Milosz resisted the ideological conformity that began to spread in Europe after the defeat of the Nazis and the Fascists. His book's title, The Captive Mind, refers to the willingness of the citizens of eastern European countries to accept the official line during the Cold War era. In western Europe too, socialism asserted itself in a more benign avatar, the welfare state that, however, crippled their economies. Nevertheless, the ideology of state dominance went unchallenged until the Thatcher-Reagan years. RAJIV DESAI THE TIMES OF INDIA September i, 2004
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