Originally Posted by
Mirkzat
My country was under several empires, and that didn't exactly change the roots of my ethnic group. We are and will be Eastern Europeans, even if we are in a totally ambiguous geographical position in Europe (Central, Eastern, bordering South).
Sorry to say, but being Slav makes you have more in common with Russians than any other non-Slavic Europeans. You can lick the arses of the Westerners, but you'll never be like them. You're Eastern in their eyes, in the eyes of historians, and in the eyes of Eastern Europeans. Deal with it.