being in brașov prison, bodnăraș learned that he had lost romanian citizenship, being a civil servant in the soviet union. ""in brasov prison i got the ussr citizenship through an official communication made by the soviet embassy, on the basis of a request that my brother made to the embassy on my behalf. being a soviet citizen in those years was advantageous, a citizen of romania who received soviet citizenship was a person with whom it was not advisable to be violent or to beat"", explained bodnăraș personally in a stenograph in 1952.