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Pope John Paul II will go down in history as "an anti-Communist force," to borrow an insult the Communist party threw at its opponents.(The Week)(Brief article)
* Pope John Paul II will go down in history as "an anti-Communist force," to borrow an insult the Communist party threw at its opponents. The attempt to murder him in May 1981 coincided with rising resistance to the satellite regime in Poland. If the Soviets had invaded, the Pope's advice to his fellow Poles would have determined the course of events. It seemed to many at the time that the Kremlin decided to play it safe and kill the man. There was no hard evidence for their involvement. Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who put bullets into the Pope and ...
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