--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> But the Russians treat that border differently. They put some nice
> markers along them, to be used as a backdrop for pictures of
> tourists.
Likewhere there are several points who claim themselves midpoint of
Europe. Of course it depends on how you measure - even if
the "border" is agreed you can still define it as the meeting point
of diameters connecting the extreme points, vs. the centre of gravity
of landmasses. The results will be very different. I think there's a
place in Lithuania which claims midpoint (not sure based on which
measurement), and another in Eastern Poland(?). A third somewhere in
Southwest Germany, of which I doubt they have any claim to the title
no matter how measured. They're so close to the Atlantic their feet
are wet.
> There is no way that the Russians
> will ever divide their country along that line, for example in
order
> to become an EU member.
Surely, if we let Russia in the EU, we'd let all of it in including
Siberia and Vladivostok? I mean, we allow those French with their
overseas départements too :).
> By the way, I think it was Stalin that said that Russians
> are "really" Asians. And this was expanded to the fellow socialist
> peoples in eastern and central Europe. They didn't like it; nor do
> most Russians like it now.
I don't like it, and I'm not Russian. Russia has a European-based
culture (Vikings, Greek, Slavs), they speak an Indo-European
language, they have a Christian religion, and even communism is of
European origin.
Regards