Medieval Eastern Europe
Gone Medieval
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Goodbye Eastern Europe
I think we've been losing it for over 100 years. The wars of the 20th century, especially World War II and then the aftermath have done a lot to destroy that idea of the multi-ethnic, multi-religious Eastern Europe. It hasn't completely vanished, but it's much more in memory than in the present. And now even that sense of difference, of sense of uniqueness from the west, I think is receding. There are pockets of it, like the Basques or the radons, but it seems the exception. But as even that idea vanishes, we don't have to be ruled by the nation state.
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