Today I went to a rally of Croatian journalists opposed to censorship in all its forms. About two hundred people assembled in the center of Zagreb. After a few short speeches, we all walked to the ministry responsible for the media, where a note of protest was delivered to the minister in question. At the rally I met an older journalist who had spent quite a few years abroad. Although happy to take part in the protest, he did not expect much to come out of it. “Censorship brings together only a couple of hundred people,” he sighed. “Real change requires different numbers.” And then he told me about his bout in Poland during the early days of the Solidarity movement. This was in the early 1980s. “Whenever you would pick up the phone,” he said, “there would be a recorded message to the effect that all communications were controlled.” At the beginning, the message worked. People were not very eager to speak their minds over the phone. “But they figured out soon enough that communications between close to fifty-million people could not be effectively controlled.” This is when everyone started using the phone as though no-one was listening any longer. And the control quickly collapsed. “This is the kind of understanding of the world around us that is beyond the Croatian society to this very day.” I kept nodding in agreement. “A wonderful story,” I sighed in the end.