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+====== Eastern Europe ======
+<div subtitle>
+{{tag>musing}}
+</div>
+<div passage>
+<dfn>Eastern Europe</dfn> is a geographical label and a cultural label.
+The geographic label refers to the part of Europe that is roughly East of the Alps, though it doesn't include the Scandinavian Countries.
+The cultural label currently de-facto refers to the countries of the former [[lb:Eastern Bloc]]. That's mostly what this article is concerned with.
+</div>
+The designation is actually quite useful, because many Westerners (Western Europeans and North Americans) //do// tend to think of Eastern Europe as separate. This sentiment is shared by Eastern Europeans.((:fn:>Many [[lb:Poland|Polish]] don't realize that they're actually a [[lb:the West|Western]] nation, and often refer to ‘The West’ in a way that excludes Poland.))
+More to be written later.