[Byron_the_Aussie]

..during the Cold War years, he got along very well with his Communist masters, and never really did get embroiled in Polish politics...Hoo yeah.

He 'got along so well with his Communist masters', that they sent a Bulgarian agent to shoot him.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Only after he became Pope; keeping in mind he was a symbol in Poland and nothing more. It wasn't anything he did personally - especially considering that there is no evidence of underground activity on his part before he left to assume the Holy See - and definitely none after.