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A thoughtcriminal speaks
« on: December 09, 2016, 02:08:29 pm »
December 9, 2016
A thought criminal speaks
By Thomas Lifson

Oleg Atbashian, the gifted satirist and artist who founded The People’s Cube, has written a classic essay that deserves the widest possible circulation. How I Became a Thoughtcriminal is a personal account of growing up in the Soviet Union and discovering censorship, leaving it behind, and rediscovering it here.  This is chapter one of the story:

    Since my grandfather was Polish, we had a Polish dictionary and a language manual in the family library. Polish is also close enough to my native Russian and Ukrainian, so with some practice I was able to read Polish magazines, which were more interesting than the Soviet ones.


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Re: A thoughtcriminal speaks
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2016, 03:06:37 pm »
For later.