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I have no idea what GrabCAD has to do with this, or what the GrabCAD challenge even is. I don't see why Elbonia would necessarily represent Estonia. It's a fic
by lambda 13y ago
I have no idea what GrabCAD has to do with this, or what the GrabCAD challenge even is.
I don't see why Elbonia would necessarily represent Estonia. It's a fictional country, that represents all of the small, relatively poor, Soviet Bloc states that people in the US don't know much about; Estonia, or Latvia, or Albania, or Moldova, or Slovenia.
This just seems like some false outrage to garner hits for his site.
- BerislavLopac 13y agoSlovenia was not a Soviet Bloc state.
- lambda 13y agoYou're right! Hence emphasizing my point about Americans (like me) not knowing much about them. After checking Wikipedia, technically Slovenia was briefly Eastern Bloc as part of Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1948, but after that split and was independent of the USSR. For some reason I had thought that it was an Eastern Bloc country for longer than that.