Samizdat (Russian: самизда́т, IPA: [səmɨzˈdat]) was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader. This grassroots practice to evade official Soviet censorship was fraught with danger, as harsh punishments were meted out to people caught possessing or copying censored materials. Vladimir Bukovsky summarized it as follows: "Samizdat: I write it myself, edit it myself, censor it myself, publish it myself, distribute it myself, and spend jail time for it myself."
Samizdat: An Amusing Bit in the Wikipedia Entry
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Samizdata was one of the great blogs. They're still around, as we are.
"Samizdata" is the genitive singular. The nominative (and accusative) plural is "samizdaty". So the blog's name is "Libertarian of [the] Samizdat".
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