Errors on maps

Poland as seen by Russia. And great gift for my country - whole Kaliningrad area. Image taken from the opening ceremony of Winter Olympics in Sochi 2014.

Quite interesting essay in Wall Street Journal. Enjoy reading! click here

Euro 2012 as seen in the Netherlands. Find Poland! No comments ...

This time I wanted to check what can we find on the Web sites. There is not much to the subject, I have found some old maps but no revelations. Accidentally I have found three images. This is map of present-day France. At last France moves its eastern border to the East. Such a typical error occurs when a presentation has to be done ASAP. Of course France is expected to be represented by the cities, but them again moved much too far to the East. Another typical press map error. Slovakia and Slovenia are frequently mistaken for non-Europeans as well as Western Europeans. Slovakia with an Mediterranean sea border presented on the picture above. Once again CNN. As we remember from elementary school, one of the southern neighbours of Germany is Switzerland... But if so, where is Czech Republic?

Priviet malcziki i d'evoczki! Today we learn about our Europeans Soviet Republics. These are Litovskaya SSR, Latvinskaya SSR, Estonskaya SSR. These 3 countries were so astonished by our Soviet culture, that decided to join our Communist country. Belaruskaya SSR, Ukrainskaya SSR join their native territory, and so Moldavska SSR did , while their previous authorities were compromised by their lousiness. We will soon present our friendship to these puny Polish and Romanians! Geograficzeskij Atlas dla sredniej szkoly CCCP, Moskva 1940 Straight talk In the communist lesson from above we could learn a bit of propaganda language. 17 September 1939 Soviet Union entered the eastern part of Poland with the reason to take care of Belarus and Ukraine from the war. The real reason was to fulfill the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact , committing the shares in Eastern Europe between Nazis and Soviets. Soon after the entry, Soviet authorities were established in all occupied Polish cities. In 1940...