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Discussion: Define Eastern Europe
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There are always arguments about whether it should be based on economy, history/culture, or simply geography, specially for countries like Greece and the Visegrad 4 countries.
How do you personally define it?
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former communist countries
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I cut it past Germany-Austria-Italy tbh obv not including Scandinavia.
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Russia, the Baltic States, half of Poland, Ukraine, half of Romania imo
aka the worst part of Europe
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Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
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woT is that map? Kosovo missing, Montenegro missing, BiH completely deleted 
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Member Since: 8/6/2012
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Quote:
Originally posted by Raster
Russia, the Baltic States, half of Poland, Ukraine, half of Romania imo
aka the worst part of Europe
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do you mean best?
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Quote:
Originally posted by NX127
do you mean best?
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it's easily the worst and im talking from experience
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine and that bit of Turkey that is in Europe
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I associate it with politics rather than geography. So former Warsaw Pact countries + other Balkan countries.
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Originally posted by J a y
Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
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What about Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and so on?
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V4 countries are barely Eastern geographically, but mkay.
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lol I was debating with someone about this a few weeks ago. I said Greece was Eastern Europe and they were shocked and said it's not because it's next to Italy, Spain and Portugal. And I said it is because it's next to Turkey and as far East as Russia is.  I think he considers Greece as Southern Europe, regardless of how far East or West it is.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Cas
What about Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and so on?
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The United Nations Statistics Division includes 10 countries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
The Multilingual Thesaurus of the European Union includes: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
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Eastern European countries are those that are on the opposite of the Western European countries.
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Western Russia 
Jk they should be defined by their beautiful languages and bloody pasts
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Quote:
Originally posted by Cas
What about Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and so on?
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They're usually in South-Eastern Eu group but it's a mess, esp with Croatia whose shape is wierd af and has influences from Central, Southern and Eastern Eu and can be found placed in any of the three.
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