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had to look up bowdlerized...

> Expurgation. An expurgation of a work, also known as a bowdlerization or fig-leaf edition, is a form of censorship that involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work or other type of writing or media

It wasn't clear if original version existed? I think of the bukowski mess

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/poetry/bukowksis-poems-wer...

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In this case, the much overused 'censored' is really more accurate but like with most such works, unmangled versions were published in 90s after the fall of the Soviet Union. There's a tangential mention on the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Platonov#Official_suppo...