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Pope John Paul II assassination attempt happened on 1981-05-13.
An attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II occurred on May 13, 1981
He was nearly killed in an assassination attempt in 1981
He forgave Mehmet Ali AÄŸca who was the young Turkish man who shot John Paul during an assassination attempt in 1981.
A second assassination attempt took place on 12 May 1982, just a day before the anniversary of the first attempt on his life, in Fátima, Portugal when a man tried to stab John Paul II with a bayonet. He was stopped by security guards, although Stanisław Dziwisz later claimed that John Paul II had been injured during the attempt but managed to hide a non-life threatening wound.
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On May 13th 1981, pope John Paul II was shot by Mehmet Ali Agca in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
Mehmet Ali Agca.
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I assume you're talking about the 1981 assassination attempt against John Paul II.Basically, the Soviet feeling was that the pope was a destabilizing influence on their control of (mostly Catholic) Poland. In general, the Soviets were anti-religious, but John Paul II stuck in their craw rather more than most popes, since he was especially popular in Poland (being Polish himself) and he supported the Solidarnosc movement... a bad combination, in their eyes.It's worth noting that it hasn't actually been proven that the Soviets were specifically behind the attempt, though it is pretty clear they would generally have regarded its success as a good thing.UPDATE:Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, High level defector from the Romanian spy organization, in his bookDisinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategy for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorismverified that the assassination attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II was carried out by the KGB working through Bulgarian operatives.
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