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Turning point · The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924
The Peace of Riga
18 Mar 1921 — Poland and Soviet Russia split the borderlands between them; the line holds until 1939. Millions of Ukrainians and Belorussians wake up on the wrong side of somebody’s new border.
This is one scene of Chapter 10 — 1920 — Warsaw and the Crimea in The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924.
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