This depends somewhat on what you classify as "west," but generally speaking, yes, this is true, since it was in Ancient Athens that the first democracy was formed.
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Edgar Degas. This is one of his paintings.
Lutherans from Germany, Calvinists from France, Baptists from England, and a whole host of other Christian sects all eventually became known as Protestants. The word ''protestant'' sprung up out of the political conflict in the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth century.
Holodomor
kill- by-famine
The policies of Stalin known as the five years plan that aimed at industrializing soviet union are to be blamed for million death, that were covered up from the outside world.