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Soviet censors considered this book to be particularly damning and dangerous, primarily because the author argumentatively destroyed the hitherto established scientific stereotypes about the secondary nature of Ukrainian printing and the subordination of Ukrainian printing to Russian. Perhaps for the first time in historiography, the author shows what destructive force was methodically directed from St. Petersburg and Moscow over the centuries to destroy the freedom of the Ukrainian press, suppress Ukrainian culture, and ban the language of a nation of millions. It is also convincingly proved how the Ukrainian printed word, despite all kinds of oppression, bans and obstacles, made its way to the people, awakened their thoughts, and raised them from their knees.