Leon Șușman

Leon Șușman was a member of the Fascist paramilitary organization Iron Guard who, after the Soviet occupation of Romania, became the leader of an armed anti-communist resistance group in the Apuseni Mountains.

To eliminate the group, the Romanian security forces used informers against them and intercepted the correspondence of family members. Some of the anticommunist armed resistance and their supporters were killed during interrogation, while other members of resistance groups were indicted in public or secret trials, and sentenced to death or prison. Death penalties were carried out either secretly, with bodies thrown into unknown common graves, or publicly in order to intimidate the local population.

A significant number of detained rebels, who had not been sentenced to death, were killed outside prisons, under unexplained circumstances.