Corrections and Clarifications.In the letter by Varga and Ember published in the November 2000 issue of EHP EHP abbr. 1. effective horsepower 2. electric horsepower [Comments on "The Worst of Both Worlds: Poverty and Politics in the Balkans." EHP 108:A494 (2000)], the former Soviet republics were incorrectly included in the Visegrad countries. The former Eastern bloc During the Cold War, the term Eastern Bloc (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and its allies in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and—until the early 1960s—Albania). consists of three regions: the Balkans, the Visegrad, and the former Soviet states. The Visegrad countries include the Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. , Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary. EHP is sorry for the error. |
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