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Grit in the engine

April 3rd, 2012

Robert McCrum considers Index’s role in the history of the fight for free speech, from the oppression of the Cold War to censorship online

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As the Czech Republic and the wider world bids Václav Havel goodbye,
Pavel Theiner, whose father George worked tirelessly to shine a light on the work of Czech dissidents throughout his editorship at Index on Censorship, looks back on a remarkable man
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