Tag #123786 - Interview #78460 (Isac Tinichigiu)

By the 1960s I had long left behind communism and I no longer believed in it, because I had found out some terrible things. For example, I was never told clearly that having a sister in Israel wasn’t approved by my bosses. One day I was summoned and questioned about it; I told the truth, said that she, Sabina, came to visit, but that was all, that we weren’t very close. They said they didn’t want Jews in high positions who had relatives in Israel, and I replied: ‘Fine! Fire me!’ And I slammed the door behind me. But they didn’t fire me because my work was very hard and they couldn’t replace me. I was in charge of contracts between co-operative farms and the state. You had to know a lot about the real state of farms, you had to know the law, and to be firm at the same time.