Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: MJackson.Wbst@Xerox.COM Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Aside to Lithuania Message-ID: <15502@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 12 Apr 90 00:56:04 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 21 Approved: military@att.att.com From: MJackson.Wbst@Xerox.COM Michael Reed writes: > One of the interesting geopolitical/strategic points which noone seems to > have realized is that, should Lithuania actually [be allowed to] secede, a > chunk of territory between Poland and Lithuania which is actually part of > the Republic of Russia (!) will be isolated from the Soviet Union (!!). > Its name escapes me at the moment,. . . ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ "East Prussia." :-) Actually, it isn't a separate political entity. It's an isolated pocket of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, which includes 50% of the population and 75% of the territory of the USSR and otherwise extends from the Baltics, Byelorussia, and the Ukraine eastward to the Pacific. Mark