[lifestyleguru]

> If Eeastern Europeans had the chance to flourish and were not getting abused by both Germany and Russia for most of their history they would be in an entirely different tiers of countries.

To my knowledge for at least last few decades all countries from Poland down to Bulgaria have been happily corrupted and pillaging their own populace and pushing out their working age populace into emigration. Now with their demographics there no one left to even emigrate anymore.

[mathverse]

That's a relict of Soviet occupation and mindset. pre-war Czechoslovakia was one of the most prosperous countries in the world.

[lifestyleguru]

Pre WWII?! That's loong time ago. Many countries live by their pre-WWII, or even pre-WWI "glory days".