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When it comes to defining Eastern Europe, the saying goes, there are as many definitions as there are scholars. Now one of them, Polish-American Jacob Mikanowski, argues that whatever held the region together in the mind's eye until now, might be finally gone. Dan Damon asked him about what's been lost. (Image: 'Solidarnosc' (Solidarity) leader Lech Walesa addresses striking workers at the Gdansk shipyard in Poland,1988 Credit: Getty Images)