Funny tragedy.Europe as commonly thought of in the US is "western Europe", IE The UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain, plus Russia. Give our education system some credit, we generally know the major colonial powers that settled north America plus Germany and Italy, and of course Russia has been a longstanding opponent of the US so folks know it.
Now, between Germany and Russia... might as well be a blank map area. In fairness to many Americans, up until the late 1980s the way the Soviet Union ran the Warsaw Pact there really wasn't much distinction from East Germany to Russia... it was all "Soviet Bloc" to the US.
USA sold us-no gave away for free- in 1945 to soviets,and americans forget about that and though,that countries which they sell to Hell are part of mentioned Hell.