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- Leon or Levon Kalustian, also known as Calustian (Armenian: Լևոն Գալուստեան, Levon Kalustyan; October 17, 1908 – January 24, 1990), was a Romanian journalist, essayist and memoirist. An Armenian on his father's side, he abandoned his studies to work in the interwar press, taking editorial positions at Cuvântul, Curentul, and finally . As a left-winger who ultimately joined the Social Democratic Party, he took a side in public controversies, defending the political line espoused by Nicolae Titulescu and attacking Stelian Popescu. Kalustian was allegedly a collaborator of Siguranța secret policemen, and remained close to the disgraced spy chief, Eugen Cristescu. While retiring from political journalism with the advent of a dictatorial regime, under the National Renaissance Front, he accepted various commissions from the Front, and was employed by its official newspaper România. Identified as an enemy by the communist regime, which took over in 1948, Kalustian was detained without trial for some four years, and did penal labor as a steel fixer. He was then again arrested, and sentenced, for having kept and sold books banned by state censorship. Ultimately released in 1964, Kalustian was allowed to publish again from 1966. He was still exposed to acts of persecution and to constant surveillance by the Securitate, and harassed into becoming its informant. From the late 1970s, Flacăra magazine hosted his regular columns, leading both the public and the regime to rediscover him as a progressive author. Despite this take, Kalustian networked with anti-communists such as Nicolae Carandino and Corneliu Coposu, both predicting and working toward the eventual fall of communism. He lived to witness the Romanian Revolution of 1989, dying a month later in his native town of Focșani. (en)
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- Leon or Levon Kalustian, also known as Calustian (Armenian: Լևոն Գալուստեան, Levon Kalustyan; October 17, 1908 – January 24, 1990), was a Romanian journalist, essayist and memoirist. An Armenian on his father's side, he abandoned his studies to work in the interwar press, taking editorial positions at Cuvântul, Curentul, and finally . As a left-winger who ultimately joined the Social Democratic Party, he took a side in public controversies, defending the political line espoused by Nicolae Titulescu and attacking Stelian Popescu. Kalustian was allegedly a collaborator of Siguranța secret policemen, and remained close to the disgraced spy chief, Eugen Cristescu. While retiring from political journalism with the advent of a dictatorial regime, under the National Renaissance Front, he accepted (en)
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