Due to closure from the free world by communist countries.
Western Europe had a much stronger economy. Eastern Europe fell into poverty and more Eastern European countries became police states.
Western Europe had a much stronger economy. Eastern Europe fell into poverty and more Eastern European countries became police states.
Western Europe had a much stronger economy. Eastern Europe fell into poverty and more Eastern European countries became police states.
The Gulf Stream warms the eastern coast of the United States. Its outreach, the North Atlantic Drift, warms Western Europe.
The Soviet Union (basically Russia) had control of Eastern Europe for a long time and most states just recently gained independence in the late 1900s.
An imaginery boundary between states controlled by the communist regime (Eastern Europe + East Germany) and states loyal to the United States (essentially) (Western Europe)
Independent nation states developed later in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe because Eastern Europe had little history of self-rule. It had been conquered by Hitler, then the Soviet Union.
Notice that Eastern Europe IS NOT the same as Eastern Block, i.e. Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary were part of Eastern Bloc (as communistic states) but have never been in Eastern Europe (but central one or in western cultural circle). SO Eastern Bloc: poverty, communism, lack of personal freedom, highly extended health care and education system, central planned economy (inefficient), subjection to USSR (obligatory under the thread of military intervention) Western Europe: Richness, real democracy, freedom of speech and traveling, lower social expenses, capitalism, subjection to USA (freely).
Language barriers will cause a divide anywhere. Eastern Europe is mainly composed of Slavic languages while Western Europe is mainly composed of Romance and Germanic languages. Language barriers will cause the inability to communicate.
In general, states in the western part of the United States are larger than states in the eastern part.
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