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> Curtain 2.0 looks to be forming only around Russia And Belarus.
by T-A 5y ago
> Curtain 2.0 looks to be forming only around Russia
And Belarus.
- sandworm101 5y agoDifferent countries today, but the etymology of the name remains telling. Belarus = Byelorussia = Belaya Rus = White Russia.
- CRConrad 5y agoWell, if you're going to go by what the Russians themselves call stuff in Russian, then Ukraine (or at least a big chunk of it) is called "Little Russia", so... Maybe better not go by that, eh? I mean, if we were to go by what people call places as a valid indicator for which people the places belong to, then everything from the Atlantic as far east as all of Poland and much of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia used to be called Grossdeutschland ("Greater Germany") as late as in my grandparents' youth... So better not.
- dragonwriter 5y agoAnd a bunch of pro-Russian puppet states Putin is building by conquest of all (if he succeeds completely in Ukraine) or part (South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, and, with only partial success in Ukraine, Donbas and Luhansk) of some former-Soviet European states. But, still, limited to a subset of ex-Soviet territory, not the broad expand of Eastern Europe right up through part of Germany that the old Iron Curtain contained.