The Governments of Communist States towards Pope John Paul II (1978–1981)
Abstract
The subject of this article is the position of the authorities of communist states in Europe towards the election of Karol Wojtyla as Pope in 1978 and his first years at the Vatican. The text is an outline of the problem based primarily on the literature on the subject and source publications. The author’s attention is focused on Poland, as well as on other countries with a significant number of Catholics within their borders: Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the Soviet Union. In particular, the reactions of the authorities to John Paul’s visit to Poland are discussed, as well as measures taken to combat Vatican influence in the Soviet bloc countries. The closing caesura is the assassination attempt on the Pope on 13 May 1981.
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