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re:..Pope John Paul II worked ..to bring down communism in the Soviet Union and Marxist governments in Latin America. .. Pope John Paul II…... morally undermined the Soviet Union

See the FR Thread "Resurgent Communism in Latin America" at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2683681/posts?page=1

Communism is advancing at lightning speed throughout Latin America and few if any people in the USA knows it. While Americans bask in the shade and drink their the Kool-Aid that "communism is dead", communism is advancing in Latin America like it never did during the Cold War..

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Westerman told The New American that a worldwide alliance including Communist China, Islamic fundamentalism, Iran, leftist Latin American rulers and guerrillas, and other forces were all collaborating in a war against the United States, united by their “anti-human, anti-God” ideology. “[The Russians] are running the same game, just slightly different — it’s more of a franchise operation than a central corporate operation, if you will. But if you take Russia out of it, the whole thing collapses.” Indeed, the Russians have been supplying advanced weaponry to regimes like Chavez’. Russian National Security Council Chief Nikolai Patrushev actually attended the most recent ALBA summit last year. And China and Iran have both jumped on the bandwagon as well, cooperating with a variety of unsavory Latin American governments in myriad sectors and projects.