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"A great Romanian classicist persecuted by the communist regime."
…Professor David Popescu, the translator of Aulus Gellius, removed from education as early as 1947, in accordance with the requirements of NKVD Ordinance, Moscow 2-06-1947, (Strictly secret), K-AA/CC 113, Directive KN/003/47, transmitted to the Party authorities in the country.
(“From primary schools, specialist schools, but above all from lycées and universities, distinguished professors who enjoy popularity must be removed. Their places must be filled by persons appointed by us, possessing a weak or mediocre level of training. The differences between subjects are to be analysed, the quality of documentary material is to be reduced, and in lycées the teaching of Latin and Ancient Greek, of general philosophy, of logic and of genetics is to be ceased,” our emphasis.)
Read the full article written by ȘTEFAN ION GHILIMESCU published in the journal Viața Românească în martie 2018