Abstract

The opposition in Poland has had a remarkable success during the last few years. Thus, the publication of the secret documents concerning censorship was celebrated as “one of the biggest unmasking operations of the whole post-war period.” A professional censor decided to change sides and to make a gift of over seven hundred pages of classified material to a highly respected opposition group, the Committee for the Self-Defense of Society. The committee confirmed the authenticity of the document, organized it thematically, wrote an introduction, added their signatures, and sent the whole package to ANEKS (ANNEX), a publishing house established abroad by Polish exiles who left in 1968.