I had already tried my hand at Bible smuggling behind the Iron Curtain into Moscow and Leningrad when the call came from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). I was asked if I would be willing to take similar risks, this time smuggling theology books into Prague for an underground seminary.
It was the early 1980s, and the Cold War was at a particularly bitter stage. Yuri Andropov – “the Butcher of Budapest” – had become General Secretary of the Communist Party, and had launched a crackdown on all dissidents and those who slipped in from the West to help them.
