Mugur Călinescu s name will forever remain in
the history of heroism as a man s struggle with a cruel, much stronger enemy
but which did not frighten him. He is not only a Romanian hero, but also a
universal example for all the people who fight for the right cause of freedom
and dignity. Eventually, MugurCălinescu paid with his life for the
courage to think and act for justice and truth.
Mugur Călinescu was born on May 28, 1965 in
Botoșani, northeastern Romania. In 1981, at 16 years old, when he was an 11th grader
at the August Treboniu Laurian high school in his hometown, he
decided that his existence and that of those around him, in a country ruled by
a vicious communist regime, could not go on like that. So he decided to
protest. Călinescu s moving story was told publicly in the early 1990s, in the
early years of freedom regained in December 1989, by the journalist, writer and
historian Constantin Iftime. Here he is at the microphone with details: