Originally posted by Squire
"Catholic Church is partially responsible for crisis in Poland in early-80s, but USSR didn't interfere there."
We need a calender of your best posts. That ones a keeper.
The USSR feared the Catholic Church (and any other religion), as it did any institution that it could not control directly, like the press, and television. It was about loyalty to the state, and anything that subverted that, was a threat. Cant have folks listening to what the opinion of the Pope is on something over what the Central Commitees policy is, who knows where that might lead? 
Even Stalin cooperated with Orthodox Church since the War.
Catholic Church in Poland wasn't destroyed even closely to the state of disaster in USSR before the War.
Churches became centers of "opposition" in Poland in late-70s. It is a fact.
Originally posted by Squire
As far as not interfering, thats too funny, since the Warsaw Pact got their marching orders from the Kremlin.
Interesting view. It wasn't so. It's hard for you to imagine the level of discussion between the sides in Warsaw Treaty. At least it didn't have that beautiful statement in it's regulations like NATO has, about US interests and involvement. This part of NATO documents is unprecedented, it's like Article 6 in Soviet Constitution of 1977.
Why not find some literature translated from Russian about Warsaw Treaty instead of repeating things like that? Or there is no "demand" for truth?
Or maybe you simply have been told that there is no such demand?
