Aladár Szoboszlay

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Aladár Szoboszlay (Temesvár, 25 January 1925 - Timişoara, 1 September 1958) was a Roman Catholic priest in Transylvania. After the revolution of 1956, he was executed with several of his associates, following the "reorganization of the Romanian state".

Aladár Szoboszlay was born in Temesvár-Mehalai in 1925, graduated in Cluj-Napoca in 1943, and was ordained in 1948 in Timisoara. He served in Pécs at November 1952. During this time he was a member of the Peace Papacy movement. He was soon to become a chaplain in Timisoara, and there he gradually became increasingly distant from communist ideals. Szoboszlay's political views were influenced by a young mathematics teacher, Erzsébet Klára Reusz, who was a member of the Romanian Communist Party as a communist communist. Nevertheless, there was a lasting love relationship between them.

At the end of 1956 Szoboszlay began writing his Confederation, in which he expressed his views on the establishment of a joint Romanian-Hungarian confederation, based in Arad. Already in 1955, they started organizing the Confederation. The chief assistant to Szoboszlay was Klara Reusz, a Roman lawyer from Alexandria, Aint Alexandre Fîntînaru, who was assigned the task of recruiting Romanian members of the movement. It was designed to revolutionize the Hungarian Revolution at the same time in Romania. Fîntînaru contacted the anti-Communist Roman partisans hiding in Fogaras, and managed to recruit an armored colonel who had the task of leading units from Caracal to Bucharest and occupying the strategically most important buildings to which armed Szekler soldiers would join.

Szoboszlay had been involved in the organization of several Csíkszereda people, so one of the centers of the movement soon became Csíkszereda. Securitate soon became aware of the events. A man named "Iosif" announced the organizers who were involved in the preparations themselves. Securitate's men arrested the participants, and in Cluj-Napoca there was the notorious Szoboszlay lawsuit, in which 11 of the 56 accused were sentenced to death by shooting, and several were sentenced to a longer jail sentence. Finally, 10 of the 11 deaths were carried out, including Szoboszlay.

After the change of regime, Szoboszlay's sister submitted the rehabilitation request but was rejected by the court, after three years of litigation, however, in 2010 the Cluj-Napoca tribunal had waived his condemnation with his associates.