Ths is a less than momentous observation - since the Soviet Union picked up Poland and redrew it west 100km after the war - screwing East Germany, adding land to Ukraine & Byelorus - there's been a captured Polish population east of the Polish border, plus as always a similar culture & speech between these 3 Slavic countries. Slovakia also lost a tail of its eastern Carpathian edge where Warhol's family's from. Ukraine's also a major outsource center - low-cost advantages due to *not* being in the EU - while supplying guest workers for menial labor in Czech and Slovak Republics as well - they are essentially the region's Mexicans - good skilled work, low wages, little trouble. Turkey at one point was the same for Germany - but likely Erdogan has made that prospect riskier than the pragmatic, forward-looking sectarian governments that preceded him. Now Turkey's just another Muslim-focused country with its once EU-looking areligious tech/businesscommunity now sidelined and the free press repressed. Back when Turkey was a technology leader with pro-western values & living conditions, I was pissed at EU countries for kneecapping their efforts for closer access to the EU. Now that they've retranched, I like so many have just given up hoping - maybe next generation it'll be reversed, but I said that about Iran 40 years ago, and Afghanistan 30. Seems I better live a lot longer.