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Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

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I welcome Your Holiness on behalf of Polish people, and on behalf of the supreme authorities of the Polish People’s Republic. We attach great importance to your visit. We are glad to receive Your Holiness on our native soil. I personally am also very glad to meet Your Holiness.

Printed below is the text of the speech by the First Secretary of the Polish United Workers’ Party on the occasion of his meeting, on 2 June 1979, with Pope John Paul II in the Belwedere Palace, the official residence of the Council of State of the Polish People’s Republic.

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© 1981 Bogdan Szajkowski

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Szajkowski, B. (1981). Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. In: Szajkowski, B. (eds) Documents in Communist Affairs, 1980. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05727-6_6

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