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The Pope as Pole: what he did for his country; what his country did for him.(Cover story)(Biography)
From:
National Review
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April 25, 2005| Author:
Sikorski, Radek
| COPYRIGHT 2005 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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POLAND'S mourning for John Paul II is special, as might be expected: All the newspapers are framed in black, every shopping mall is closed, and not a single TV station is daring to run commercials. Poland has lost not just a pope, but a national redeemer, the person who led us out of Soviet captivity and across the Red Sea into the land of liberty and democracy.
Normally a cantankerous lot, Poles rally around about once a generation, and then their enthusiasm becomes ove...
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