It worked out OK for Finland, too. They lost 10% of their land but were outside the Iron Curtain. They were also the only country to pay their “ war debt” to USSR of $ 600,000,000 and their WWI debt as well.
Everyone who lived in the captured area left.
The Finns are the same people who butchered the Red Army in 1940 with Suomi submachineguns and captured Mosin-Nagants.
Always wanted to visit there but there’s a sauna in my building and I hate snow & anyway Finlandia vodka is available locally.