On the other hand, Surrealism has been a part of Romanian literature since forever. Even before Tzara, who was originally Romanian, we had Urmuz, who was a surrealist before the term even existed. During Breton's era too, there was a very active Romanian Surrealist group (Ghérasim Luca, Gellu Naum, etc. ) closely related to the French. They had to quit their activities as soon as the Soviet communists took over.
You may have read that I went to M. I. T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.