Slovenia and Croatia are not Eastern Europe. Slovenia is a central european state. Croatia is both central and south(eastern) European where the southeast denotes Montengero, Albania, Greece, and such. Both countries are geographically on the Balkans. Socio-politically the places haven't been under the influence of the East Church or Islam and a lot of EE idionsyncracies don't apply here (babuska, gopnik memes, and such
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