Oh, there were market pressures, of a sort. The top writers and poets doing the translation were doing that because they were unable to get their own work publ

Oh, there were market pressures, of a sort. The top writers and poets doing the translation were doing that because they were unable to get their own work published, due to not being considered ideologically aligned enough with the government. And they needed to live somehow, and avoid being jailed for not having a job.