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A Showdown with Evil
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  Be the first of your friends to like this.Excerpt: Dr. Jamie Glazov and his Canadian publisher, Mantua Books, have just published a new kind of "samizdat" which is the Russian word for self-publications written by dissidents and passed from hand to hand. "Self-publishing" (by hand, on typewriters, on printing presses) was a 20th century way of dealing with Soviet government censorship. The Russian authors and readers who were found with such writing in their possession were routinely subjected harsh imprisonment. Westerners, (and this includes Israel), do not live in a Soviet Gulag and are not subject to political censorship, but we do face a new kind of Orwellian censorship and self-censorship. Independent and anti-totalitarian thinkers and activists are demonized, "disappeared," legally sued, threatened with death—and in the name of anti-racism and human rights. Historian, journalist and Frontpage editor Glazov has been tracking this astounding turn of events—both the censorship and its denial—for a very long time, perhaps even in utero. After all, his parents were Soviet dissidents and he dedicates the book to his mother. Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Culture Wars & Censorship | ||||||
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