Reacţiile lui Nicolae Ceauşescu faţă de criza poloneză (1980-1989)
Nicolae Ceaușescu's Reaction to the Polish Crisis (1980-1989)

Summary/Abstract: During 1970s and 1980s, Catholic Church spoke up in support of the people persecuted by the Polish communist regime. In order to unstring the situation, Edward Gierek met Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski in 1977 and asked the Catholic Church representatives’ support trying to defuse the suituation. Moreover the communist leader approved Pope John Paul II visit in the country in 1979, on a nine days pilgrimage, although he created problems difficult for the Communist authorities to cope with, because he initiated an aid fund for the Krakow archdiocese families of the arrested demonstrators. The opinions expressed by Nicolae Ceauşescu in December 13, 1981 and August 21, 1989 were extremely critical when he spoke about Pope John Paul II and the prelates of Catholic Church, who were considered the main guilty persons for the start and evolution of Poland crisis. The repeated interventions of Pope John Paul II in Poland generated many arguments in Bucharest because he put in danger the entire communist structure in Europe. The study is accompanied by the transcript of an official document which shows in a detailed way how Ceauşescu evaluated, in late September 1989, the situation in Poland.

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