Parallel libraries of the former Securitate. Ana Blandiana, ('Events from my street")

The present article aims to reveal the measures that the former Securitate -- Agency for National Security during communism in Romania -- took against potentially subversive texts. The archives of Securitate offer a second contextualization of Romanian literature under communism. Intellectuals, and mainly writers, were always perceived by the communist regime as a potential danger towards national safety. Therefore, the intellectual elite never seized to be monitored, manipulated, or sanctioned, accordingly to their attitude regarding the communist ideology. A case of such sanctioning is Ana Blandiana, whose children's book 'Intamplari de pe strada mea' was denounced as anti-political and withdrawn from the public circuit.