Eastern Europe

"In Eastern Europe, it is a nest of communism, and is famous for the Warsaw Pact as well. Since the golden days of communism are all but ended when the 1989 revolutions turned these communist regimes into democracies. Now there's a New Warsaw Pact coming on soon, I think."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Ukraine's Doomsday

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent. There is no consensus on the precise area it covers, partly because the term has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and socioeconomic connotations. There are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region." A related United Nations paper adds that "every assessment of spatial identities is essentially a social and cultural construct."