The medical student who smuggled typeSourced
She studied paramedicine.
She also carried type for a secret press.
While studying in Saratov in the Russian Empire, Anna Weisman smuggled literature and printing type in 1902 to help set up an underground revolutionary press. She later worked as a paramedic while remaining politically active.
Before ideas could spread,
the letters had to arrive.
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