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jecowa t1_iuh7co6 wrote

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.

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_iuh7dqz wrote

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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