This Fall old and young people celebrate Freedom

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ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2009, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders met in Gdansk, Poland, to commemorate the German invasion that began exactly seventy years before, touching off the Second World War in Europe. These are her words:

"Yes, it is a miracle that in this year we need not only think back to the abysses of European history seventy years ago. It is a miracle that we can also think of the happy days that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany, and the unity of Europe twenty years ago. After all, Europe’s path to freedom was only made complete with the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Back then, in the tradition of Solidarity in Poland, people everywhere courageously pushed open the gate to freedom. We Germans will never forget

• the role played by our friends in Poland, Hungary, and former Czechoslovakia,
• the role played by Mikhail Gorbachev and our Western partners and allies,
• and the role of the moral power of truth that no one embodied more convincingly and credibly than Pope John Paul II."

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