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Olympic star Nadia Comăneci was a Romanian 'hero' who defected to escape her government. What do her surveillance files reveal?

  • Written by: Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English, University of Sydney
Olympic star Nadia Comăneci was a Romanian 'hero' who defected to escape her government. What do her surveillance files reveal?Composite image of Nadia Comaneci at the Montreal Olympic Games, 1976.AP

“On the night of 27–28 November 1989,” Stejărel Olaru writes, “seven people hurriedly but warily made their way towards the frontier between Romania and Hungary.”

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