This I remember - dad often brought forbidden press in Polish & English, sometimes sewn inside his jacket, we all were reading forbidden books passionately. Yes - CIA helped then. Perhaps now it is a time to return the favour: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
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theguardian.com
‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism
From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature