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necessary „either to give up completely to their printing, or to make in part changes of
structure”. In all the cases, we are told, before being discussed and solved with the
editorial office, that „the observations have been presented to the regional committees
of The Romanian Communist Party, for monitoring”. The problematic articles, whose
solution interested first of all the guidance forums, were pointed out to the local organs
of the party, these deciding „if they can appear in the initial form or with
modifications” 8 .
As we can see, this part of the paper reveals on one hand the fate of the so-called
„wrong” materials, and on the other hand, aspects related to the work of control and
procedure/subordination. We get the idea that those who made the control/the reading had
the necessary experience, if they „sensed” (i.e. discovered) the majority of the materials,
which, on the other hand, makes us think that existed also „leaks”. As for the
procedure/subordination part, we find out that the observations were, first, presented to
the regional committees of the party for monitoring, and then discussed and solved with
the publising houses; those that interested the superior organs of the party were presented
to the local organs of the Romanian Communist Party, who decided if those can appear in
the initial form or woth modifications.
After this general part, the paper deals with concrete cases, for each category of the
presented problems. We shall also show the most significant cases. From the first
category, the first because contains many cases, who were also very serious, is that of the
materials that presented „a distorted image” of our realities. It was said, that „starting
from the deficiencies of different fields of activity”, from „some singular actions”, some
authors were „exaggerating, giving them a critic, general and denigration note”, putting
unprincipled relations, negative practices on the social relations who would generate
them. So, it was recognised the existence of some „minuses” and of some „actions”, even
if „singular”, but also considered that some evil-minded authors were augmenting them,
criticizing them in general, denigrating them, or worse, putting them on the social
relations (therefore, socialists). A first example is offered by the pamphlet of Traian
Cosovei The Deratization Project 9 . In his vision, our world had to be „desinfected” by the
rats (in the pamphlet, the rats were the people, good and evil, grouped and labeled after
their professions, characters, characteristics). „Small rats, middle rats, big rats, perched
rats..., rats with nephews..., rats with big mouth, ...rats playing in a gear with millions of
wheels..., rats-all-in-its-turn” 10 .
Amplifying the criticism from the particular, isolated case to a general one, and then
denigration was considered evident also in the pamphlet Zoodidactic by George
Mihaescu 11 . Satirizing the abusive way of obtaining study certificates by some with high
positions, unadvised regarding culture, outdated by the events and impelled by the daily
demands of life, the author transfers as in a fable his opinion, in the fate of a common
dunkey. This, in the past, had a raw live, working for masters, having no food or drinks,
and nowadays becomes a Grand Old Man. Instead of enjoying that he is „the ruler of a
yard and eats alone from the big rack”, he hasn’t any peace, because the pensioners
gossip „he’s a fool dunkey and the duties go wrong, from this reason”. He finds the
8 Ibidem, file 2.
9 Was going to appear in the magazine Tomis (Constanta), no. 4, April 1967.
10 AN-SJBH, fund DGPT-UO, folder 9/1967, file 2.
11 Was supposed to appear in the no. 10/October 1967 of the same magazine Tomis.