Why is it that west European countries are generally bigger, more stable and more ethnically homogeneous, and East European countries are less so?

Question

I am mainly thinking of UK, France, Germany, Spain as big, but all of them (with the possible exception of Ireland) could be thought of as stable, ie no wars or revolution since WW2.

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Answer 1

We had colonies, industrial revolution hit us first and we didn’t lose a cold War

France won a lot of wars. The UK once was the biggest empire.

The Netherlands owned the Dutch indies and did a lot of trading.

Stuff like that