Wpływ Związku Radzieckiego na proces tworzenia cenzury państwowej w Polsce (1944-1945)
The Soviet Union’s Impact on the Process of Formation of the State Censorship in Poland (1944-45)

Summary/Abstract: In December 1944, two Soviet censors came to Lublin, in theory at the invitation of the Polish government, but in fact of Gen. Bulganin. They were functionaries of Soviet Glavlit and came to establish the state censorship modelled on the Soviet agency and operating on similar mechanisms. The reasons for the formation in the Polish territory of the agency for controlling the media include the desire to block the more and more intense information in the West about the Soviet crimes committed during World War II, to prevent the disclosure of military secrets in the press, to improve the image of the Soviet Union and Red Army, and to compromise in the press the Polish government in London. After arriving in Poland, the censors from Glavlit rejected the censorship project of Polish communists which they considered as incompatible with Soviet interests and remodelled it in such a way as to make it corresponding to the Bolshevik standards.

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