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Hedwig Ulrike Ruşdea, muzeograf şi etnograf al Muzeului Tehnicii Populare, a întreprins începând cu anul 1964 până la sfârşitul anilor 1970 numeroase cercetări de teren privind tehnica morilor de vânt din Dobrogea, precum şi a istoriei şi rolului lor în comunităţile rurale din această regiune a ţării. În acest dosar, Hedwig Ruşdea a adunat schiţe tehnice ale morilor cercetate, fişe privind istoria artefactelor, interviuri cu foştii proprietari (consideraţi de regimul comunist ca fiind foşti chiaburi), observaţii privind rolul economic şi social al morilor de vânt, analize ale evoluţiei lor numerice şi fotografii cu piesele salvate din satele Enisala, Dunavăţ, Frecăţei şi Mahmudia din Dobrogea. Dosarul reprezintă astăzi o sursă istorică valoroasă privind istoria patrimoniului cultural din Dobrogea. Documentele conținute reflectă argumentele care au stat la baza deciziei conducerii Muzeul Tehnicii Populare de a salva şi reasambla, în expoziţia permanentă din aer liber a muzeului din împrejurimile Sibiului, cele patru mori care fac obiectul acestui dosar și se numără printre cele cinci recuperate în urma cercetărilor întreprinse de Ruşdea în Dobrogea.

He estimates that, he was called before the Cultural Committee of the League of Communist Youth of Vojvodina at least twice per year, which he considered to be tyrannical. “These people lack a fundamental understanding of what I’m doing. There are exceptional analytical texts that address certain phenomena: death, literature, irony, postmodernism…those various qualities within modern society and culture that expose a new reality and that introduce new questions to our culture. So what do they do? They file a forty page report. Should I kill myself over it? I sit there instead, forced to listen to this nonsense, and worry that I’ll be replaced. And they all continue on, with business-minded faces, going through papers and discussing them as if it were the last judgement of the Provincial Youth Alliance. (…) The people of the party who oversee everything came from the PC (Provincial Commune of the League of Communists of Vojvodina, cf. Aut). I was a young man then. And the Youth Union was assigned to eradicate not just me, but the entire editorial board.”Among the various forms of persecution, Zivlak also noted that every day for two months, a police officer required him to identify himself before entering the editorial office. Jovan Zivlak is forthright about psycho-somatic problems that he developed because of these pressures. He speculates that the only reason he remained  editor-in-chief of Polja for eight years was because Novi Sad lacked the media to carry out a personal attack on him.

A short decision of Socialist Republic of Croatia's Secretariat of the Interior on deleting SCA Prosvjeta from the Register of associations of citizens on the grounds that since January 1972 there was no activity of the Association and that it "does not achieve the objectives for which it was established." It also said that there was "no appeal” against the decision but an administrative dispute before the Administrative Court could have been initiated. Along the decision secretary of SCA Prosvjeta, Svetozar Zec has written a note stating that SCA Prosvjeta was banned in December 1972, that formal decision on the ban hasn’t been issued, but the attitude of the leadership of the socio-political organizations of SRC fully prevented any public operation of the Association.