Gorbachev and the Polish Pope – no meeting of minds

Reform Communist: Mikhail Gorbachev introduced John Paul II to his wife as “the greatest moral authority on earth”.
ALAMY, MARKA

Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope St John Paul II respected and admired each other, but their relationship symbolised an irresolvable clash between two ways of seeing human nature and human history.

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