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This is an analysis of the official records of preventive censorship interventions into texts that were to be published in ,,Tygodnik Powszechny” between 1 January 1949 and May 1952. The original files which consist of over 1000 protocols are kept at the Central Archives of Modern Records (AAN). The article identifies the themes and the alleged intent of texts that were either suppressed in their entirety or in parts. It also looks at the justification of the interventions and its characteristic newspeak formulas.Finally, the article considers various strategies of authors seeking to minimalize the censors’ cuts