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Is there a term to describe the cultural group associated with the once-USSR countries?

Most of them are in Asia, but referring to them as Asian doesn't seem to really fit when it comes to culture. And the area spans a large geographic area, so referring it to "North/Central Asian, East Asian, and Yugoslavian" does not really flow well. Also "USSR" does not sound like a good cultural term, even though the countries involved in the specific umbrella cultural group I'm trying to refer to are all former USSR countries. In context, I'm trying to talk about food to someone, and how I've never tried food from places that were once part of the USSR (except for pierogies from a dining hall, which spawned the entire conversation as I wanted to attempt to make them). I mean I could say "Polish," but just as one would say "Southeast Asian Culture" and "Vietnamese/Thai/Cambodian foods" I'm wondering what the umbrella term would be for the culture referring to all former USSR countries. And not all of them are Slavic so... yeah.

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California16

No. The former USSR is huge and is made up of many different ethic groups. Russians, Cossacks, Tatars, Kirgiz to name a few. Many see themselves as their own distinct cultures.

Pleiotropic

This is correct. They not only see each other as "distinct cultures" but in some cases have been at war, as Russians with Chechens and more recently Ukrainians.

TetrisGuy · 26-30, M

See, I'd draw a circle around Russia and the Stans, and Poland/Belarus/Baltics when it comes to culinary borders, just as I would draw a circle around Southeast Asia to encompass Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and other countries in that area. Sure they are different culturally, but their cuisines are very similar and their culture can be referred to as an umbrella term of "Southeast Asia." Similarly I'm looking for an umbrella term that refers to all these countries.

California16

something like the potoato munchers, the rice eaters, the pie faces, the taco faces, the cous cous hands in bog it in folk, the have nothing at all to eat zone - that kind of mapping out thing?