I hate the way how the term "Eastern Europe" is used. The misuse of the term drives me nuts and I get why many Central European countries get very upset when they are lumped in with a bunch of countries that have very little in common with their own cultures simply because these countries were also under the iron curtain. It reeks of ignorance. Historically Catholic/Protestant countries like Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary and Czech Republic have more in common with Germany, Austria, and each other and are vastly different to culturally Eastern Orthodox countries like Ukraine, Belarus, Romania Moldova, and Bulgaria (which I would categorize as actually "Eastern Europe") in terms of culture and attitudes. As for Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, I would put them under Northern Europe because of their historic links to Scandinavian countries like Sweden and Finland.