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Thirty years ago, the good guys won the Cold War, yet today we have a frontrunner candidate for president, Bernie Sanders, who is an out-of-the closet socialist. He loved the old Soviet Union so much so that he spent his honeymoon there.
Communists tried to take over the whole world. "We will bury you," claimed Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, but thirty years ago, two men played pivotal roles in helping to speed up the end of Russian domination – President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II.
Dr. Paul Kengor, a professor of history and political science, as well as a bestselling author on Reagan and on communism, wrote a book called A Pope and a President. Kengor is the chief consultant and a recurring guest in the brilliant new film "The Divine Plan."
The film depicts how they went to work together, mostly behind the scenes, to help Solidarity – the Polish labor union led by Lech Walesa, which defied the Communist government in Poland.
The faith of Reagan and of John Paul II helped bring about the chain of events that led to the undoing of the evil empire. The film highlights what could be called "the God factor" in this slice of history, and the connection between faith and freedom.
In the movie "The Divine Plan," we see President Reagan speaking at a University of Notre Dame commencement (5/17/81), in which he declares: "The West won't contain Communism. It will transcend Communism."
But young people today have grown up without the threat of Communism over their heads. More millennials have a warm and fuzzy feeling over the term "socialism" than they do "capitalism."
It's unthinkable that Communism, which killed in excess of a hundred million of its own people in the 20th century alone, is among the answers that some young people are considering today
Communism needs to be defeated again – this time in the classroom and in the late night bull sessions in dorm rooms and coffee houses of American universities. "The Divine Plan" reminds us that it once was defeated in a virtually bloodless way.
