epicaglet t1_iuelnt3 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 7:09 PM

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_iuelprm wrote on October 30, 2022 at 7:09 PM

>Central Europe is an area of Europe between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, based on a common historical, social and cultural identity. The Thirty Years' War between Catholicism and Protestantism was a significant shaping process in the history of Central Europe. The concept of "Central Europe" appeared in the 19th century. Central Europe comprised most of the territories of the Holy Roman Empire and those of the two neighboring kingdoms of Poland and Hungary.

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MHcharLEE t1_iugnucz wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:28 AM

Lots will argue that Poland is an eastern European country since that's where we more closely fit culturally and economically. Often this rhetoric is used as an insułt (because Eastern Europe is supposed to be worse). There's always a small smirk on my face when I see Poland being referred to as a central European country, as it's a nice middle finger towards those who wish Poland was in an artificial lower category.

jecowa t1_iuh7co6 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:08 AM

I'm suspicious that the term "Central Europe" was made up by people who didn't like being a part of Eastern Europe. The divisions between Central, Eastern, and Western Europe seem more arbitrary than the divisions of continents. I kind of thought Eastern Europe was anything that was a part of the old Eastern Bloc.

WikiSummarizerBot t1_iuh7dqz wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:09 AM

Eastern Bloc

>The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc, the Socialist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed during the Cold War (1945–1991). These states followed the ideology of Marxism–Leninism, in opposition to the capitalist Western Bloc.

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