Russia. We had nukes aimed at each other in countries near each other
The Middle Path is the proper way to reach Enlightenment because it leads to gaining insight, which them leads to wisdom, which advances to calmness, knowledge, to the Sambodhi, and finally, to Nirvana.
Under the leadership of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik Party seized power in the Russian Republic during a coup known as the October Revolution.
I believe that the story of the Jewish people refers to the persecution they faced for thousands of years from as early as the Middle Ages in the First Crusade to the 1930s in the Holocaust. Their perpetual discrimination due to their religion throughout history shows that religion plays a massive role in events in history/civilization.
Religion was the reason why Crusades began. Religion was the reason why Anne Hutchinson was banished from Massachusetts Colony. Religion was the reason why Queen Mary I is infamously known as Bloody Mary. Religion was the reason why heroine of France Joan of Arc was burnt at stake.
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