To the first, I guess I can see why some Poles in his generation would have a complicated relationship with Communism but yeah I have absolutely 0 interest in reading that.

To the second, wow what the actual fuck, way to lose touch with who the character he created even is. It's not the first time an author has revisited some story they wrote when they were younger and showed they've completely forgotten who the character was at core by making them suddenly rabidly conservative. I actually got a copy of that book but hadn't gotten around to reading it because by the time it got translated and arrived I was focused on other stuff.

Have you read his Hussite trilogy? I was stoked to try reading them years ago but they hadn't been translated to my language yet and by the time they were I was fixating on other things so I still haven't gotten around to them. The reddit crowd says they're even better than the witcher, but reddit leans so I don't necessarily take anything they say seriously.