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Theoretically the censor’s influence might be felt in the choice
of texts for translation. I understand censorship broadly, both as a
proscriptive and prescriptive force, wielded by people who would not
necessarily have considered themselves censors in that they were not
employed by the Main Office for the Control of Press, Publications
and Public Performances (GUKPPiW). For instance, readers of Dziennik
Literacki in 1948 were treated to translations of poems by Langston
Hughes, including ‘Brass Spittoons’, all of which show the United
States in a poor light. It is difficult to say now whether Hughes’
reputation in Poland would not have been better served by his work
going untranslated under Stalinism.