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To: SeeSharp

“Most of the European territory that became the USSR was handed to them at Versailles.”

Russia got nothing from Versailles - they were excluded from it; the territory the Germans took, as well as additional territory, was used to create the new (sometimes “renewed”) states of Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland.


93 posted on 04/23/2011 10:31:03 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: kearnyirish2

And Belorus, Ukraine, plus parts of Czechoslovakia and Romania. And from the territories of the Ottomans: Trans-Caucases Republic [Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan].


131 posted on 04/24/2011 3:20:42 AM PDT by DJ Elliott (Montrose Toast Blog)
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