Comments by "andy99ish" (@andy99ish) on "KaiserBauch" channel.

  1. Eastern Europe is orthodox Europe - Russia with its satellite Belarus, Moldova, Serbia, Romania, Northern Macedonia, the European parts of the Caucasus (the latter two with Muslim spots). Central Europe is Germany, Austria, Slavic nations of Latin Christianity (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia), Hungary and Northern Italy. So roughly Germany plus the late Habsburg empire. However North-Western parts of Germany (set apart by the so called tea-coffe line) and its hanseatic cities (e.g. Hamburg) are rather Western than Central Europe. Mixed cases: Switzerland (Central/Western), Ukraine (Central/Eastern), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Central/Eastern). Cases escaping that categorization: Southern Italy, Albania, Montenegro, Greece in the South, the Baltic nations and Finland in the North. You can see many conflicts of Central vs. East in the Slavic domain: Poland vs Russia since centuries, Bosnia in WW I, Bosnia internally, Croatia vs Serbia and now Central Ukraine vs Eastern Ukraine and Russia.
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  2. ​ @Pugalo13  Thanks. I though that Dalmatia is coastal Croatia south of Istria, but as I see it starts much further to the South, somewhere near Trogir, correct ? Apart from that every country is differentiated in itself, but Croatia as a whole is culturally quite different from Serbia. Re the West- interesting thought. And picking it up - its once higher status of civilization in our times translates into being more touched by decadence.
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  3.  @Pugalo13  I felt a quite marked difference between Serbia and Croatia, even in Yugoslavian times. This is not a matter of good vs bad. Serbia always felt more rough, more spontaneous, more dramatic than Croatia. How would you characterize Slovenia ? An even "more latin" Croatia, or a Southern Slavic region/nation heavily influenced by Austria/Italy, or a rather undefined Southern Slavic culture or still something else ?
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