04.06.2005 08:53

Magnetic Pole


Kinga at Kinuk has some images from the Mass in Pilsudski Square, Warsaw, for the Pope, said by Jozeph Cardinal Glemp, the Primate.

Polskie Radio's story says 300,000 attended (Mass for the Pope) in Warsaw, and that 150,000 marched in Krakow, where Wojtyla was the cardinal archbishop (Poles remember the Pope).

Gazeta Wyborcza's site has commentary by Adam Michnik, Leszek Kolakowski, and Jan Turnau, which I'd love to be able to read, but haven't been translated, AFAIK. Gazeta Wyborcza is the largest circulation daily in Poland. It began in May 1989 when the Communists dropped press licensing in the run up to the elections to the Sejm and Senate in which Solidarity candidates won all races for the Sejm they were allowed to contest and 99 of the 100 Senate seats ( Central Europe, June 1989).

A digression: in 1947, when three questions were put to a vote by the people, the third question was whether the Senate should be abolished, and the opposition ran a 'No on three' campaign, which failed.