theyounghistorian77
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What Frenger said. When you start reading the constitutions of the various states that once made up what was behind the Iron curtain, both in the Baltics and interestingly in the Balkans (and especially since the bloody dissolution of Yugoslavia), it should strike you as interesting the number of nations that have adopted secular constitutions. This is not some mere carry-over from the USSR, seeing as these very same states are now engaging in forging an identity that is in opposition to what the USSR stood for as a whole and said constitutions are a part of that. The new liberal identities (on paper at the very least) of these various states far better represents my secularist values than what the old regimes ever did or claimed to do.