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> They permitted this in Communist Poland?
Sarcasm intended, I assume.
Except for killing this Priest http://www.google.com/search?q=Jerzy+Popieluszko >...On 19th October 1984 his car was stopped by the secret police. Father Jerzy Popieluszko http://www.google.com/search?q=Jerzy+Popieluszko was bundled into the boot. He was tortured for several hours, badly beaten, tied up and thrown into a reservoir... NYRB http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=5641 >...'I Am Prepared for Anything' By Jerzy Popieluszko, Translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewski Jerzy Popieluszko, a priest at the St. Stanislaw Kostka church in Warsaw, was abducted by the Polish security forces on October 19 on a road outside the city of Torun and killed. He sent this statement abroad last year... the Catholic Church in Poland was too strong for the PUWP to repress. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/7901.ctl Michnik, Adam The Church and the Left. Edited, translated, and with an Introduction by David Ost. xviii, 302 p. 1993 -- Michael Pugliese