Map of Eastern Europe shared by Bette Midler

[BootinUp]

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[Deuxcents]

1. Love it..hope you don't mind but I'm gonna forward it

[BootinUp]

5. please do!

[msongs]

2. I married a German. every night I dress up like Poland & he invades me - B Midler

one of her more famous lines

[RockRaven]

3. While not commenting on the justice of what is deemed Russia, the map is slightly mislabeled...

Because the bit below Lithuania ( "RUSSI-" ) labelled with "A" is in fact part of Russia. Whether it ought to be or not, at present it is. So that attempt at cleverness looks kind of ignorant.

Whoever made this would have been better off just labelling Lithuania with a "RUSSIA" to complete the Baltic phrase and left that little bit blank like they did Moldova and others.

[MyOwnPeace]

9. Oh, Rock........

Sometimes you just really take the 'fun' out of a party!

PICKY - PICKY - PICKY!!!!!!!



AND after reading some later posts - you've got friends!!!!

Come on people, this isn't a 'Jay Leno' bit on 'Who Knows Geography' - it's about getting RUSSIA the 'F' out of places where they don't belong!!!!!

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[frogmarch]

6. The A section

under the Baltic countries Estonia (ALSO), Latvia (NOT) and Lithunania (RUSSI-) is Kaliningrad, which is part of Russia.

[Beartracks]

8. There's a part of Russia that's not attached to Russia?

This is ringing a bell, like it was part of a movie plot somewhere.

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[Lucky Luciano]

13. Yup. There is also a tiny enclave of Russia entirely inside Belarus.

It is a couple miles from the main Russian border.

Sankovo-Medvezhye it’s called near Gomel, Belarus.

There are actually a lot of these kinds of oddities in the world like Melilla and Ceuta…part of Spain that should be Morocco. Belgium and Holland have a lot of these enclaves and exclaves.

[frogmarch]

15. Kaliningrad (Kaliningrad Oblast) is a city that is

part of the Russian Federation. An oblast (there are more than 40) is a federal subject of Russia and operates much like a state does in the U.S. Once part of East Prussia, Kaliningrad was taken over by the Soviet Union after WWII.

Kaliningrad is the only oblast separated from Russia by other countries. I don't know if any krais and okrugs are, but maybe this page will tell you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia

[Gore1FL]

7. The region listed as "A" actually is Russia

Moldova is not marked as not Russia, bit is indeed, not Russia.

[DFW]

10. Frogmarch and Rock ARE correct, though

That little enclave, the old East Prussian capital of Königsberg, was annexed by Stalin and renamed Kaliningrad. In the days after WWII, no one had any appetite to fight over it, and so it became a detached enclave of Russia, and has been on the maps as such ever since.

[Cha]

11. Rt TY & Bette Midler! Brilliant!

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[L. Coyote]

12. K & R

[smirkymonkey]

14. Love the hat!