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by owenshen24 2167 days ago
Unrelated: Is there any connection between the author and the other sam[]zdat who writes about society and other intriguing topics?

https://samzdat.com/

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I wouldn't know, but there is no reason for me to be thinking something like that. "Samizdat" is not really a name or something, it's a transliteration of "самиздат", which is a short/colloquial for "самостоятельное издательство", which literally means "self-publishing" (this was a thing during the USSR, where "self-publishing" was basically opposed to "real, official government-approved publishing"). I believe it's just a "clever" domain somebody was able to acquire, nothing more.
Ah, thanks for the explanation.