There was no evidence of its coming, of the kind that people had imagined; no vast
revolution in human affairs, no cataclysm, not even a sudden and far - reaching moral reformation.
He refused to believe that the false ideas of the
human person and
human history embodied
in communism could divide Europe indefinitely; and by igniting a
revolution of conscience behind the iron curtain, the man the last president of the Soviet Union called «the world's greatest moral authority» became an agent of liberation for his Slavic brethren and the precursor of new possibilities
in international
affairs.