>I dare to say that an average Pole under state socialism had a far
>greater exposure to foreign ideas and publications than an average US-er
>in this self-styled bastion of freedom.
Was that because it was officially forbidden in Poland? The ban made it interesting, but the lax enforcement made it easy to run around. Here in the U.S., almost everything is legal and available, but no one notices, because it's all hidden in the open.
Doug