Czechs are pretty universally considered eastern European, so yes, absolutely. It’s not about geographic position, it’s about what side of the the wall they fell on. The side of the nazi appears or nazi killers.
That is a very oddly binary take on geopolitics. Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia in the 70s, Yugoslavia was one of the founders of the Non Aligned Movement.
Okay, universally disregarding ultra-nationalist nazi types that believe eastern europeans are subhuman heathens, which I don’t consider to be worth considering.
The only real point of contention in the ‘eastern european’ designation amongst the czech population is those that are so incredibly racist they still don’t consider romanians a civilized species and refuse to be lumped together with them in any way.
As the other responder pointed out, this is not a simple issue (also at some point we switched from Slovenia to Czechia). There are at least two ways the east/central/west distinction applies. The first is geographical - every point that claims to be the middle of Europe is in or to the east of Czechia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe), so geographically it’s pretty clearly not eastern (which again, the original Wikipedia link also says - pretty sure they’re not all Nazis).
Politically it’s a more complex thing. A common American interpretation is “part of the Soviet bloc”. By that definition, yes, eastern Europe. But, there’s also a not uncommon perception that this means it’s a not well off country that is behind because of communism (see the movie Eurotrip for an example in pop culture). People who are in those countries would like to not have this association, so “central” is a way to avoid the Cold War era east/west split.
Slovenia is Eastern Europe?
Czechs are pretty universally considered eastern European, so yes, absolutely. It’s not about geographic position, it’s about what side of the the wall they fell on. The side of the nazi appears or nazi killers.
That is a very oddly binary take on geopolitics. Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia in the 70s, Yugoslavia was one of the founders of the Non Aligned Movement.
Universally by whom? Have you asked the Czechs? Wikipedia has it in central Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic
Okay, universally disregarding ultra-nationalist nazi types that believe eastern europeans are subhuman heathens, which I don’t consider to be worth considering.
The only real point of contention in the ‘eastern european’ designation amongst the czech population is those that are so incredibly racist they still don’t consider romanians a civilized species and refuse to be lumped together with them in any way.
As the other responder pointed out, this is not a simple issue (also at some point we switched from Slovenia to Czechia). There are at least two ways the east/central/west distinction applies. The first is geographical - every point that claims to be the middle of Europe is in or to the east of Czechia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe), so geographically it’s pretty clearly not eastern (which again, the original Wikipedia link also says - pretty sure they’re not all Nazis).
Politically it’s a more complex thing. A common American interpretation is “part of the Soviet bloc”. By that definition, yes, eastern Europe. But, there’s also a not uncommon perception that this means it’s a not well off country that is behind because of communism (see the movie Eurotrip for an example in pop culture). People who are in those countries would like to not have this association, so “central” is a way to avoid the Cold War era east/west split.