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The mass media in Communist Czechoslovakia was controlled by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ). Private ownership of any publication or agency of the mass media was generally forbidden, although churches and other organizations published small periodicals and newspapers. Even with this informational monopoly in the hands of organizations under KSČ control, all publications were reviewed by the government's Office for Press and Information. Censorship was lifted for three months during the 1968 Prague Spring but afterward was reimposed under the terms of the 1966 Press Law. The law states that the Czechoslovak press is to provide complete information, but it must also advance the interests of socialist society and promote the people's socialist awareness of the policy of the communist party as the leading force in society and state. Government concern about control of the mass media was such that it was illegal to own a duplicating machine or to reproduce more than eleven copies of any printed material. Nevertheless, a fairly wide distribution of underground publications (popularly known as samizdat throughout Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union) that were established during the Nazi occupation continued throughout communist rule into the 1980s. == Newspapers == *The chief newspaper of the KSČ was the Prague daily, ''Rudé Právo'', which, with a circulation of 900,000 in the 1980s, was the most widely read and most influential newspaper in the country. Its editor in 1987 was Zdeněk Horeni, a member of the Secretariat of the KSČ Central Committee. *Its sister publication, Bratislava's Pravda, was the organ of the KSS. *Other dailies with large circulations were e. g. Lidová Demokracie, published by the Czechoslovak People's Party (see National Front); ''Mladá Fronta'' in Bohemia/ ''Smena'' in Slovakia published by the Socialist Union of Youth (see National Front); ''Práce'' in Bohemia / ''Práca'' in Slovakia published by the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement; ''Svobodné Slovo'', published by the Czechoslovak Socialist Party, and ''Ľud'', published by the Slovak Revival Party. The Czechoslovak Press Agency (in Czech: ''Československá tisková kancelář'', in Slovak: ''Československá tlačová kancelária'' ČTK / ČTK) received a state subsidy and was controlled by the federal government through its Presidium. 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「Mass media in Communist Czechoslovakia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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