‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism

www.theguardian.com

‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism

www.theguardian.com

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Excellent ReadsEnglish · 14 hours ago

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

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