But it took an enormous amount of courage for the Holy Father to say to the Soviet empire that ``If you invade my motherland, I will be there to meet you.'' And I think in some respects, that, and the time that Ronald Reagan went to Berlin and he stood before the wall and he said, ``Mr. Gorbachev, if you mean what you say, then tear down this wall.''
Reflecting on historical moments of courage against the Soviet Union.
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