Geography
This long river crosses Vienna, Budapest, Belgrad and throws into the Black Sea.
The Danube.
Former empire dissolved after WW1, that included Hungary, Tchecoslovakia, Austria, Southern Poland...
Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Polish name of the trade union whose leader was Lech Walesa.
Solidarnosc.
Spice used in the Central European cuisine.
Paprika.
Czech author of the Trial, the Metamorphosis, whose name is associated with bureaucratic complexity.
Franz Kafka.
Region beetween Hungary and Romania known for its legends.
Transylvania.
Right or wrong ?
In 1610, Poland occupied Moscow for 2 years.
Right, during the Ingrian wars.
He was the leader of the German Democratic Republic until shortly before the fall of the Berlin wall.
Erich Honecker.
Name of a famous dance from Bohemia.
Polka.
Actress born in Kiev in 1973 who played in The Fifth Element with Bruce Willis.
Milla Jovovich.
That mountain range runs from southern Poland to Romania, Slovakia, Western Ukraine...
The Carpathians.
The siege of this town ended in 1648.
Vienna (Austria)
This Polish general instigated the state of emergency in 1981.
Wojciech Jaruzelski.
This famous Russian cellist played near the Wall of Berlin during tis fall in November 1989.
Rostropovitch.
French-Polish producer, born 1933, who realized Dance of the vampires, Bitter Moon, The Pianist...
Roman Polanski.
Name of the main region of the Czech Republic along with Moravia.
Bohemia.
During these events (1948-1949), the Western Allies flew over West-Berlin to supply this town encircled by the Soviets.
The Berlin Blockade/ Airlift.
Name of the economic organization of the Eastern Bloc.
COMECON.
A dance from Poland that was popular in the salons of Europe during the 19th century.
Mazurka.
Famous Czech top-model and actress.
Eva Herzigova.
Capital of Estonia.
Tallinn.
Name of the admiral who was the leader of Hungary from 1920 to 1944.
Miklos Horthy.
He was the father of the Soviet doctrine dividing the world beetween the "imperialists" and the "democratic" socialists.
Andrei Zhdanov.
Czech name given to the beer.
Pivo.
Hungarian-US actress born 1917, who played in The road to Hong Kong, The Naked Truth..., known for her various mariages.
Sza Sza Gabor.