In the 80, the intrusion of the scientific socialism in the gymnasium was achieved in two manners. The first was by organizing meetings of political briefing, whose bibliography was the newspaper ? Scanteia?. The second manner was the pioneers? competition. The prizes went to those who knew the rules of the ? National Organization of the Pioneers? by heart. Those who received these prizes were awarded trips whose programs included boring discourses about the socialist doctrine.

The real presence of the scientific socialism manifested itself at universities, the Faculty of the Technology or the Faculty of History and the Faculty of Philosophy; all the students were forced to study Marx and material dialectics.

In the Romanian schools in the 80, the meetings of political briefing were mainly thought as a viable manner to prepare ? the new man? to deal with a deeply politicized society and secondly as an attempt to familiarize the pupil with the ? wooden language? and the fabricated realities, this society announced. (11)

Securitate was following us everywhere and we, the common people, had to choose our words carefully. I had serious trouble because of some words I shouldn?t have said.

I was already working, it my first year as a nurse at a children hospital and I had a younger sister. The teacher had asked them to write a composition about a trip they had made two weeks before at Poiana Narciselor. She asked them to talk about some other beautiful spot in the country where they had been. I tried to help my sister. I had been to Zarandul Region, I wrote about that place, saying that it was ? a piece of Heaven, blessed by God?. I made a reference to an old popular poem: ? Our mountains are full of gold/but we have to beg from gate to gate?. I also wrote about the poverty I had seen in Moldavia, near Iasi (which I knew quite well because I had graduated there) where there were ? poor little houses, painted in blue?. I made a comparison between the poverty and the beauty of that area. On three pages I wrote a very beautiful composition.