Re-Membering Codreanu: Undermining Fascist Masculinities in Aiud Prison, 1964

Clark, RC ORCID: 0000-0003-3292-282X (2017) Re-Membering Codreanu: Undermining Fascist Masculinities in Aiud Prison, 1964. Caietele CNSAS, 8 (2). pp. 181-215.

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Abstract

A group of 105 inmates at Romania’s Aiud prison produced a collective memoir in 1964 entitled On the Legionary Organization: Mysticism, Massacres, Betrayal. In it, they retold the history of the Legion of the Archangel Michael, a fascist movement these men had been imprisoned for allegedly supporting. They wrote this two-volume memoir as part of their “reeducation” before being released into Romanian society, which was now under communist rule. Unlike most –isms, fascism had no creedal or doctrinal statements that prisoners could recant in order to demonstrate that they had turned their backs on the movement. Instead, they systematically slandered themselves and other former activists, arguing that they had never truly exhibited virtues that legionaries believed had defined fascism in Romania. On the Legionary Movement dwells at length on sexual deviancy, superstition, hypocrisy, betrayal, and violence as key characteristics of Romanian fascism from 1922 until 1964 and praises the brutal prison system as the only way that the social ills of fascism could be remedied.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Reeducation, Prison, Fascism, Memory, Masculinity
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	24 Oct 2017 10:13
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 06:52
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3010763