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 ::::::O, no... There are a lot people in Poland, Romania, Czech Republic and even Slovakia, who say something like this, but it's absolutely wrong, because we are ETHNICAL europeans: russian-slavic people came from Central Europe (East Germany), therefore we are ethnical europeans, and SIBERIA IS RUSSIAN COLONY, because natural Russia is Kiev-Rus Imperia. 
 Some people like hungaries and finnish people are NOT ethnical europeans, but they would ""europeaned"".Our national (not modern)culture is a part of Roman-German-Slavic culture (for example, you can compare bavarian and russian national songs and house architecture).We are not finnish people or hungarians and we should not be ""europeaned"", because we are anyway ethnical and cultural europeans. 
 2.Geografical barriers are not cultural barriers.We have ""europeaned"" Siberia and ""Far East"" and their cities were looking absolute same like german cities before the f..cking Bolshevics came and destroyed them... But they couldn't destroy all of them!Central Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Tomsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhniy Novgorod (who was a city of hansa!) etc.. today are looking as in 19-th Century and are the part of historical heritage of Europe as like barocco churchies and buildings in all russian countries! 
 Some people in Poland (up to 30%) for example tell, that Poland is a Westasian country, that Poland is not Europe... There are many people in Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, who think the same... There are some people in West-Germany, who tell, that so-called ""East Germans"" from formerly German Democratic Republic are NOT germans...There are a lot of people in Russia, who tell, that SIBERIA or MOSCOW are NOT RUSSIA... etc.Are you agree with all these idiots???Most of the people, who say something like that have very low standing of education and intellect... We should all understand, that this is a result of our low standing of intellects and soviets propaganda.WE ARE THE ONE NATION - EUROPEANS.  "