> What did Eastern Europe aggressively do, in the last century? Destroy aristocracy. Well, I wasn't a big fan of it, but the reality of the matter is... for mo

> What did Eastern Europe aggressively do, in the last century? Destroy aristocracy. Well, I wasn't a big fan of it, but the reality of the matter is... for most of us, someone else destroyed our aristocracy (and all of our intelligentsia with it) for us.