Image: EasternBloc BorderChange38-48

Description: e* Description: Former Eastern Bloc area border changes between 1938 and 1948.

Source: Map borders primarily based on File:EC12-1986 European Community map.svg and File:Blank map of Europe in 1920.svg. Author: Mosedschurte, June 1, 2009

The border and other changes include:

The creation of the satellite states (note: this was before the Tito-Stalin split and the Hoxha 1960 split) The annexation of the Baltic states

The annexation of the territory encompassing most of the Moldavian SSR. The Transnistria transfer from the Ukrainian SSR to the Moldavian SSR The annexation of northern Bukovina, the Hertza region and northern Bessarabia into the Ukrainian SSR. The annexation of the area in 1948 approximating the Izmail Oblast into the Ukrainian SSR The western part of the Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union

The annexation into Poland of part of East Prussia and the territories east of the Oder-Neisse line from Germany The annexation into Poland of the Free City of Danzig

The annexation of the the area now approximating the Kaliningrad Oblast into the RSFSR The annexation into Bulgaria of Southern Dobruja from Romania The annexation into Czechoslovakia of the Bratislava Bridgehead transfer from Hungary The transfer of the Latvian SSR eastern Abrene district to the RSFSR The transfer of Estonian SSR territories north and South of Lake Peipus to the RSFSR

The annexation of the Vilnius region from Poland into what was in 1948 the Lithuanian SSR The annexation of part of the area approximating Karelo-Finnish SSR, and portions then transferred to the RSFSR (part of the Leningrad Oblast) The annexation into the Ukrainian SSR of Carpathian Ruthenia

The annexation into Yugoslavia of the Italian Istria peninsula, Fiume and Zadar.
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