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Anybody wanting to win a few bets from well-informed friends can probably do so by putting the following question: Within the lifetime of Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), what was the largest independent European State? Answer: Lithuania, which stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and in depth extended from the Polish border to the east of Kiev. In 1386 Lithuania's Grand Duke Jogaila married Poland's Queen Jadviga and became the Polish King...
Charles XII of Sweden invaded Russia in 1707 to punish Tsar Peter for raids on his Baltic provinces. Peter drew him beyond his depth...
...basis of this attack, and also as the southern jaw of the master pincers, German troops, supported by Rumanians, cut into Bessarabia, the area which Russia grabbed from Rumania in June 1940. Main Russian defenses were behind the Dnieper; Bessarabia looked as easy to take as the Baltic States...
...Swedish spokesmen declared that Sweden would stay neutral. But there were rumors that Sweden's forces, including her pocket battleships expressly designed for Baltic fighting, would soon be used against Russia...
...Europe and its exploitation by Germany. Remarkably foresighted chiefly because he took the Germans' plans seriously, André Chéradame wrote after reading this brochure, in 1901: "The inevitable war between Germany and Russia will finish this undertaking. If it is successful, Germany will annex the Baltic provinces, Esthonia, Livonia and Courland. She will set up a Polish state and a Ruthenian kingdom to which will be sent the Jews and the Slavs who will emigrate from the Greater German Empire. . . . Pan-Germany will have 86,000,000 people, and the territory subjected to its direct and exclusive...