Few Popes in modern times have succeeded in bringing about fundamental change to the lives of millions.
St John Paul II did. His repeated trips to Poland -- there were nine of them, five of which were between 1979 and 1991 -- inspired Poles to rise up against Communism and went some way to bringing about the collapse of the Iron Curtain, although it was Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan who finished off the job.
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