How much dark and depressing eastern European history can a person take?  Seriously, over the last hundred years or so the people of countries like Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, just to mention a few, have been invaded, subjugated, divided, raped and pillaged, cities flattened, minorities rounded up and killed, entire economies absolutely decimated.  It might be the Bolsheviks, the Nazis or the Communists, depending on the moment … Continue reading →