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    Illiberal Europe

    Eastern Europe from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Ukraine

    by Leon Marc ...
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    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 - but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as widespread as ever. Slovenia still gets mixed up with Slovakia, the Slavs remain a mystery in a Europe apparently dominated by Romanic and Germanic ... Read more

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