Vatican City

Vatican City also known colloquially as The Holy See is a country surrounded by Italy. It is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church and its government, and the home of the head of the Catholic Church - the Pope.
==History==
===Third World War===
One of the biggest enemies of socialism from day one was religion. Karl Marx himself called it the opium for the masses, and all socialist states would almost always eliminate religion as much as possible, with ideologies such as christian socialism still being a niche. Thus, it was obvious since day one of the invasion that the Communists will not hesitate in attacking the Holy See itself. The initial storm over Europe was thankfully halted in 1991 in eastern parts of Germany, so the Soviet invasion forces were unable to reach the Vatican City.
The Pope, John Paul II - Karol Wojtyła - was a vivid anti-communist, and along Lech Wałęsa was frequently seen as responsible for the downfall of Communism in Poland. According to the memoirs of cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, when the Pope heard that Soviet and Eastern Bloc soldiers were crossing Polish borders, he grabbed the edge of his desk so hard his knuckles went white, and his face contorted into a grimace not unlike that of a broken man. He expressed much grief and via radio and television asked all Christians all across the world to pray for peace and ask God for salvation.
The Soviet Air Force was ordered by Premier Aleksander to bomb the Vatican City to crush the morale of Christians. The Vatican City was thankfully an enclave in the middle of well-fortified Italy, and the Soviets would have to cross dozens of anti-air defenses from all sides to even attempt a bombing. All attempts have failed - the Tupolevs were all blown to bits by NATO anti-air, and the bombing plan ended in a shouting match between Aleksander and Aleksandr Yefimov, the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Air Force, who berated the Premier for wasting lives of several Soviet aces for an attempt at a psychological terror attack, instead of using their skills to bomb strategic targets in NATO countries.
Then by December 1990, the head of KGB got a better idea on how to crush the morale of Christians all over the world - kill Wojtyła himself. There were already two failed attempts at the Pope's life already. First one in 1981 in the Vatican City itself, where Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish nationalist hired by the KGB attacked the Pope using a handgun, and a second one in 1982 when a Portugese ex-priest attempted to stab him with a bayonet for being an alleged Soviet spy.
The first assassination attempt of the Third World War was made by reaching out to a Italian Socialist Party member, and ordering him to drive a truck full of explosives into the Apostolic Palace, as the Pope not allowed to leave it until the war blows over for his own safety. The truck caught a flat tire several meters before the Holy See perimeter, and when the would-be suicide bomber was out buying a new tire in a local store, a drunk stole the warhead from the truck's back. It is unknown what he did to it - presumably, he sold it for some booze money at a local scrapyard, assuming it was some sort of weird water destilation machine.
The second attempt was made by two Russian scientists from Demikhov's Zamrazharka laboratory, Semen Artifisinsky and Ivan Krukhut; they developed a Kremówka pastry (Pope's favorite) filled with arsenic, which they desired to send to the Holy See, proclaiming it to be a gift from cardinal Gantin, his close friend. The arsenic Kremówka was accidentally eaten by a Italian customs official, who said it wasn't sweet enough to serve the Man himself, ate it whole, and only complained about excessive flatulence afterwards.
The final attempt was an idea by Vladimir Demikhov - his idea was to dress up a Soviet soldier as an old babushka and one of his humanzees as a child, and send the two to the Apostolic Palace, pretending to be a old mother with a deformed child, desiring Pope's blessing. It ended poorly - during their train ride to Vatican, the sedated humanzee awoke prematurely and attacked everybody in the coach before being hit on the head with a snack cart by the train's conductor.
Thus, the Vatican City was spared - perhaps by a divine intervention - from the claws of the Reds, and Karol Wojtyła could call himself a survivor of yet another global conflict, much to the admiration of his flock.
==Appearances==
*The Stories Of The World #1 - ZDoom Forums lore post (First appearance) 
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