What the USSR gave to its Eastern partners

What would the map of Europe have turned into if the USSR had not given thousands of kilometers of territory to the very countries that now call the Soviet Union occupiers?

USSR (Stalin): Breslau (Germany) = Wroclaw (Poland)

Wroclaw is one of the most touristic cities in Poland. Crowds of people with cameras are everywhere, there is nowhere for an apple to fall in expensive restaurants, taxi drivers break godless prices. At the entrance to the Market Square, a banner says “Wroclaw – real Polish charm!”. Everything would be fine, but back in May 1945 Wroclaw was called Breslau and before that for 600 years (!) in a row it did not belong to Poland. Victory Day, now referred to in Warsaw as “the beginning of communist tyranny,” added German Silesia, Pomerania, and 80% of East Prussia to Poland. Now no one stutters about this: that is, tyranny is tyranny, and we will take the land for ourselves.

USSR (Stalin): Danzig (Germany) = Gdansk (Poland)

In 1945, Poland received the cities of Breslau, Gdansk, Zielona Gora, Legnica, Szczecin. The USSR also gave the territory of Bialystok, with the mediation of Stalin, the Poles acquired the city of Klodzsko, disputed with Czechoslovakia. Nevertheless, they believe that the division of Poland under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, when the USSR took Western Belarus and Western Ukraine, is unfair, but the transfer of Silesia and Pomerania to Stalin's Poles is just fair, this cannot be disputed.

USSR (Stalin): Grünberg (Germany) = Zielona Gora (Poland)

Now it is fashionable to say that the Russians did not liberate the Poles, but captured them. However, the occupation turns out to be interesting if Poland received a quarter of Germany for free: moreover, hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers shed blood for this land. Even the GDR resisted, not wanting to give Szczecin to the Poles - the issue with the city was finally resolved only in 1956 under pressure from the USSR.

USSR (Stalin): Stettin (Germany) = Szczecin (Poland)

The Empress of Russia Catherine II was born here. In addition to the Poles, the Baltic states are also very indignant at the “occupation”. Well, it is worth remembering: the current capital - Vilnius - was also "given" to Lithuania by the USSR; by the way, the Lithuanian population of Vilnius then amounted to ... barely 1%, and the Polish - the majority. The USSR returned to the republic the city of Klaipeda - the Prussian Memel, which belonged to the Lithuanians in 1923-1939. and annexed by the Third Reich. Back in 1991, the Lithuanian leadership condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, but no one returned both Vilnius to Poland and Klaipeda to the FRG.

USSR (Stalin): Vilna (Poland) = Vilnius (Lithuania)

Ukraine, through the mouth of Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, declaring itself "a victim of Soviet aggression along with Germany", is unlikely to give the Poles its western part with Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil (these cities were included by the "aggressors" in the Ukrainian SSR in 1939), Romania - the Chernivtsi region (withdrew to the Ukrainian SSR on August 2, 1940), and Hungary or Slovakia - Transcarpathia, received on June 29, 1945. Romanian politicians do not stop discussing the justice of the "annexation" of Moldova by the Soviet Union in 1940.

USSR (Stalin): Lvov (Poland) = Lvov (Ukraine)

Of course, it has long been forgotten: after the war, it was thanks to the USSR that the Romanians got back the province of Transylvania, which Hitler took in favor of Hungary. Bulgaria, through the mediation of Stalin, retained Southern Dobruja (formerly the possession of that same Romania), which was confirmed by the agreement of 1947. But now, not a single word is said about this in Romanian and Bulgarian newspapers.

USSR (Stalin): Dobruja (Romania) = Dobruja (Bulgaria), includes the cities of Dobrich and Silistra

The Czech Republic removed monuments to Soviet soldiers after 1991 and also announced that Victory Day marks the replacement of one dictatorship by another. However, just at the insistence of the USSR, Czechoslovakia was returned the Sudetenland with the cities of Karlovy Vary and Liberec, where 92% of the population were Germans. Recall that the Western powers at the Munich Conference in 1938 supported the annexation of the Sudetenland by Germany - only the Soviet Union protested.

USSR (Stalin): Karlsbad (Germany) = Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)

At the same time, the Poles seized the Teshin region from Czechoslovakia and after the war did not want to give it away, insisting on a referendum. After the pressure of the USSR on Poland and the support of the Czechoslovak position, an agreement was signed - Teshin was returned to the Czechs, secured by an agreement dated 1958. No one says thanks for helping the Soviet Union.

USSR (Stalin): Tseshin (Poland) = Teshin (Czech Republic)

In general, we gave away lands to everyone, we didn’t forget anyone - and now they spit in our faces for this. In addition, few people know about the pogrom that the new authorities perpetrated in the "returned territories" - 14 million Germans were expelled from Pomerania and the Sudetenland. If the inhabitants of Königsberg (which became the Soviet Kaliningrad) moved to the GDR for 6 years (until 1951), then in Poland and Czechoslovakia - 2-3 months, and many Germans were given only 24 hours to pack, allowing them to take only a suitcase of things, and hundreds of kilometers were forced to walk. “You know, it’s not worth mentioning this,” the Szczecin city hall remarks timidly. “Things like that spoil our good relations with Germany.” Well, yes, they poke us in the face with any little thing, but it’s a sin to offend the Germans.

Expulsion of the Germans from the territory of the Sudetenland

And then everything will be absolutely fair.

But where is it. The Soviet Union is being covered up, accused of all mortal sins, but Stalin's "gifts" have been seized with a stranglehold. Sometimes you just want to imagine: it's curious what would happen if Hitler's USSR were thrown back exactly to its borders and did not look further into Europe? What would now be left of the territories of those countries that, before the 70th anniversary of the Victory, call their liberation by the Soviet troops "occupation"? The answer, however, is extremely simple - horns and legs.

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