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Censorship in Communist Poland

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681: 855: 817:). The official name of the guidelines in Polish was "Książka Zapisów i Zaleceń GUKPPiW" (The Book of Records and Recommendations of GUKPPiW). These materials included photocopies of the originals and personal notes in his notebooks. No-one at his office was allowed to take them out of the building or reprint them: the Bureau censors were allowed only to remove these guidelines from the safe and read them on site. The document was generic in nature: "It's forbidden to write about any info on the disaster in X". "It's forbidden to write about any increase in deaths from xy ". Natural catastrophes, or even carcinogenicity of 869: 883: 692: 54: 841: 792:, that a fragment had been censored, instead of hiding such deletions or withdrawing their entire publications. Publishers demanded the right to leave a white space to indicate how much of the text was cut, but that was rejected. Nevertheless the change spelled a setback for GUKPiW and interventions were less common: an article with dozens of cuts might have a greater impact on the readers' minds than the words missing. 828:
In the 1990s when after the Bureau was dissolved and its archives released, not all copies of such censorship guidelines were submitted and their existence was denied. However some years later former censors of the Bureau confirmed that they had such books in their departments, and that they used it
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Czarna ksiega cenzury PRL – The Black Book of the Censorship of People's Poland. In two or one parts called in English: The Black Book of the Censorship of People's Poland—Part 1, ed. T. Strzyżewski, ANEKS, London, 1977 The Black Book of the Censorship of People's Poland—Part 2, ed. T. Strzyżewski,
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Other topics were mentioning the names of censored authors, unless negative arguments about their works were given. Even statistical data about coffee drinking in Poland were banned as this might cause protests against reexporting this product from Poland.
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Library collections were systematically cleansed, the majority of the books destroyed, some isolated in Party or academic libraries. A list of prohibited publications and black-listed writers was created in 1950 during the darkest years of
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in 1953, had their books not only removed from libraries, but also meticulously destroyed. In addition to the censorship of the publications, the state also
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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.
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with some 1,682 items, and subsequently modified many times by the communist authorities in the
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movement in 1980, independent editors were allowed to indicate, with a sequence
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The codes assigned to the censors were printed as part of the
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Main Office of Control of Press, Publications and Shows
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Warmińsko – Mazurska Biblioteka Pedagogiczna w Elblągu
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Index

Censorship in the Polish People's Republic
a series
Censorship by country
A censorship symbol
Albania
Algeria
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belarus
Bhutan
Bolivia
Brazil
Cambodia
Canada
Chad
China
Hong Kong
overseas
Croatia
Cuba
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Eritrea

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