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No, it has always been considered part of the Eastern European Communist countries. Nowadays it it considered one of the eastern European Balkan countries.
Albania
The Eastern European countries included these countries in the Warsaw Pact: Romania, Albania, Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria.
Italy, Greece, and Albania border the Ionian Sea.
The Czech Republic is actually the most prosperous country in Eastern Europe.
The European Union was founded by Western European countries while Eastern European countries were still occupied by the Soviet Union.
No Eastern European countries were members of the European Union in 1993. The EU did not expand to the east until 2004 when nine Eastern European countries (with one Western European nation) joined the EU.
Eastern Europe is only full of Eastern European countries. That means there are no Western European countries, Latin American countries, Subsaharan countries, East Asian countries, etc. in Eastern Europe.
No Eastern European countries were 'occupied' by the Soviet Union (USSR) in 1988. All Eastern Europe countries had their own independent governments. The following Eastern European countries were members of the Warsaw Pact, which means they were allies of the USSR and followed an economic and foreign policy similar to the USSR: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania. However, some current Eastern European countries were states within the Soviet Union and whose authority was sublimated to Russia. These include: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova.
Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, Greece
Yugoslavia and Albania
Eastern European countries became communist, which was a political ideology modernized by the USSR.