 In a May 1947 Pastoral Letter, Hlond wrote that ""Since the days of St. Peter, the Church has not been subjected to a persecution such as that to which she is subjected today".Following Hlond's death in 1948, "The Tablet" wrote that "the nations of Eastern Europe which lie today beneath the police-regimes imposed from Moscow lost their most powerful spokesman".He was buried in the crypt of St. John's cathedral in Warsaw.