During the height of the Cold War struggle between totalitarianism and democratic freedom, the West was united by a trio of political and religious leaders characterized by intellectual seriousness and moral courage: Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Pope John Paul II.
As a native son of Poland, the pontiff played a critical role — with help from Reagan and Thatcher — in confronting the communist apparatchiks in Poland and igniting a democratic revolution that ultimately toppled the Soviet Union.
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