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  • n  a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature

  • Beyond that, Sammyboy is morphing into a kind of samizdat outlet where Singaporeans vent and satirize life in the city-state.
  • Currently the most prized samizdat work is Venedikt Yerofeyev's Moscow-Petushki.
  • Thanks to the persistence and assistance of commenter audiospaceship, I finally read the samizdat version of Matt Taibbi's Goldman Sachs screed.
Quotes

  • Robert Spencer in Brussels Journal
    As Robert Spencer commented, "Soon Eurabia will resemble the old Soviet Union, in which dissidents furtively distributed samizdat literature and faced stiff penalties if the authorities discovered what they were doing. Europeans who care about what...
  • Tucker Carlson in mediabistro.com (blog)
    From the release, "I've admired the Cato Institute since I first read its publications, passed around like samizdat on my college campus," said Carlson of his new affiliation. "When I moved to Washington, I discovered that my impression of...
  • Brian Leiter in Boston Globe (registration)
    Soon the list - which Leiter updated regularly - became popular among philosophy grad students, who circulated it "like samizdat in the Soviet Union," Leiter says.

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