As a scholar with long stages in Western laboratories, Horia Hulubei was confronted with harassment and pressure from sycophants supported by political police (Securitate) of the communist regime in the post-WWII Romanian Socialist Republic; actually, any connection with Western institutions, even the purely scientific ones, were used as a pretext for persecution, sometimes very severe, of undesirable person. An episode of this dangerous game, affecting Hulubei’s activity and position, is described in a recent study, authored by Dr. Petre Opriş, issued on ‘contributors.ro’ platform:
