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other nations were asked to stay in some of the Eastern European coun-
tries, they are not pleased with this decision. While Hungary's Prime
Minister Victor Orban calls this crisis a "rebellion by illegal migrants",
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico says they would only accept
Christians. It is surprising how the Europeans easily forget the refugee
crisis they experienced over history owing to the wars in Europe. They
faced the same problems these poor, innocent people experience now.
For instance, in the Thirty Years' War, probably one-third of the pop-
ulation of the Czech lands fled to other parts of Europe and certainly
during the World War I and II vast number of people was internally
displaced.
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