What Pope John Paul II has called the century of tears saw the deaths of millions of Ukrainians at the hands of Stalin, the Shoah in which six million European Jews were exterminated by Hitler, the killing fields of Cambodia, and more recent tragedies in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
Ce siècle, que le pape Jean-Paul II a qualifié de siècle des larmes, aura vu la mort de millions d'Ukrainiens aux mains de Staline, l'extermination par Hitler de six millions de juifs européens pendant la Shoah, les champs de la mort du Cambodge et, plus récemment, les tragédies du Rwanda et de l 'ancienne Yougoslavie.