It is well known that the socio-cultural environment can have a decisive influence on the process of setting the aspiration level and shaping the attitude towards success or failure. In the communist countries a change in the social status of those with good social backgrounds was achieved as beneficiaries of the affirmative action program (promoting young workers and peasants towards higher education and elite professions). In this communication, we propose to present a model of self-realization of the Communist Romanian Securitate officer. For the vast majority of the Securitate officers, the professional career was not the result of a vocational choice, but of an instrumental or imposed (in the case of recruited cadres from the party activists). As for the creation act, I.A. Taylor sets out two criteria: the economic, social, cultural and scientific significance of creative performance, doubled by social recognition. For each individual, the profession is one of the relevant dimensions of the socially integrated personality. The exercise of the profession is established as a powerful motivational vector, without which the existence of the individual is – in large part – meaningless and meaningless. Social recognition, as well as the level of self-esteem, depend to a large extent on professional performance recognized by others. Through loyalty to the regime, the Securitate officers drew their fear, contempt and ultimately the hatred of the citizens, resulting in a false model of self-realization.