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Pitesti: Romania’s Communist Nightmare of Re-Education and Torture

A barbaric experiment in a Romanian prison saw inmates subjected to horrific torture, forced betrayals, and psychological destruction.

Recent events in Romania, including the cancellation of elections, have filled social networks with comments about the country’s recent past, back to the days when the Iron Curtain fell over Eastern Europe.

During World War II, the Soviets used Pavlov’s conditioned reflex theories to train their bomb dogs. The animals were starved for several days and then fed under a tank with the engine running, so that the dog associated the noise of the engine with food. Once under the tank, where there is less armour, the explosive charge carried on the dog’s back was activated and destroyed both the animal and the enemy tank.

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