"All the Telephone and Telex Lines are Disconnected" - RFE and the 1981 Martial Law in Poland

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• Poland's martial law government shuts nearly all newspapers and interns journalists overnight
• Claim 168: Jaruzelski opened his televised address announcing martial law by saying the country had found itself at the edge of the abyss and that the structures of the state were ceasing to function.
• Claim 169: All private phone and telex lines were cut off and mail was subjected to censorship once martial law took effect.

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