In everlasting tribute to their braveness and memory
During the era of communist rule, some valuable scientists underwent the rigors of this criminal and antidemocratic regime. The praise of Russian/Soviet biologists and physicians, was mandatory. Instead, e.g., the founders of genetics were denigrated and minimized. But this evil period of Romanian national history y compris its history of biology also bore witness to illustrious personalities, for their education, professionalism, patriotism, morality and culture, outspoken or implicitly opposing this regime which marked and relegated Romania to the backstage of history for five decades. These remarkable specialists and experts in various fields of biology, affirmed both nationally and most of them also internationally, suffered from persecutions in different ways, for their own anticommunist beliefs. They were prevented from practicing their profession in higher education or research, deprived of civil rights, convicted, with or without trial, sent as political prisoners, to prison or labor camps, with punishment up to death, or forced to emigrate. The National Council for the Study of the Archives of the Security has enabled access to the individual tracking files, of different durations, of Alexandru Borza (1887-1971), Constantin Motas (1887-1971), Ioan G. Botez (1892-1953), Teodor Busnitza (1900-1977, Constantin S. Antonescu (1902-1981), Zaharia Popovici (1907-?) and Victor Angelescu (1912-2002), Petre T. Banarescu (1921-2009), Nicolae A. Boscaiu (1925-2009), Denis Buican (1936). This contribution, based on CNSAS archival research with the consent of those alive and/or of their descendants, is dedicated in memoriam to above named Romanian outstanding anticommunist biologists, as memento to their undeserved professional, family and private sufferings, humiliations and unfulfillments because of the repressive regime.