Eastern Europe’s populations, especially Poland and the Ukraine, were poor, often uneducated, and lacked the manners and sophistication of the Western European elites. Due to these great differences, Western European intellectuals often showed contempt for the Eastern Europe masses living in the lands that stretched from Poland to the Russian steppes and from the Ukraine to the Balkans.
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Eastern Europe’s populations, especially Poland and the Ukraine, were poor, often uneducated, and lacked the manners and sophistication of the Western European elites. Due to these great differences, Western European intellectuals often showed contempt for the Eastern Europe masses living in the lands that stretched from Poland to the Russian steppes and from the Ukraine to the Balkans.
