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The Eastern Front in 1946

In one of the most unknown, yet complete genocides ever committed, Stalin begins his redrawing of the European borders under his own ethnic lines, which, unsurprisingly, results in more territory for the USSR.  Millions of Germans in East Prussia, Silesia and Pomerania who have not yet starved to death in the intervening year, are forcibly displaced and sent Westward.  Konigsberg, the capital of East Prussia, is renamed Kaliningrad and nowadays is a Russian city, with no German traces remaining.  It is estimated  that up to four million former German inhabitants of the Eastern German territory die as a result of this purge.

Germany is not alone, as Poles are removed from their historic homes and placed in the former German territories.  Russians and Ukrainians will be the ones to populate their former homelands.  The huge Polish war cemetery in Galicia is now in the enlarged Ukraine, and this is a hugely contentious issue between the two Nations, even to the present day.

The ensuing division of Germany, communist rule in the likes of Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia, and the cold war, ensure the aftermath of this huge conflict remain felt, even to the present day.