Nicolae Carandino

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Nicolae Carandino (19 July 1905 – 16 February 1996) was a Romanian journalist, pamphleteer, translator, dramatist, and politician.

He was born in

left-wing publication run by N. D. Cocea), and a collaborator or editor at various other publications, including Credința, Reporter, Azi
, and Floarea de Foc. Between 1938 and 1944, he served as Vice-President of the Journalists' Union.

During

Legionnaires' Rebellion, Carandino became director of the National Theatre Bucharest, replacing Haig Acterian (who had been arrested for his Iron Guard membership). Because of his opposition to the authoritarian regime of Ion Antonescu, he was imprisoned in 1942 in a penitentiary camp near Târgu Jiu
.

A member of the

far right regimes from the press (the committee was dominated by Romanian Communist Party members, and presided over by Emil Socor).[2]

Carandino was one of the four politicians who were part of the National Peasants' Party leadership designated by party leader

civil rights, his property was confiscated and he had to pay 1,000 lei in court fees. He was incarcerated at Galați Prison and at the notorious Sighet Prison, and then sent under forced domicile in the Bărăgan Plain, in the villages Bumbăcari and Rubla, being freed only in 1964.[3][4]

After the

communist regime
, when Dreptatea resumed publication in 1990, he became its honorary director. That year, he was also made honorary member of the revived National Peasants' Party.

Carandino, who was a gifted columnist, relates an interesting anecdote in his memoirs: a young man reproached Carandino for not helping him; he replied: "I can help someone, but I can't replace him." He added, "I'm an old man now; going down the road of life I can see the end. When I turn back and look, I wonder why, if my own future is brief, others aren't coming up the road? Where are those who ought to be coming?"[5]

He died at Hospital nr. 10 "Sf. Sava" in Bucharest. After a service at Boteanu Church [ro], he was buried in Străulești Cemetery on February 21, 1996.

Writings

  • Carandino, Nicolae (1979). De la o zi la alta: memorii (in Romanian). București:
    OCLC 6089484
    .
  • Carandino, Nicolae (2017). Nopți albe și zile negre: memorii din închisorile și lagărele comuniste (in Romanian). Paul Lăzărescu, Andrea Dobeș. București: Fundația Academia Civică.
    OCLC 1048358057
    .

References

  1. ^ C. Stănescu (September 1, 2011). "O bomba cu explozie intârziata". Revista Cultura (in Romanian). Retrieved October 9, 2022.
  2. ^ Diac, Cristina (August 18, 2007). "Comunism – Artiști și ziariști în febra epurărilor" [Communism – Artists and Journalists in the Fever of Purges]. Jurnalul Național (in Romanian). Retrieved October 16, 2022.
  3. ^ "N. Carandino: Treptat, urma să înțeleg esența închisorii la care eram supus. Celula nu însemna o cameră închisă în care să aștept liniștit curgerea timpului prescris. Celula era o minusculă cetate, asediată de un inamic" (in Romanian). Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance. 22 January 2019. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
  4. ^ Stănilă, Ionela (May 4, 2021). "Chinul deportării. Nicolae Carandino: Casele semănau între ele (...). În fiecare sta ascunsă o tragedie". Adevărul (in Romanian). Retrieved October 16, 2022.
  5. ^ "Cosmopolitan în România". Archived from the original on 2007-03-12. Retrieved 2006-09-24.

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