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Imagine, after all those years of oppression! And how nice that the people turned their tv sets around!

I know a priest who grew up with the Nazi, then Communist regimes in Poland. We take our Faith for granted sometimes... They didn't lose theirs. Funny how St. Faustina, St. Maximilian Kolbe and St. John Paul all came out of Poland and their lives were touched by what was around them. EWTN had a wonderful documentary on this awhile back.

God bless you!

I knew a priest that grew up in Poland and he had to hide that he was studying to be a priest because of the Soviets. He was ordained by John Paul, right before he became Pope. When the cold war was over he came to America.

The crazy thing was that his mother was an American citizen from Chicago, She had moved to Poland before the Soviets took over and she got stuck there. Anyway he has a lot of relatives in Chicago. I met him in Fort Wayne Indiana. He was a little mad that they kept putting him in Polish speaking parishes as he was trying to improve his English. He said the Soviets made them learn Russian. They were not allowed to learn English even though the Soviets taught their own kids English. Any way he was a really cool priest.