Poland presents; in a specially complex and anguishing form, a cruel and dual dilemma. A dilemma for Moscow: to crush or not to crush. A dilemma for the West: to aid or not to aid.
Soviet Communism is an alien imposition everywhere in Eastern Europe, but more in Poland than, say, in Bulgaria, and for that matter more in Poland than in Russia itself. A people so overwhelmingly Catholic is obstinately anti-Communist, to the extent that a show of faith is itself a form of resistance, as was shown so dramatically by last year’s papal visit.
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