- According to Wikipedia, the entire population of Chechnya (about half a million people) was deported to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan during the second World War. The idea that an entire region would be cleaned out, and that they would only be able to return fifteen years later... Wow.

- Actually, all population transfers during and after WWII. Who ( Read more... )

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Maybe I'm the only one who will find this funny, but so be it. It's from the guide for foreign students by Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE) in Budapest, where I'll be studying next year ( Read more... )

Is Poland the Christ of Nations? (yes/no)
Please explain:

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This is how I feel about E. some days:

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I got rejected from the job in London I interviewed for... Not that I'm particularly (read: at all) qualified for finance, but it's a bummer nonetheless. The future is a whirlpool of uncertainty and despair. ALSO now I don't have a backup plan if Fulbright falls through, so I feel like the sword of Damocles is really hanging over my head... I ( Read more... )

So this is only interesting to myself and potentially Will, but look how Bela Bartok's biography encapsulates the changes that occurred in Central and Eastern Europe after the first World War:

"Béla Bartók was born in the small Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in Austria-Hungary (now Sânnicolau Mare, Romania). ...

Béla was a small and sickly child, ( Read more... )

AQ, I am laughing at myself as I post this.

From the Weekend events email: " This year's annual party at the conclusion of the Sager Symposium is
an exploration of sexuality in the past, present and future.  DU Lodge
will be transformed into Ancient Greece/Rome, Olde Club will host an
Eastern European theme complete with Red Light District, and ( Read more... )

Man, where have I heard a phrase like "fetishizing the other" before?

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