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- SPECIAL BOOK EXCERPT, Page 47CensoredBy ANDREI SAKHAROV
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- [From Memoirs. (c) 1990 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Translated by
- Richard Lourie]
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- [Sakharov began writing for scientific journals around 1947,
- but every article had to be free of secret information and,
- worse, had to get past GLAVLIT, the state censor.]
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- GLAVLIT had an interminable list of subjects forbidden not
- only in the interests of secrecy but also out of political
- considerations. It was forbidden to publish information about
- crimes, alcoholism, health conditions, education, the water
- supply, suicides, the supply and production of nonferrous
- metals, precise data on the population's nutrition and income,
- movie-and theater-attendance figures. Data about measures to
- safeguard the environment and information about natural
- disasters and accidents could not be published without special
- permission. GLAVLIT's imprimatur was also required for all
- literary works and for just about everything published in the
- country, down to advertisements and the labels on matchboxes.
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