As Communism<span> in the Soviet Union and </span>Eastern Europe <span>began to collapse due to the revolutions taking place, pressure mounted on the </span>East<span> German authorities to open the Berlin border to the west. Thousands of Germans were escaping to the west through Hungary and the GDR was powerless to stop them.</span>
The Kaaba, also referred as al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah, is a building at the center of Islam's most important mosque, that is Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām, in the Hejazi city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is the most sacred site in Islam.
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Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government and makes laws for the nation
This region was also politically unstable as there were different ethnicities and there was also rising nationalism in the region. Nationalism brought about tensions. There was also rising Serbian nationalist groups. Combined with the brinkmanship of the European Powers the area became a fuse to the powder keg that Europe had become. The Balkans has strong Cultural, Religious, and language ties to the surrounding Empires but they were in small pockets making nation building difficult.