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"Procrustean bed" - I can't find another more apt image to characterize the monstrous work of police censorship during the time of fascism in our country. Indeed, this censorship did not cut off arms and legs, did not physically mutilate, as the legendary Procrustes did (other organs of the Police Directorate were engaged in this), but it castrated and mutilated ideas and concepts, and this procedure was much more cruel, it inflicted much greater damage. Even in the Christian Gospel it is said: "And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the spirit, for more terrible are those who kill both body and soul at the same time." I remember once in a private conversation one of the former heads of censorship, E. K. (now deceased), exclaimed with cynical frankness: