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The tree was already rotten. I just gave it a good shake and the rotten apples fell. — Pope John Paul II

The tree was already rotten. I just gave it a good shake and the rotten apples fell.

Pope John Paul II
1996
★ 3.6

On the Soviet Union.

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Fall of communismCommunism
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1996
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Pope John Paul II
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Pope John Paul II. Quoted in His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time, written by Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi. Doubleday, 1996.

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