With the fall of communism, the former Soviet Union broke off into independent states. The denouement of the end of communism changed how Eastern Europeans related to their government. Now, they were ruling themselves. Many of these countries had to make peace with their past, which helped The Girl in Kherson them create a new sense of identity. However, most struggled to make sense of their new world, and this is a prevailing theme we can see in Eastern European politics from the fall of communism to the present day.
The last forty years of Eastern European history are the culmination of decades of repression and foreign rule. Each nation has its own experience with independent self-rule. Some achieved it peacefully, while others suffered violent bloodshed. The nations of Eastern Europe are still dealing with the repercussions of the violence of the past four decades to this day.
Over the course of Eastern European history, not one nation has remained stagnant. States led to empires, empires broke down into states, people migrated, and some left and moved somewhere else. Borders have been redrawn and redrawn again. The story of Eastern Europe is one of the waxing and waning of territory, control, and power, but it is also a tale of resilience.
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