ded to intervene !
             in Italian affairs in the Crimean War and in Mexico. After Napoleon’s collapse, the Third Republic was hostile to the influential role of the Catholic Church played in French politics and introduced sharply anti-clerical legislation. In Russia religion’s influence was much different. There wasn’t much influence at all in the period of 1815 to 1919. Czar Alexander proposed the Holy Alliance under which monarchs would pledge themselves to rule according to Christian teachings; here alot of them didn’t have any sincerity, especially Alexander. Religion also intensified things as in France, Russia decided to intervene when the Greeks revolted against the Turks, claiming the need to protect fellow Christians from the Muslims. Russia has been Commu
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