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To: energyplay who wrote (47116)3/5/2009 4:16:11 AM
From: dybdahl  Read Replies (1) of 217643
 
Russia deviates, no matter what. It's almost a continent by itself in size. I once took a Russian language test, and scored zero out of 8 points. I really felt that I needed to study more. There was a long and complicated explanation to the result, but I couldn't read it well, so I used an automatic translator. The translation said something like "You scored zero points, so you probably cannot read this text". Hmm... But then it continued: "10% of the Russian population scores zero points". That's how diverse this country is.

Ukraine is a very wide country. In the east, they manufacture steel in old soviet factories and speak Russian. In the west, they outsource west European production in high tech factories and speak Ukrainian, which is close to Polish. And agriculture is rising. Some predicted that the country would split. I'm not so sure, because the regions actually have power and disagree peacefully - but tensions are definitely present.

I would probably divide Europe like this:

Russia and it's spheres (Russia, East Ukraine)
Multi-generation non-russian communist areas (Ukraine, Belorus)
Short-time communist areas (Estonia, Poland etc.)
West Europe

I seriously think that religion unifies more than it divides, these days.
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