A big difference and what hurt the most about this type of archives was that the powers that be mostly collected their data on you based on your close friends/w

A big difference and what hurt the most about this type of archives was that the powers that be mostly collected their data on you based on your close friends/work colleagues. I was too young to have any Securitate records (I was 9 when the regime fell in '89) but I'm pretty sure both my parents have records in there. I wouldn't want to check them if I were to be in their shoes because I wouldn't want to know who of my friends or close work colleagues betrayed me to the Securitate.