A chilling Romanian exhibition replays videotaped secret police interrogations from 1989
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A video from the Communist era secret police surveillance archives, seen through a pinhole, shows Anton Uncu sitting on a metal bed, a day before the opening of the "A.REST 1989 The Securitate Video Archive" exhibition, at the National History Museum of Romania, in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)A man copies transcripts from Communist era surveillance tapes during the opening of the "A.REST 1989 The Securitate Video Archive" exhibition, at the National History Museum of Romania, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)Oana Demetriade, historian at the National Council for Studying the Securitate Archives (CNSAS), puts the final touches in a replica of a Securitate prison cell, a day before the opening of the "A.REST 1989 The Securitate Video Archive" exhibition, at the National History Museum of Romania, in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)Cornel Constantin Ilie, manager of the National History Museum of Romania looks at a display during the opening of the "A.REST 1989 The Securitate Video Archive" exhibition, at the National History Museum of Romania, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)Journalist Petre Mihai Bacanu stands next to a clandestine printing press, belonging to him that was confiscated by the secret police in early 1989, during the opening of the "A.REST 1989 The Securitate Video Archive" exhibition, at the National History Museum of Romania, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
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A video from the Communist era secret police surveillance archives, seen through a pinhole, shows Anton Uncu sitting on a metal bed, a day before the opening of the "A.REST 1989 The Securitate Video Archive" exhibition, at the National History Museum of Romania, in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)