Memories – Testimonies

Brigadier General Mircea Vasilescu

In December 1989 I held the position of deputy to the commander of the large unit deployed in the Brăila garrison, but I had my first contact with General Guşă Ştefan in the spring of 1990, when I was appointed chief of staff at the services of the 2nd Army, deployed in the Buzău garrison.

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Brigadier General (Reserve) Bercea Ioan

I met Ştefan Guşă in 1972 when I was called to Cluj by the late General Vasile Milea, who informed me that I would be transferred to the command of the 4th Army, and Major Ştefan Guşă would come in my place. Then we both got into the car and came to Turda.

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Platoon Adjutant (Reserve) Gheorghe Călătoaie

In March 1990 I was informed by my superiors that I had been appointed driver of the commander of the 2nd Army. The surprise was not too big because I had already worked in this position with other generals.

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Brigadier General (r.) Liviu Chiriliuc

I met General Ştefan Guşă in 1974 when his appointed as Commander of the 6th Tank Regiment, while at the time I held the position of Chief of Staff of the 6th Tank Division.

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Lieutenant Colonel Mazzo Ottaviano

One afternoon in the spring of this year (2002), I wanted to contact by telephone Mrs. Veronica Gușă de Drăgan, who was at her home in the village of Spataru.

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Colonel (reserve) Gheorghe Crețu

I met Officer Ştefan Guşă when I still held the rank of lieutenant or perhaps lieutenant major. I don't remember well the circumstances that made it possible, but I know that his ambition, seriousness, altruism, and winning mentality made a particular impression on me, which gave him a certain aura of a "leader".

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Col. (r) CHRISTEA IOAN

I have known General Ştefan Guşă since he was appointed CDT. R.6 Tanks of the 6th TC Division. HCC - Mr. Mures. The first impressions he made were surprising.

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Major General (reserve) Dândăreanu Ion

The initiative of the "General Ştefan Guşă" Foundation to draw up and curate a documentary fund, referring to the personality of General Ştefan Guşă, known as a commander, great statesman, why not, thinker and military master and, last but not least, a great patriot, whose name is associated with the high degree of...

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Colonel (reserve) Anghel Dobre

I got to know General Guşă Ştefan closely, a soldier among soldiers, a man dedicated body and soul to his military career, he stood out from school as a hard-working, orderly, persevering student, in love with his work, but above all with tanks - a fact that led him to perfect his knowledge and skills, later becoming a tank and automotive engineer.

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Army General (Reserve) Marin Dragnea

I have known Ştefan Guşă since 1970, when, after graduating from the Military Technical Academy, he was appointed commander of the Turda tank regiment, a unique event in the post-war Romanian army, since a young military engineer was directly appointed to such a position of great responsibility.

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Brigadier General (Reserve) Ilie Dragomir

Without any doubt, General Ştefan Guşă is one of the most important Romanian military personalities of the 20th century in terms of the conscience of the Romanian officer in general.

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Colonel (reserve) Vasile Dumitraşcu

Reflecting on these thoughts about the great soldier of the Romanian army, General Ștefan Gușă, I feel a feeling of bitterness, of deep sadness: this man had to live, he had the right to enjoy life, to enjoy its fruits that he had acquired through work, honor, and correctness.

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Colonel Gheorghe Feraru

It is a great joy and an honor for me to respond to your invitation, I do so with great pleasure, naturally respecting certain proportions of civic decency and military courtesy, considering the relationship existing at that time between General Ştefan Guşă and Major Gh. Feraru.

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Colonel (reserve) engineer Vasile Ferent

I met Lieutenant (future general) Ştefan Guşă in September 1962, when, after graduating from the "Ştefan cel Mare" military high school, I had the opportunity to be assigned to the platoon of students he commanded within the Pitesti Higher Military School Tank and automotive officers.

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Colonel (Reserve) Dr. Ion Ganea

I was fortunate to know General Ştefan Guşă directly from 1965-1967; after serving for several years as a platoon and student company commander, he was promoted to instructor at the "Mihai Viteazul" Military School for Tank and Automotive Officers in Pitesti, graduating with a diploma of merit in 1960.

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Colonel Gheorghe Mihai

I am a colonel in the Romanian army, about to retire, which is why nostalgic memories become a way of living a spiritual life. The sentimental beginnings with which one approaches such memories, at this age, are suspected of ideational imaginations, confusion, and affective and fable-like exaggerations in the description of events. I try to free myself from these subjective slips to approach a sensitive, delicate, and beautiful topic. "The personality of the Lord General of the Division Gușă Ştefan, from the point of view of a subordinate"

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Colonel (reserve) engineer Teodor Ghiţescu

My first memories date back to the time when we were preparing for the career of active officers, in the Military School of Tanks and Automobiles in Pitesti. I was a student in the automatic weapon, and he was a "battalion platoon student" in the tank weapon, a year ahead of me. The deputy for education and then commandant of the school was Colonel Milea Vasile, future Minister of National Defense and hero of the December 1989 Revolution.

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Ion Nicoara

1. I met Ştefan Guşă because he lived on the same floor as me in the same block.
2. From the first words exchanged, I understood that he is a special, intelligent, sociable, and very profound man.
3. All the impressions I made along the way turned out to be real

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GL. Lieutenant Oprea Nicolae

During the time I worked in Oradea, I periodically carried out training courses in the Cincu area in Brasov County; as a rule, here we "compare" the units of Turda, Tg.-Mureş. Sometimes we won, sometimes we lost. Victory or the enemy did not depend only on us (meaning those in charge of the technique), but on the leadership of the units we were part of, in this case on the justice of the decisions they made.

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Colonel (reserve) Ion Oţelea

In the fall of 1962, I met Lieutenant Ştefan Guşă, commander of the 1st Tank Platoon, Tank and Car Officers Higher School, as a first-year student of this special military educational institution. On the training ground, I was particularly struck by the voice of one who was on his way to an exceptional military career, of one who profitably involved himself in the destinies of the entire nation.

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Brigadier General Stan Petrescu

I met General Guşă Ştefan from 1985-1986, occasionally, in the courtyard of the Military Academy. I was on a German language course and her ladyship had been invited to participate in some ongoing educational activities.

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Colonel (r.) Radu Niculae

I met Ştefan Guşă in November 1957, when we were enrolled as first-year students at the Pitesti Tank and Auto Military School of Active Officers. We were among the youngest in school, both of us having just turned 17.

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Colonel (reserve) engineer Ion Savu

I met Ştefan Guşă in 1968, at the meeting in the Military Academy Hall with the heads of the study groups of the combined weapons and technical faculties of the Academy. At this meeting, the events taking place in Czechoslovakia and the political-military position of our country concerning these events were presented. We both had the rank of captain; we were in the same year of studies, and we were group leaders. But the faculties we attended were different: he at the Technical Faculty of Tanks and Automobiles, and I at the Faculty of Radioelectronics.

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Major General (r.) Ion Scrieciu

In the period 1972-1980, I commanded the 6th TC Division. "NCC" with coverage on the news. Mures. During this period, he carried out his activity within the Gen. Gozzo Stefan division. In the period 1972-1976, Major Guşă Ştefan served as commander of the 6th Tc Regiment. On August 23, 1976, for good and excellent results, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. colonel.

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Colonel (reserve) engineer Şerban Ion

I met him in the autumn of 1957, after our admission to the Military School for Tank Officers and Motorists in Pitesti. We were students gathered from every corner of the country, a mass of anonymous people fearful of what the military institution represented, in fact, but also our imagination.

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General (reserve) Niculae Spiroiu

I met the future general Ştefan Guşă in October 1957. We had passed the entrance exam and started the first-year courses at the Military School for Tank Officers and Motorists in Pitesti. I in the specialty "automotive technical officers", and Ştefan in "tank command officers", tactics, as they were called to distinguish them from us technicians. I come from Bucharest, where I graduated from "Mihai Viteazul" High School.

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Col. (r) Stan Ioan

In the summer of 1957, together with my good friend Cîmpean Mircea, both from Bistriţi, we decided to enroll in the entrance exam to the Military School of Tanks and Automobiles in Pitesti. The exam took place in the former B. de Tancuri barracks in Trivale, an otherwise picturesque place, but our "accommodation" was in the old lounges, where more than 100 candidates were housed in a so-called "dormitory".

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Colonel Ion Teodorescu

I officially met him in 1972 when he was introduced to the staff (U.M. 01291) R.6Tc. by General Milea, as the first engineer officer appointed to command a military tank unit of the Romanian Army. The best and closest acquaintance, I can say friendly, was had over time, both during professional activities and in the family environment.

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Colonel Prof. univ. Dr. Giorgio Tomà

Born in the lands of Buzoian, in the beautiful municipality of Spătaru, on April 17, 1940, the future general Ştefan Guşă heard, as a child, a series of stories about the historical events that took place in his native lands. He was Gheorghe's son, a solid man, a good storyteller, with increasingly interesting memories. The mother, Maria, who could barely decipher the letters by hammering them over the alphabet with the children, was an unsurpassed housewife: she spun, weaved, and sewed particularly beautiful towels and shirts, true jewels of peasant life. Both baptized their son with the name of Saint Stephen, who will rise with his own merits to the top of the hierarchy of the Romanian army.

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Engineer Colonel Ştefan Toma

It is very difficult to write about a man you have loved, appreciated, and lost... When I put pen to paper to write about him, memories flood me, agitate me, and move me. I have to talk about my university colleague, General Ştefan Guşă, the man who gave color, meaning, and value to my degree.

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Lieutenant General (reserve) Dr. Iulian Topliceanu

When you want to sketch the life of a character it's quite difficult, but it's even more difficult when you have to collect the memories of someone who was your collaborator and friend. At the same time, it is very complicated to define the personality of General Ştefan Guşă, because the History of Romania included him in a very complex activity, appreciated by most who knew him closely, but also controversial by some (few).

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Colonel Dr. Vasile Tutulea

I met General Ştefan Guşă in at least fifteen to twenty sequences, at the 2nd Tank Regiment (Târgu-Mureş), 6th Tank Division "Horea, Cloşca and Crişan" (Târgu-Mureş), at the 4th Army Command "Transilvania" ( in 1990, when he returned from Bucharest, demoted from the position of Chief of the General Staff), to the position of Chief of the General Staff of the 4th Army (Cluj-Napoca), where he worked for some time, after which he was transferred to position of commander of the 2nd Buzau Army.

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YEAR XVI 8 April 2006 (Reunification of Romania - confessions, documents) - BUCHAREST 1999
On December 22, I was heading to Televiziune, when Liviu Petrina and Aurel Dragos Munteanu met me nearby. I told them I would enter the building. They asked me if I could get yours too. I was in the middle of a crowd of young people. Some groups of soldiers were in front of us. There were some difficulties getting into the building.

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