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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
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