‘Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police’ by historian Stejarel Olaru which details how the Securitate communist secret police kept tabs on Romania’s global gymnastics star has won the silver medal in the world history category at the 2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards. First published in Romanian as ‘Nadia si Securitatea’ in 2021, it  was later … Continuă lectura Book on how Romania’s Securitate secret police spied on gymnast Nadia Comaneci wins silver medal in the U.S.