Schuylkill County Historical Society
Dead Run: A Memoir of Escape from Communist Romania to Freedom - B117
Dead Run: A Memoir of Escape from Communist Romania to Freedom - B117
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Radu Olimpiu Gherghel was born in the city of Timisoara, Romania, in 1943 during a difficult time in his native country's history. Once a free and sovereign nation, Romania then found itself in the grips of a foe far stronger, more able to destroy the country of his birth Communism. As the social, economic, political, and governmental structures of Eastern European countries encountered whirlwind changes, free sovereign states were dominated and forced into the Soviet Bloc of nations.