Book (document) smuggling has been going on forever. In fact, information-smuggling is the world's second oldest profession. In the late 1980s I had a controlled asset persuade her 87 year old mother to smuggle out of Eastern Europe a carbon copy of a computer program that would give the West a minimum 30-day notice on a Soviet invasion.
A few months later I recruited an Eastern Bloc source who told us of a Russian-gauge rail line that extended two hundred kilometers further west than any previously known. Tanks aren't Oldsmobiles, for long distance they have to ride on trains, and Russia had a unique gauge not shared with any other country (for the nit-pickers, yes, I know there are exceptions). There were dozens of such efforts in the Eastern bloc in the late 1980s, because Russians never learned that winning the hearts and minds of subjugated people does not proceed well when it begins with lashing the back.
That's an inspiring story and one that we know too little about. I certainly had never heard of that ban before, but book banning has a long, dark history and one that we need to be aware of and fight against.
Perhaps people will start smuggling Ukrainian language books into occupied Mariupol and Kherson now the Russians have started burning works in that language.
This is so interesting! My great-grandparents immigrated to the US from Lithuania in the 1920s. I know so little about the country they came from, even though I knew my great-grandparents as a small child.
Book (document) smuggling has been going on forever. In fact, information-smuggling is the world's second oldest profession. In the late 1980s I had a controlled asset persuade her 87 year old mother to smuggle out of Eastern Europe a carbon copy of a computer program that would give the West a minimum 30-day notice on a Soviet invasion.
A few months later I recruited an Eastern Bloc source who told us of a Russian-gauge rail line that extended two hundred kilometers further west than any previously known. Tanks aren't Oldsmobiles, for long distance they have to ride on trains, and Russia had a unique gauge not shared with any other country (for the nit-pickers, yes, I know there are exceptions). There were dozens of such efforts in the Eastern bloc in the late 1980s, because Russians never learned that winning the hearts and minds of subjugated people does not proceed well when it begins with lashing the back.
That's an inspiring story and one that we know too little about. I certainly had never heard of that ban before, but book banning has a long, dark history and one that we need to be aware of and fight against.
This is helping me with a book report in ela I am doing words on fire and have to do background reasrch before reading and this is helping alot
Perhaps people will start smuggling Ukrainian language books into occupied Mariupol and Kherson now the Russians have started burning works in that language.
This is so interesting! My great-grandparents immigrated to the US from Lithuania in the 1920s. I know so little about the country they came from, even though I knew my great-grandparents as a small child.