Tag #120880 - Interview #87387 (Rifca Segal)

You can’t even imagine how it was in the days of the Securitate [15]. You were afraid of opening your mouth to talk. If you listened to Free Europe [16] on the radio, you piled pillows on top of the telephone so that they couldn’t listen in by any chance. People were terrified, no doubt about it. Even if you had no stain on your personal record, nothing at all, you were afraid. I am still afraid to this day, when I watch a movie on TV and if it involves guns and shooting or I don’t know what, I look away. I am easily scared by nature.