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C. More than 86 percent of Croatians are Roman Catholic. The Catholic Church has prohibited membership in Masonic organizations since 1738. Critics have alleged that Freemasonry interferes with religious and political loyalty. Many founders of the United States were Masons, including George Washington.
D. Historic religious and ethnic differences helped lead to the often violent breakup of the Balkan state of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. More than 140,000 people were killed about 4 million were displaced in fighting among various Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim ethnic groups.
C. During World War II, a fascist government allied with Nazi Germany ruled Croatia, and Freemasons and Jews were rounded up and murdered or sent to concentration camps. The communists who recreated the nation of Yugoslavia after the war also banned the Masons until the nation broke up in 1991.
A. The nations that have replaced Yugoslavia are Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia. Albania was a southern neighbor of Yugoslavia but never part of that nation.