How did Eastern and Western Europe differ during the Cold War?

Western Europe promoted capitalist democracies, and Eastern Europe came under the Communist influence of the Soviet Union.

What are Eastern and Western cultures?

Eastern culture includes Asia and the Middle East, while the western world includes South and North America, European countries, New Zealand and Australia. Western culture allows people to be more open and critical.

What is considered Eastern European descent?

Anyone who is descended from ancestors from the general Eastern European region is of Eastern European descent. Generally, we understand this region to extend from eastern Germany to Russia, and from countries bordering the Baltic Sea south to those bordering Greece.

What is considered Eastern European?

Eastern Europe is as the name says, the eastern part of Europe, countries within Eastern Europe are according to the United Nations Statistics Division, Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, the Ukraine and the most western part of the Russian Federation, (see: European …

What was Eastern Europe during the Cold War?

The Soviet Union dominated Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. During the war, the USSR absorbed the three formerly independent Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—as well as a piece of Romania, which it established as the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.

What is Eastern and Western bloc?

The governments and the press of the Western Bloc were more inclined to refer to themselves as the Free World or the First World, whereas the Eastern Bloc was often called the “Communist World” or “Second World”.

What do eastern and Western Europeans look like?

Eastern and Western Europeans look very much the same. Visible outer differences between Europeans exist mostly between the Northerns and Southerns and is evident in the different hair and eye coloration from light to dark. Easterns and Westerns look the same. Let’s see pictures below of Western and Eastern Europeans.

Is Eastern Europe more peaceful and respectable than Western Europe?

Eastern Europe has definitely more peaceful and respectable history than Western Europe if we take in consideration that in 20th century both devastating global wars WW1 and WW2 were started by Western Europeans. As a Pole who lives in the USA, it is very easy for me to tell eastern and western european descented people apart.

Is there a universal look for Eastern European people?

Appearance wise, if you put a German and a Russian next to each other, it will be hard to guess that they are from different countries. As someone here already said, appearance wise, both Eastern and Western Europeans are diverse, so there’s is no “universal” look.

Can you tell the difference between a white American and European?

I can easily tell the difference between a White Americans vs a European. Europe is just a continent, and not one “race” or one ethnicity (by the way I dont think the word “white” or “caucasian” are relevant for such a diverse continent where all ethnicities look that different, but that´s another story.)