No. Everything east of the German / Austrian / Italian border was part of the Eastern block, which was the east / west clivage for about half a century.
What's coming back is the pre-cold-war delineation where areas of orthodox primacy north of the black sea are eastern europe, south of it are south-eastern, and the catholic areas are central, northern, southern and western (with the iberic peninsula often being split out as southwestern).
Basically before WWII "Western Europe" was France, the British Isles and the Low Countries.
Really, never heard that before. In my circles even part of Germany is secretly considered Eastern Europe. Maybe it's more political than geographical. Don't know.
>Western Europe includes Italy, Spain, Portugal and UK, too.
It does, but there's also the North/South division (even within a single country, like Italy, but even more so generally).
South Europe is not really "Western" in this sense (and in other senses, e.g. with respect to religious heritage and ethics, catholicism and orthodoxy vs protestants, etc).
Spain and Italy are Western Europe by post-WW2 geo-politics, but a better definition would be to say they are Southern Europe which, by developer pay, is even worse than Eastern Europe that most devs there have long moved north to the point where I doubt they're many left there.
To my knowledge, Italy has never been part of the Eastern Block.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc
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