For a time the Eastern half of the continent was terra incognita for us too, one with 'Here are communists' written on the map instead than 'Here are lions'. It was the land of Russian fairy tales, Russian classics, a couple of Polish and Hungarian novels and smuggled dissident works...
But that was between Yalta and the fall of the wall, I think 23 years is enough for us Europeans °and° the rest of the world to go back to 'see' Europe as a whole (admittedly I still feel stunned when I think that direct communication with someone living in Poland, Albania or Romania is now commonplace and risk-free).
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Date: 2012-05-09 09:26 pm (UTC)But that was between Yalta and the fall of the wall, I think 23 years is enough for us Europeans °and° the rest of the world to go back to 'see' Europe as a whole (admittedly I still feel stunned when I think that direct communication with someone living in Poland, Albania or Romania is now commonplace and risk-free).