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Was the failed assassination of the Polish pope a Soviet plot or simply the work of a deranged hitman? On the afternoon of Wednesday 13 May 1981, St Peter’s Square in Rome was packed with more than 10,000 pilgrims, excited to see the charismatic John Paul II, formerly Karol…
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