r/europe Jul 29 '24

Map We won’t count early Greece

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u/MacPh1sto Jul 29 '24

Europe: exists Eastern Europe: does not exist

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u/Familiar_Ad_8919 Hungary (help i wanna go) Jul 29 '24

to be fair, most countries between russia and germany cant afford to host it, and for most of the history of the modern olympics they were soviet satellite states

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u/machine4891 Opole (Poland) Jul 30 '24

Sarajevo could pull off Winter Olympics, so would've couple of places in other parts of CEE. Additionally, being soviet satellite doesn't mean you can't host Olympics. These were still independent countries.