They were. Around that time there were issues between Russian Orthodox Christians and Muslims who were found in their south because of the Ottoman Empire. There were also insurgencies of Orthodox Christians in Ottoman controlled territories in former Slav areas.
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“Society was liberalized, and Gorbachev sought détente with the USA so as to be able to transfer funding from defense to civil society. He declared that he would not support Communist regimes in other countries if their peoples were opposed to them. He thus started a chain reaction which led to the fall of communism in Europe.”
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