> And the Communist regime in Poland, which had been installed by Stalin at the end of the Second World War, had reasons to be concerned about Milosz.

It's amazing how heavy-handed and propagandistic Americans sound in a liberal magazine like the New Yorker when they try to portray Poland as being heavy-handed and propagandistic. Imagine if this sentence was written:

"And the Capitalist regime in Italy, which had been installed by Truman at the end of the Second World War, had reasons to be concerned"

And why wouldn't one write that about Italy...it was more of a satellite state of the USA than Poland ever was of the USSR.