Pope Helped Overthrow Communism in Europe...Rate it!

Career Prole

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Pope Helped Overthrow Communism in Europe...Rate it!

Not one word about Pope Ronnie! The pope, Lech Walesa, Gorbachev...no Reagan!

Rate it a five and make the 'pukes froth!

BERLIN - Karol Wojtyla became a priest in 1946, just as the Iron Curtain descended across Europe. The inspiration he provided as Pope John Paul II helped to tear it down.

Lech Walesa, founder of the Solidarity movement that toppled communism in Poland in 1989-90, recalled the power of John Paul's visit to Warsaw in 1979. It was the first to his homeland after becoming pope a year earlier, and he ended Mass with a prayer for the Holy Spirit to "renew the face of the Earth," words that became a rallying cry.

"We know what the pope has achieved. Fifty percent of the collapse of communism is his doing," Walesa told The Associated Press on Friday. "More than one year after he spoke these words, we were able to organize 10 million people for strikes, protests and negotiations.

"Earlier we tried, I tried, and we couldn't do it. These are facts. Of course, communism would have fallen, but much later and in a bloody way. He was a gift from the heavens to us."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/pope_ending_communism

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fishwax

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Fri Apr-01-05 06:34 PM
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1. I used to make that argument with my uber-conservative boss

who worshipped the ground reagan walked on. When he talked about how great ronnie was and how he ended communism, I'd say it was the Pope and Gorbachev that ended communism. That always used to piss him off. :)

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Career Prole

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Fri Apr-01-05 06:40 PM
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2. E-mail him the article...

...it'll do his soul good. Can't "dis" a dying Pope! :D

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fishwax

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Fri Apr-01-05 07:07 PM
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4. haha! that's a good idea

alas, we're out of touch now ... which is probably a good thing, as he was totally out of control, politically speaking ...

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gademocrat7

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Fri Apr-01-05 06:51 PM
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3. DONE

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Career Prole

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Sat Apr-02-05 04:27 PM
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5. Important addition...After you rate the Pope story up

Edited on Sat Apr-02-05 04:30 PM by Career Prole

rate this one down!

Nancy Reagan notes common bond of late husband and Pope John Paul II

"And then, you know, there was a whole communist thing. They were -- the two of them, the pope and Ronnie, very involved with defeating communism."

Right...and I was "very involved" in winning the World Series against the Yankees 'cause I had it on the tube.

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in_cog_ni_to

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Sat Apr-02-05 04:48 PM
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7. done n/t

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in_cog_ni_to

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Sat Apr-02-05 04:47 PM
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6. done n/t

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Mr_Spock

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Sat Apr-02-05 05:36 PM
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8. kick

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