Trump also feeds the ethonationalist myth that it was a 1979 papal visit, not a mass trade union, that mortally wounded Communism in Poland
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Replying to @Pinboard
This is a myth that has legs in Poland? Even in Catholic school we were taught about Solidarity and Lech Wałęsa.
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Replying to @tqbf
the Pope had a profound political impact on the situation, and you can argue that Solidarity would not have succeeded without him
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