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Most definitely the Czech republic. Central Europe imo is just western eastern Europe lol.
According to your "logic", Vienna or Helsinki must be part of Eastern Europe. Look at map. They are east of Prague! Czech republic is of course NOT an Eastern Europe. Forty years of communist crap could not change previous thousand years of history. Period.
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I honestly think the political definition will just keep changing to the point where the Czech Republic could be considered Western Europe. To me, the final frontiers of the firmly East are just Belarus, the Ukraine, and Russia.
Fully agree with Mikkarter,This is not only question of location on the map but economical, political distinction as well. Hungary, actual Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Czech Rep, major part of Poland, were integrated part of a Europe for centuries before the iron curtain. 40 years under Soviet regime changed economical and political structures but not the fundamental bases of these societies. 25 years after the soviet system is gone, there is much less difference nowadays between Slovakia and Italy or Hungary and France than between Slovakia and Romania, Moldova, Ukraine. For me PL, SK, HU,HR,SLO clearly Europe. East of these countries I see an incoherent group of countries, hard to classify.
I honestly think the political definition will just keep changing to the point where the Czech Republic could be considered Western Europe. To me, the final frontiers of the firmly East are just Belarus, the Ukraine, and Russia.
Eastern Poland and Slovakia. I think these regions/countries straddle the line with their German and Austro-Hungarian influences which balance with the influences from Russia. East of them is Eastern Europe 'proper'. Ukraine and Hungary are solidly Eastern.
Western Poland and the Czech republic are solidly Central European. Slavic Central European.
The first one is the historical one, and it follows the boundaries of the Iron Curtain. The Eastern European countries are the young democracies with emerging economies. Still lower standards of living than in the west, and sometimes problems with human rights.
The second one is the modern one. Eastern Europe are the countries not being part of the 'European core'. So the boundary goes east of Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. For Romania and Bulgaria I'm uncertain, these seem much less "west" or "central" than Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia.
So, my answer would be: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia are Central Europe. The Baltic States Northern Europe. Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and Russia Eastern Europe. Romania and Bulgaria Southeastern Europe.
The vast expanse of land between the Rhine and the Urals.
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