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The misery of Eastern Europe's small nations .. causes such great suspicion and irritation in Western European observers. This leads many people to conclude that the entire region.. .should be abandoned to its fate...This region's inability to consolidate itself is not due to its inherently barbarian nature, but to a series of unfortunate historical processes which squeezed it off the main course of European consolidation...We should not give up on the idea of consolidating this region if for no other reason than for the fact that today, after 30 years of great confusion, we can clearly see the course of consolidation; after the passing of mutual hatreds, occupations, civil strife, and geno-
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