1jola: I have as much respect for this communist writer
Czesław Miłosz A communist writer eh?
...After World War II, Miłosz served as cultural attaché of the communist People's Republic of Poland in Paris. In 1951 he defected and obtained political asylum in France. In 1953 he received the Prix Littéraire Européen (European Literary Prize).
In 1960 Miłosz emigrated to the United States, and in 1970 he became a U.S. citizen. In 1961 he began a professorship in Polish literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1978 he received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He retired that same year, but continued teaching at Berkeley.
... Through the Cold War, Miłosz's name was often invoked in the United States, particularly by conservative commentators such as William F. Buckley, Jr., usually in the context of Miłosz's 1953 book The Captive Mind. During that period, his name was largely passed over in silence in government-censored media and publications in Poland.
After his defection Milosz's works were banned in Poland. He continued to write in Polish, but published many works in English. He was given a hero's welcome, when he returned to his native land shortly before he was honored with the Nobel Prize.
In Poland Milozs' moral stand made him a voice of conscience during the Cold War period.
During World War II Milosz was active as a writer in the Resistance movement and witnessed the Holocaust first-hand. His collection of verse, OCALENIA (1945), impressed so the new Communist government that he was appointed junior diplomat as a non-party intellectual.
A communist writer whose books were banned in Poland... surely not... I'd stop waving that red flag ... it'll clash with your face colour :-)))
1jola: the use of concentration camp for BK was used by the communists till recently.
and once again:
sjam: "... A number of modern non-Soviet sources have also characterized the facility as a concentration camp, including Yale University professor Timothy Snyder, the Library of Congress, and the Polish Nobel prize-winning author Czesław Miłosz." "... Polish-British historian Tadeusz Piotrowski who also calls it a concentration camp notes that the establishment of the facility was a norm of its times, similar to camps established by Americans for Japanese during WWII, by Canadians for Ukrainians during WWI, and – as also noted by Norman Davies – on a much smaller scale than those projects (not to mention the giant German or Soviet networks of concentration camps)."
Take it up with wiki :-))
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