Koreans practiced a form of Buddism which was a Chinese philosophy, during the Tang dynasty.
The Renaissance slowly enabled people to think of themselves as individuals, to have confidence in their capabilities, and to look forward to the fame their achievements might bring. The eyes of the Europeans were opened through the Crusades.
It would be "France" that was not an eastern european nation under communist control, since France was very much allied with Great Britain and the United States during the Cold War.
Mutinies in both the French and Russian armies (and navies) set each
nation back significantly because it diminished their fighting force and
decreased soldier moral.
