Glavlit
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- Soviet Russia creates Glavlit, a central office to review all printed material before publication
- Claim 157: By 1930 all printing and publishing in the Soviet Union was subject to pre-publication censorship, covering everything from newspapers and books to posters and theater tickets.
- Claim 158: Glavlit's standards were relaxed in late 1988 as part of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost campaign, and the agency was dissolved by presidential decree in 1991.
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