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The USSR's role in manufacturing the allegations against Pius XII

posted 14 years ago by dcavalli
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Amen is loosely based on German playwright, Rolf Hochhuth's "The Deputy" (1963), which successfully turned Pius XII into a villain.

An article by Ion Mihai Pacepa, a high-level Romanian intelligence agent who defected to the West, reveals the Soviet Union's role in spreading the allegations against the Vatican in order to discredit the Catholic Church, which opposed its rule in Eastern Europe.

See http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTUzYmJhMGQ5Y2UxOWUzNDUyNWUwODJiOTEzYjY4NzI=

[–] viaggio1 14 years ago

Thanks for the tip, dcavalli !

"A bride without a head !"
"A wolf without a foot !"

[–] schuhj 13 years ago

The Soviet Union was well aware of the concentration camps but did little to overrun them. Stalin's anti-semitism ill disposed him to intervene in behalf of the Jews.

[–] wiltvid 11 years ago

How much access did Ion Mihai Pacepa have to KGB or NKWD ? Where Ceaucescu's relations to Stalin, or the later soviet rulers that close, to get such vital intelligence ? You have to be careful with such information.