| | Demokratizatsiya: Religion and politics in neighboring Belarus and Poland: Gender dimensions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) |
 | | Even when it was part of the socialist world, with the political center in Moscow, Poland kept its independence and enjoyed fundamental privileges among socialist countries, such as the prevalence of private property in agriculture and the dominance of the Roman Catholic Church in spiritual life. |
 | | Belarus, on the contrary, practically appeared on the map of Europe in 1991 after the collapse of the USSR. |
 | | In Belarus, less than 30 percent of men say that religion is important for them, and almost the same number of men say that religion has no importance at all; almost 55 percent of women say that religion is important, compared with 14 percent expressing the opposite opinion. |
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