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Gheorghe I. Brătianu

1898 – 1953

About

He was a Romanian politician and historian. A member of the Brătianu family and initially affiliated with the National Liberal Party, he broke away from the movement to create and lead the National Liberal Party-Brătianu. On the night of 5/6 May 1950, he was arrested by the security forces and imprisoned in the Sighet Prison, being detained for almost three years, without being judged and convicted. He died in prison, at the age of 55,[25] under the circumstances that still unexplained. In 1971, the family was allowed to dig him up from the Sighet Cemetery and bury him in the tomb of the Bratians from Ștefănești, Argeș County.