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Censorship in the Soviet Union was pervasive and strictly enforced. Censorship was performed in two main directions: *State secrets were handled by the General Directorate for the Protection of State Secrets in the Press (also known as Glavlit), which was in charge of censoring all publications and broadcasting for state secrets *Censorship, in accordance with the official ideology and politics of the Communist Party was performed by several organizations: * *Goskomizdat censored all printed matter: fiction, poetry, etc. * *Goskino, in charge of cinema * *Gosteleradio, in charge of radio and television broadcasting * *The First Department in many agencies and institutions, such as the State Statistical Committee (Goskomstat), was responsible for assuring that state secrets and other sensitive information only reached authorized hands. ==Destruction of printed matter== The Soviet government implemented mass destruction of pre-revolutionary and foreign books and journals from libraries. Only "special collections" (''spetskhran''), accessible by special permit granted by the KGB, contained old and politically incorrect material. Towards the end of Soviet rule, perestroika led to loosened restrictions on information and publishing. Soviet books and journals also disappeared from libraries according to changes in Soviet history. Often Soviet citizens preferred to destroy politically incorrect publications and photos, because those connected to them frequently suffered persecution. After the arrest of Lavrentiy Beria in 1953, all subscribers to the second edition (1950-1958) of the ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' obtained a page to replace the one containing the ''Lavrentiy Beria'' article; the new page extended information on George Berkeley. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Censorship in the Soviet Union」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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