Because the Soviet Union controlled Eastern Europe for four decades. This changed when they elected a new leader, Mikhail Horbachev, he gave Eastern Europe more freedom as one of his reforms.
Eastern Europe was ruled by large empires for a long time. The Russian Empire, German Empire, Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and Ottoman Empire ruled over most of Eastern Europe until the end of World War I (even prior to) where new Eastern European countries eventually started coming about.
Because the Soviet Union controlled Eastern Europe for four decades. This changed when they elected a new leader, Mikhail Horbachev, he gave Eastern Europe more freedom as one of his reforms.
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in the northern and Western Hemisphere
Western, Eastern & Balkan (Italian), and to a lesser extent Middle Eastern.
Southern, eastern and western.
Western part of Montana.
Western Hemisphere
The pope is western. The Byzantine Church is eastern.
north eastern
it is in the eastern
Eastern
singapore is in the eastern and northern hemisphere
Western sahara is a Moroccan territory. the occupied eastern sahara ( south of french algeria) is Moroccan too. algeria never had a sahara before being a french colony.The last colony in africa is the eastern sahara.