Repression and freedom. Anti-communist resistance reflected in the pages of „Românul liber” newspaper

In the climate of communist repression in Romania in the 1980s, Ion Rațiu published a newspaper in London that escaped both control and censorship in Romania. The articles published in it were intended to show what was really happening in Romania, but also to be a platform for the free expression of ideas. Both the news and reports from the country and the opinions published in the pages of Free Romanian are documentary testimonies to that period of recent history. A large part of what is reported in Free Romanian has a correspondent in the documents of the Securitate, which proves the relevance of their recording. The present study also shows that most of the acts of repression had a legal basis, i.e. they were covered by the legislation of the communist state. The conclusion is that the democratic Romanian press in exile played a decisive role in communicating the realities of communist Romania outside its borders. It also communicated the royal messages.