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Pope-John-Paul-II-shakes-hands-with-Soviet-President-Mikhail-Gorbachev-in-the-first-ever-meeting-between-a-Kremlin-chief-and-a-Pontiff-in-Vatican-Friday-Dec.-1-1989

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev gestures while speaking to Lithuanians at the Lenin monument in Vilnius, Soviet Union, Thursday, Jan. 11, 1990