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Short stories and poems by Rudolf Dobias ("the Slovak Solzhenitsyn") based on his experience of persecution in communist Czechoslovakia.

Rudolf Dobiáš was born on the 29th September 1934 in Dobra, near Trenčín, Slovakia, into a peasant family. In 1954 he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for treason. The main reason for his arrest was membership of an illegal scouting organisation, whose activity was the production and distribution of anti-communist leaflets. Once the sentence had been passed, he was transported to the Jachymov district, where he worked as a miner in the Jachymov uranium mines until 1960. After the fall of communism, he became a journalist―he was editor of Slovenský denník. Until 2013 he edited the journal of the Slovak Confederation of Political Prisoners Naše Svedectvo (Our Testimony). He has compiled four books of testimonies to the brutality of the communist regime Triedni nepriatelia (Class Enemies) and an Anthology of Poetry Written in Prison, Básnici za mrežami (Poets Behind Bars).