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| df37048 | "In his book , written in 1951-2 and published in the West in 1953, the Polish poet and essayist Czeslaw Milosz paid Orwell one of the greatest compliments that one writer has ever bestowed upon another. Milosz had seen the Stalinisation of Eastern Europe from the inside, as a cultural official. He wrote, of his fellow-sufferers: | czeslaw-milosz nineteen-eighty-four totalitarianism george-orwell russia communism | Christopher Hitchens |