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EndlessWire

(6,537 posts) Fri Mar 4, 2022, 05:35 PM Mar 2022

The Suwalki Gap

This is an interesting bit of geography that you can know about, just in case.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/20/this-tiny-stretch-of-countryside-is-all-that-separates-baltic-states-from-russian-envelopment/

The article has a couple of really good maps showing this little sliver of land which seems so important. I never heard of it.

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The Suwalki Gap (Original Post) EndlessWire Mar 2022 OP

Hmm, very interdasting... yagotme Mar 2022 #1

Thanks, I'd never heard of it either. but now I have! nt abqtommy Mar 2022 #2

Kaliningrad has been controlled by many others: maxsolomon Mar 2022 #3

yagotme

(2,919 posts)

1. Hmm, very interdasting...

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Fri Mar 4, 2022, 06:01 PM

Mar 2022

Like the Polish corridor at the beginning of WW2.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

2. Thanks, I'd never heard of it either. but now I have! nt

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Fri Mar 4, 2022, 06:34 PM

Mar 2022

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)

3. Kaliningrad has been controlled by many others:

Reply to EndlessWire (Original post)

Fri Mar 4, 2022, 07:02 PM

Mar 2022

Konigsburg was Polish, then Prussian, then Russian, then Prussian again, then German.

It was seized by the USSR at the end of WW2, when Stalin took several territorial prizes.

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