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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Vanessa Gera

Jerzy Urban, spokesman for Polish communist govt, dies at 89

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Jerzy Urban, a spokesman for Poland's communist-era government in the 1980s who masterminded state propaganda and censorship for the regime in the final years before its collapse, has died. He was 89.

His death was announced on Monday by a satirical weekly magazine, “NIE” (Polish for “No"), which Urban founded and led in the post-1989 era.

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