He was.

Censorship in Poland had a funny element, as weird as that may sound. It wasn't un-typical for postcards or letters to contain 'greetings to the censor' at the end or even as the salutation.

It was a surreal society where everyone had to pretend to be living in an imaginary world. Luckily there weren't too many hard-liners; the jackboot was applied without much enthusiasm after 1956. Life was way harder for the Russians.