I bought the kids a boxed collected edition of both "Maus" issues today. And this quote got me, "Teresa was only 10 or 11 years old then, but she was a precocious reader, and recognised the ways in which communist Poland mirrored Orwell’s fictional dystopian state: “It absolutely traumatised me..."

Reposted from The Guardian

‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism

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