What did Todd said about Poland ?
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Explanation:Father Marik was inquiring about the English name for the short, thick wooden stick featured in his church’s museum exhibition, which highlighted the church’s long resistance to brutal occupation by the Soviet Union.
I answered “baton.” Someone else said “truncheon.” A third said “club.” We could also have replied “cudgel” or “bludgeon.” Whatever it’s called in any language, it is the prototypical weapon the Soviets, Nazis and other security forces have used to batter citizens who fight against oppression.
Tens of thousands of Poles had their bones broken by truncheons while resisting the Soviet domination of the country from 1945 to 1989, when the Poles, finally, inspired in part by Catholic leaders, became the first Eastern Europeans to successfully liberate themselves from vicious communist control.
Last month I was among about a dozen journalists, mostly from Eastern Europe, who toured the Catholic parish in Warsaw of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest murdered by Soviet security forces in 1984. His death elevated him to martyr status, which galvanized millions of Poles against their foreign occupier.
Along with the crucial roles played by the Solidarity movement and the Polish Pope, John Paul, the assassination of the priest, whose body was found dumped in a stream, was one of the crucial events that eventually led to the fall of Soviet Communism in more than a dozen countries in Eastern Europe.