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the publication to be stopped. The publishers were allowed to dispute the Ministry decision in the courts. Newspapers were allowed to indicate that they were subject to censorship by publishing blank spaces. It was common for publishers to skirt the law, for example by delaying the sending of the first copy of a book to the Ministry, which meant that many controversial books were sold in the bookstores before the Ministry censors made their decision. The
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revisions in 1984 and 1989. Communist era censorship targeted topics associated  with Soviet repression against Polish citizens, works critical of communism or labeled as subversive, and much of the contemporary émigré literature. As elsewhere in the Soviet Bloc, the censorship was seen as enforcing the party line of the communist party.
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The censorship law was eliminated after the fall of communism in Poland, by the Polish Sejm on 11 April 1990 and the GUKPiW was closed two months later. The closing of the GUKPiW has been described as "the formal and legal fact of lifting censorship " and the year 1990 has been said to have seen the
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of 1935 did not discuss the freedom of press issue, which has been seen as a step backwards in the issues related to censorship, and a Press Law decree of 1938 introduced a provision which allowed Ministry of Internal Affairs to prevent the distribution of foreign titles. 1939 saw the controversial
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in 1944. Censorship affected all forms of media: print, television, radio and all kinds of performances. All publications and spectacles had to receive prior approval from GUKPiW, and it also had the right to annul any media publishing or broadcasting licenses. The press laws were subject to major
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of 1926 censorship targeting opposition press and publications intensified. In practice, Second Polish Republic has been described as having "mild censorship". The censorship was carried by the Ministry of Interior. Printing presses had to provide an advance copy to the Ministry, which could order
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Censorship at first targeted books that were considered to be "serious", including scientific and educational texts and texts that were thought to promote Polish patriotism; only fiction that was free of anti-German overtones was permitted. Banned literature included maps, atlases and
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was relatively uncontroversial, and attempts to ban other types of works often led to heated debates. In the last century or so of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the issue of censorship was therefore occasionally debated by Polish
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of Poland in 1939, the occupying powers once again introduced significant levels of censorship to Polish territories. The Germans prohibited publication of any regular Polish-language book, literary study or scholarly paper.
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between November 1918 and January 1919 removed preventive censorship, abolishing a number of laws inherited from the partition period, and replacing them with ones more supportive of the freedom of press. New
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publications, including dictionaries. Several non-public indexes of prohibited books were created, and over 1,500 Polish writers were declared "dangerous to the German state and culture". The index of
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introduced the idea of wartime censorship, prohibiting distributing information on military actions. In the 17th century Poland saw the publication and adoption of the first Polish editions of the
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described the censorship of that time as "focused primarily on anarchists, leftists, and Communist sympathizers among the avant-garde writers". Polish writers whose works were censored included
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In the Second Polish Republic, censorship was often employed "in defense of decency" against writers whose works were considered "immoral" or "disturbing the social order. Polish historian
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legislation that included the creation of a register of blocked web sites was abandoned by the Polish Government in early 2011, following protests and petitions opposing the proposal.
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related to a complaint by Szwajpolt Fioł (a Franconian from Neustadt living in Krakow) against a Polish bishop who forbade a printer in Kraków from printing liturgical books in
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were issued on 7 February 1919, introducing press regulation system and giving the government control over printing houses. In 1920 during the
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said the directive "may result in adopting regulations that are analogous to preventive censorship, which is discouraged not only in the
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has been described by some historians and activists as censorship because it criminalizes statements that allege Polish nation's
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dates to the late 15th or the first half of the 16th century. The first recorded incident dates to the late 15th century in the
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To avoid censorship, throughout the periods that censorship affected the Polish writers, some authors turned to
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of 1523 has been called the first law about censorship in Poland. Together with a series of further edicts by
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The controls were particularly severe during the early years of the communist period (i.e., during the
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was temporarily closed and lost its printing house after it refused to print the obituary of
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it prohibited the import and even reading of a number of books related to the
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on 5 July 1946 although it traced its origins to the organs established by
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Jacek Sobczak; Jedrzej Skrzypczak; Ksenia Kakareko (14 February 2017).
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Historia cenzury na ziemiach polskich sięga pierwszej połowy XVI w.
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Following Poland regaining independence in 1918, the cabinet of
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The freedom of the press is guaranteed in both the modern
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Kingdom of Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
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Internet in Poland#Internet censorship and surveillance
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Censorship in Germany § German Empire (1871–1918)
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Polskie Państwo Podziemne (Polish Underground State)
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