6 July to 1 August 2010

The Ratiu Foundation / Romanian Cultural Centre, Manchester Square, 18 Fitzhardinge Street, London W1H 6EQ; Tel. 020 7486 0295 ext. 108; e-mail: bookings@romanianculturalcentre.org.uk. Free admission. Opening times: Mon-Fri, 12.00-18.00. Booking essential, by phone or e-mail. Please mention the name of the event in the subject line.
Private View on Tuesday 6 July 2010.

The public will have the chance to see for the first time in Britain images and documents coming straight from the archives of the feared Securitate, the Romanian secret police, about the anti-communist resistance group led by Toma Arnautoiu. After the fall of the communist regime in December 1989, these archives have been kept shut for a long time, with limited access, until the establishment of a special commission to oversee it, in 1999.

Armed resistance to communism in Romania is little known, even in Romania, and this exhibition gives the lie to the propaganda myth that communism was embraced with joy by everybody in Eastern Europe.