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It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

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Lech Walesa
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
Dissident
Economist
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Lech Walesa
Wałęsa
Difficult
Censor
Today
Abyss
Men
Riding
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Horse
Blind
News
Sightless
Thoughts
Bottomless

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