Nicolae Mărgineanu, a teacher at the King Ferdinand I University of Cluj and a post-mortem member of the Romanian Academy, claimed that the accusations that were brought against Vulcănescu were false and that he was a victim of the Communist regime,Mărgineanu, Nicolae (1991). Amfiteatre și închisori [Amphitheatres and Prisons] as part of a larger scheme of the authorities whose aim was to slowly kill off Romanian intellectuals, especially those who opposed the regime. The political character of his conviction was confirmed by the Bucharest Tribunal in 2017.
