The Vatican Crisis

On May 13 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and killed by a Bulgarian-supported Turkish Ultra-Nationalist named Mehmet Ali Ağca. With the death of the only Polish pope to date, Christians in Poland called for Christianity to run the country, in order to show the world that their religion could prevail over terrorism such as what was seen done to the Pope, and that the Pope would've wanted his mother country to adopt the religion he so valiantly held. Polish Chairman Henryk Jablonski refused, citing that Poland was a communist country, not a country that was overrun by the religious.

By this time, Polish Christians had had enough. Waldemar Krakow, a previously unknown Christian pastor at a small church in Warsaw, rose to power as the leader of a new illegal political party called the Chrześcijańska Akcja Partia Polski (CAPP), or the Christian Action Party of Poland. Originally, the party wanted an independent state in the west of Poland, but decided against it when they realized that it would be quickly annexed back by Poland the other allied communistic states. After gaining much more support, Krakow realized that the only way to guarantee Christian rule, was to depose Chairman Jablonski and install a new theocratic government over all of Poland.