[kosta50]

I wish our fellow Aericans understood what Orthodox people in the East went through until the fall of communism

Indeed. And volumes of books could be filled with just the names of people who died martyrs' deaths simply because of their faith...but before the godless communist even had their feast, in Greece and in Serbia, the Orthodox were persecuted for five hundred years by the Ottomans.

[Diocletian]

You left out the Croats and the Magyars as well. The Ottomans were much more inclined to accept Orthodoxy than the Roman Catholic Church.