Let not the reader imagine that there has been any change in the Beasts of
the Apocalypse or any "mellowing" or "relaxation" of their
sadism in Romania or any other country they have captured. In Romania, when the
extraordinarily severe floods began in May, 1970, the Communist Ministry of the
Interior ordered the directors and staffs of the prisons at Aiud and Gherla to
abandon them after having locked the prisoners in their cells. How many
Romanians were thus disposed of at Aiud has not been learned, but at Gherla 600
helpless men watched the waters slowly rise in their cells and were eventually
drowned.