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eligion is something different from their struggjle against the socialist
program. Today it is complicated even more by' the fact that die Russian
Church, the Oriental Orthodox Church, came as it seems, to some
agreement \\ith the BobheviksThe struggle m the East is to a great extent
a strug^e between the Eastern Church and the Western Chuich—
continuation of the struggle that originated more than a thousand years
ago between the two churches. Therefore, the conflicts m these countries,
between Russia and the western boundaries of the Iron Curtain, are \rry
complicated. It is not only a struggle against totalitarian economic methods
for economic freedom; it is ako a struggle of \-anous nationahtics, of
different hnguistic groups. Consider, for instance, the aaempcs ot* the
present Russian government to make the ^-arious Balnc nationahaes over
into Russians—a continuation of something thai had beeti started by the
Tsars—and the struggle in Poland. Oechoslo\-akia. Hungary, and so on.
against the attempts of the Russian C'huah to bring them back.as the>' say.
to the Oriental Creed. To undersund all these struggles one needs a spccul
familiarirv' with these naiioiulities and with the religious htstoncs of thcie
parts of the >Ax>rld.
In the sixteenth ind sesrnieenth cenlurici there i^rre changes that
expanded the size of the lernton in which the IVipes tuprenuc>' was
acknowledged. Therefore, there exi\tcd a Ru\s«an C'hureh. the Orthodox
Church, and a Ukrainian or Russian ( atholu (!hureh which acknoi^'-
Icdgcd the suprenucv ot the Pope ,Ml thr*e things together constituted
the great religiou% Mrugglo t>l the l.au Mimrsrr. one mmt mx ciwhiw the
events happening in these natunultstu and reiigKHts struggles s^ith the
fight against coiniiiuni\m For imiatue. the politic lans tighlii^ agamsl the
RusMuiis ttHlay are not alwa\-^. or at lea\i mK in nMHC cases, ttghiers in
fjvt>r i>t 4 tree ct onomu *\-\teni T he\ are Marxians, scxialtst^ Thrv vkxniUi
probjhiy like tt» hasr a ti>talitarian pt^lue tiate. but ihrv don't want it to be
governed b> the RusMans
I-rom thi\ p'. atui
economic freedom
One of the outManding contemporaries ot" Karl Man in (»rmuny wjc
J philosopher. Iricdrich Albert I ange (I82H-IH7?>) He s^^xe a famous
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