Sighet prison, now a museum in Romania, functioned as a prison for political dissidents, a place of extermination for the country's elites and at the

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Sighet prison, now a museum in Romania, functioned as a prison for political dissidents, a place of extermination for the country's elites and at the same time a safe place, not possible to escape from, the frontier of the Soviet Union being less than two kilometers away.

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Location: Romania
Photo credit: © Dan Totilca / Alamy / Afripics
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