Jerzy Urban was a spokesman for Poland’s communist-era government. aHe masterminded state propaganda and censorship for the regime in the 1980s. Urban launched weekly government news conferences that were broadcast by Polish television. Advertisement Jerzy Urban, a spokesman for Poland’s communist-era government in the 1980s who oversaw state propaganda and censorship in the final years before the regime’s demise, has died. He was 89. On Monday, the satirical weekly magazine “NIE” (Polish for “No”), which Urban founded and led after 1989, announced his death. When he was the spokesman for Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski’s government in the early 1980s, Urban developed...