The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoBelieve in yourselfmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square53linkfedilinkarrow-up1398arrow-down110
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minus-squaremushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·1 day ago“Eastern Europe” is literally a euphemism for “former Soviet”. Finland is not Eastern European, Greece is not eastern European, but Poland is Eastern European. The term is meaningless, just say Baltics, Balkans, and Black Sea.
minus-squareaeshna_cyanea@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 day agoI think you mean “former Warsaw pact”
“Eastern Europe” is literally a euphemism for “former Soviet”. Finland is not Eastern European, Greece is not eastern European, but Poland is Eastern European.
The term is meaningless, just say Baltics, Balkans, and Black Sea.
I think you mean “former Warsaw pact”
Or ‘former iron curtain’