<span><span>The wars that the ancient
Greeks fought against the Persians, who were seen as savages or
barbarians by Greek culture, were also called Wars of Freedom.</span> <span>These
wars were supported, according to the Greek belief, by the Gods, who
were also Gods of Liberty, and this formed a link between Greek politics
and their religion.</span> <span>The Greeks, after the Persian Wars, or
Wars of Freedom, were strongly related to Zeus and Artemis, for they
protected the Greek Freedom, called Eleutheria, or the personification
of freedom.</span> <span>Being the ancient Greece where the
first experiment of human freedom was made, the mixture of religion and
politics around Freedom, was a very important element in the culture of
ancient Greece.</span></span>
He was talking about the political divide between Western and eastern europe. Eastern europe was mostly communist. Whereas, western europe was made up of democratic countries.
