The regions that are considered as ethnic strife-prone are: Western Europe- Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, France and Spain; Eastern Europe- Yogoslavia and newly independent countries of former Soviet Union; the Mediterranean and the Middle East- Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon and Israel; Africa- virtually every nation; Asia- from Pakistan to the Philippines; and the Americas- from Canada throughout the Caribbean. ... In the conflict of Bosnia and Herzegobina, Catholic Croats, Bosnian Muslims and Orthodox Serbs were fighting each other despite their homogeneous linguistic...

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Stalin's Soviet Union was a major factor in the defeat of Hitler in World War Two, and Stalin emerged from the war as leader of one of the world's two superpowers, quickly building a 'Communist Bloc' in Eastern Europe. 4. ... Peter not only reorganized the Russian army but he also reformed the government of the Russian Orthodox Church. 7. ...

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The one institution that Stalin's birthplace shared with the larger Russian Empire was the Orthodox Church which Georgia actually converted more than 500 years before Russia. ... This set the scene for much conflict between the strict Russian Orthodox priests who ran the school and the radical Georgian student body. ...

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