Word: jacek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sinyavsky and Daniel in the U.S.S.R., Mihajlov in Yugoslavia, Jacek Kuron and Karol Modzelewski in Poland...
...sentence was relatively mild, there are signs that the regime is clamping down on other intellectuals who have been demanding greater freedom of debate and inquiry. Recently, the government stopped the press run, after 7,000 copies had been printed, of a scathing novel, The Divine Caesar, by Jacek Bochenski, which bitterly attacked the Communist order under the guise of exposing ancient Roman tyranny. Muses the novelist's dictator: "Let's face it. Gaul has not been subjugated. The people want political reform. All the people want freedom and hate slavery." In case anybody missed the point, Author...