Western Belorussia or Western Belarus is a historical region of modern-day Belarus which belonged to the Second Polish Republic during the interwar period. For twenty years before the 1939 invasion of
Children gathered at the dining hall of the Belarusian Gymnasium of Vilnia, Poland, 1935
Polish families deported to Siberia after the Soviet annexation of the eastern regions of the Second Polish Republic.
Residents of a town in Eastern Poland (now Western Belorussia) assembled to greet the arrival of the Red Army during the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. The Russian text reads "Long Live the great theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin-Stalin". Such welcomings were organized by the activists of the Communist Party of West Belarus affiliated with the Communist Party of Poland, delegalized in both countries by 1938.
Western Ukraine or West Ukraine refers to the western territories of Ukraine. There is no universally accepted definition of the territory's boundaries, but the contemporary Ukrainian administrative r
Western Belorussia
…Polish majority. The largest Polish organization in Belarus is the Union of Poles in Belarus (Związek Polaków na Białorusi), with over 20,000 members. Western Ukraine Soviet raid on Stołpce…
Old Town of Lviv, the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia from 1272 to 1349 and nowadays, the most populated city of Western Ukraine
Old city and Catholic churches in Uzhhorod, showing the influence of Western Christianity on Western Ukraine
Fortress of Kamianets, a former Ruthenian-Lithuanian castle and a later three-part Polish fortress
The Carpathians in the Zakarpattia Oblast are the highest mountain range in Ukraine