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By Lech Alex Bajan - Nov 9th, 2009 at 2:24 pm EST

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Watching now life Hillary Clinton in Berlin Anniversary of the end of the Berlin Wall

Thank You Mrs. Clinnton Thank you! from all Polish Americans

Thank you to say today in Berlin about the Polish Pope Papa John Paul II Karol Wojtyla

God bless You Mrs. Clinton and god bless America

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. Clinton takes part in the commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)

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Barack Obama Speech from Berlin, Germany

Former First Lady Hillary Clinton and President Bill Clinton greeted the pope at an airport in Newark, N.J., on the start of his four-day visit to America.

Peaceful the only way to cut it as our Pope John Paul 2 did

Extranormal, El Papa Juan Pablo II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vL99dv5Ltk

The Pope With Fidel Castro greeting with snake hands sign

Karol Wojtyla, the unpublished images - part 1 (1942-1956)

Karol Wojtyla, the unpublished images - part 2 (1962-1970)

Iohannes Paulus II

why the Zionist attacking Polish people and Poland?

after what Poland did to help for 1000 years to save the jews

Address to the Polish Parliament in Warsaw

July 7, 1994

Thank you very much. Mr. President, Mr.

Prime Minister, Marshal Oleksy, Mr. Speakers,

and representatives of the people of Poland: I

am honored to stand before you today in this

chamber, at the heart of Poland’s democracy.

I know that you have extended your session

in order to hear me today, and I am very grateful

for your hospitality.

We gather today to honor a friendship that

is as old as my Nation. And we honor ties that

grow stronger every day. We admire the contributions

that Polish-Americans, millions of

them, have made and are making to our Nation’s

strength. And we celebrate the cultural

ties that bind our peoples. But at this moment

of decision in history, in this time of renewal

for Poland and for the United States, Poland

has come to mean something even greater, for

your success is crucial to democracy’s future in

Central and Eastern Europe, and indeed, all

across the globe.

It has been said that if it were not for the

people of Poland, democracy might have perished

on the continent of Europe a half-century

ago. For it was the Polish mathematicians from

the laboratories of Poznan who broke the secrets

of the Enigma Code, what Winston Churchill

called the most important weapon against Hitler

and his armies. It was these code-breakers who

made possible the great Allied landings at Normandy,

when American, English, French, Canadian,

and yes, Free Polish forces joined together

to liberate this continent, to destroy one terrible

tyranny that darkened our century.

Yet, alone among the great Allied armies who

fought in Normandy, the Poles did not return

to a liberated land. Your fathers instead returned

to a nation that had been laid waste by its invaders.

Then one would-be conqueror gave way

to another, and an Iron Curtain fell across your

borders, a second foreign tyranny gripped your

people and your land.

It was here in Poland that all those who believe

communism could not stand, first found

their hopes fulfilled; here that you began to

hammer on the Iron Curtain and force the first

signs of rust to appear; here that brave men

and women, workers and citizens, led by

Solidarnosc, understood that neither consciousness

nor economics can be ordered from above;

here that you showed the peoples of Central

and Eastern Europe that with hearts and hands

alone, democracy could triumph.

But I come here today not simply to recall

the events of 50 years past or even to rejoice

at those of 5 years ago, for others have done

that and done it very well. Instead, I come to

the heart of a new, democratic Central Europe

to look ahead, to speak of how we can reverse

the legacies of stagnation and oppression, of fear

and division; how we can eradicate the artificial

lines through Europe’s heartland imposed by

half a century of division, and how we can help

chart a course toward an integrated Europe of

sovereign free nations.

The challenges our generation faces are different

from those our parents faced. They are

problems that in many cases lack pressing

drama. They require quiet and careful solutions.

They will not yield easily. And if we meet them

well, our reward will not be stunning moments

of glory but gradual and real improvement in

the lives of our people.

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