Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu

Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu (January 6, 1923 – May 1, 2006) was a member of the fascist paramilitary organization Iron Guard, who between 1948 and 1955, after the Soviet occupation of Romania and the establishment of the Romanian People's Republic, became the leader of an underground anti-communist paramilitary group in the Făgăraș Mountains.

Biography Ogoranu was born in a Greek-Catholic Romanian family as one of three children, in Gura Văii, Făgăraș County, in the Țara Făgărașului region of southeastern Transylvania. He studied at Radu Negru High School in Făgăraș, where he became a member of the local Iron Guard youth wing, a so-called "Brotherhood of the Cross" - the "Negoiu" - between 1936 and 1940. In 1940 he became the leader of the Frăția de Cruce organization in Făgăraș. In 1955, the Securitate secret police killed or captured several members of his group, either through direct conflict or through denunciations. Those captured werr trird in 1957. Ion Chiujdea, Laurian Haṣu, Gheorghe Haṣu, Victor Metea, Nelu Novac, Ion Pop, Olimpiu Borzea, and Nicolae Burlacu were sentenced to death by firing squad; the last two had their sentences commuted to forced labor for life. After 26 years on the run, the Securitate caught him in 1976 in Cluj, after luring him there with the help of an informer. He was interrogated for 6 months in Bucharest. He was reportedly spared execution at the direct intervention of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Released, he was employed as a worker, then as a technician at a collective state farm in Miercurea Sibiului. his wife died two months later. which demanded that the film be pulled due to glorification of antisemitism. The Festival refused to pull it, arguing that they don't believe in censorship, but they are aware that Ogoranu made publicly "extremist, racist, and antidemocratic statements" and that they do not support such views, and that the movie did not support such views either. and Făgăraș are named after him.