File:EasternBloc BorderChange38-48.svg

Summary

e* Description: Former <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eastern_Bloc&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eastern Bloc (page does not exist)">Eastern Bloc</a> area border changes between 1938 and 1948.

• Source: Map borders primarily based on <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EC12-1986_European_Community_map.svg" title="File:EC12-1986 European Community map.svg">File:EC12-1986 European Community map.svg</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_map_of_Europe_in_1920.svg" title="File:Blank map of Europe in 1920.svg">File:Blank map of Europe in 1920.svg</a>.
• Author: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mosedschurte" title="User:Mosedschurte">Mosedschurte</a>, June 1, 2009

The border and other changes include:

• The creation of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Satellite_states&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Satellite states (page does not exist)">satellite states</a> (note: this was before the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tito-Stalin_split&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tito-Stalin split (page does not exist)">Tito-Stalin split</a> and the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Enver_Hoxha" title="Enver Hoxha">Hoxha</a> 1960 split)
• The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Occupation_of_the_Baltic_states&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Occupation of the Baltic states (page does not exist)">annexation of the Baltic states</a>
• The annexation of the territory encompassing most of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moldavian_SSR&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Moldavian SSR (page does not exist)">Moldavian SSR</a>.
• The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Transnistria" class="mw-redirect" title="Transnistria">Transnistria</a> transfer from the Ukrainian SSR to the Moldavian SSR
• The annexation of northern <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bukovina&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bukovina (page does not exist)">Bukovina</a>, the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hertza_region&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hertza region (page does not exist)">Hertza region</a> and northern <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bessarabia" title="Bessarabia">Bessarabia</a> into the Ukrainian SSR.
• The annexation of the area in 1948 approximating the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Izmail_Oblast&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Izmail Oblast (page does not exist)">Izmail Oblast</a> into the Ukrainian SSR
• The western part of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Territories_of_Poland_annexed_by_the_Soviet_Union&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union</a>
• The annexation into Poland of part of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/East_Prussia" class="mw-redirect" title="East Prussia">East Prussia</a> and the territories east of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oder-Neisse_line&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Oder-Neisse line (page does not exist)">Oder-Neisse line</a> from Germany
• The annexation into Poland of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Free_City_of_Danzig&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Free City of Danzig (page does not exist)">Free City of Danzig</a>
• The annexation of the the area now approximating the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaliningrad Oblast">Kaliningrad Oblast</a> into the RSFSR
• The annexation into Bulgaria of Southern <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dobruja&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dobruja (page does not exist)">Dobruja</a> from Romania
• The annexation into Czechoslovakia of the Bratislava Bridgehead transfer from Hungary
• The transfer of the Latvian SSR eastern <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abrene_district&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abrene district (page does not exist)">Abrene district</a> to the RSFSR
• The transfer of Estonian SSR territories north and South of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake_Peipus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lake Peipus (page does not exist)">Lake Peipus</a> to the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/RSFSR" class="mw-redirect" title="RSFSR">RSFSR</a>
• The annexation of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vilnius_region&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vilnius region (page does not exist)">Vilnius region</a> from Poland into what was in 1948 the Lithuanian SSR
• The annexation of part of the area approximating <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karelo-Finnish_SSR&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karelo-Finnish SSR (page does not exist)">Karelo-Finnish SSR</a>, and portions then transferred to the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/RSFSR" class="mw-redirect" title="RSFSR">RSFSR</a> (part of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Oblast" class="mw-redirect" title="Leningrad Oblast">Leningrad Oblast</a>)
• The annexation into the Ukrainian SSR of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carpathian_Ruthenia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carpathian Ruthenia (page does not exist)">Carpathian Ruthenia</a>
• The annexation into Yugoslavia of the Italian <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Istria" title="Istria">Istria</a> peninsula, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fiume" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiume">Fiume</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Zadar" title="Zadar">Zadar</a>.

Licensing

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