Karol Wojtyła

John Paul II born Karol Józef Wojtyła (18 May 1920-2 April 2005) was the Pope from 1978 to 2005, including the period of the Third World War. Because of that, he was the target of multiple assassination attempts by the Soviet Union.
==Biography==
Born in 1920 in Wadowice, John Paul II was a man who loved poetry, his country and has led a rather tragic life, with both of his parents passing away, him having to witness the atrocities of German-occupied Poland first-hand, and later in his life, having to also witness the torment of Poles at the handds of the Polish communist government. He 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 in 1990, 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.
By December 1990, the head of KGB got the idea to assassinate Wojtyła in order to crush religious morale in Christians all over the world. 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 assasination attempt of the Third World War was made by reaching out to a Italian Socialist Party member, and ordering him to drive a bomb truck into the Apostolic Palace, as Wojtyła was not allowed to leave it until the war ends for his own safety. The truck caught a flat tire 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.
The second attempt was made by two Russian scientists from Vladimir 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 flatuence afterwards.
The final attempt was an idea by Vladimir Demikhov himself - 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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