Kasia MolgaThis I remember very well from my childhood. My Dad was bringing print outs on crap paper in Polish and English, sometimes sewn inside his jacket, we all were reading forbidden books passionately. Yes - CIA helped. Perhaps now it is a time to return the favour: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/22/it-allowed-us-to-survive-to-not-go-mad-the-cia-book-smuggling-operation-that-helped-bring-down-communism
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#coldwar #forbiddenboos #politics #internationalpolitics #usa
‘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