In Fiction
The plot from the Tom Clancy novel Red Rabbit is largely centralised around the attempt on the Pope's life which is ordered by the KGB and carried out by a Bulgarian assassin also responsible for the murder of Georgi Markov. This hypothesis is supported by the movie Karol: The Pope, The Man.
Read more about this topic: Pope John Paul II Assassination Attempt
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“Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.”
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