German populations affected by the population exchanges were primarily the Baltic Germans and Bessarabia Germans and others who were forced to resettle west of the Curzon Line.
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Instead, the final Peace of Riga ( or Treaty of Riga ) provided Poland with almost of land that was, on average, about east of the Curzon line.
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The line became a major geopolitical factor during World War II, when Joseph Stalin invaded eastern Poland and split its territory along the Curzon Line with Adolf Hitler.
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In 1921, Polish troops crossed the Curzon Line, the border between ethnic Polish and ethnic Ukrainian and Belorussian territories and seized 7 percent of Lithuania's territory in 1920.
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It was sung in 1923 at the rally in Leningrad against the Curzon Line, the " British seas " acquiring new significance in view of Lord Curzon's ultimatum.
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Before the end of August, Poland agreed to cede the eastern provinces to the Soviet Union and officially recognized the eastern border based on a slightly modified Curzon line.
37.
The town was captured by the were expelled and replaced by Poles from regions east of the Curzon Line, in particular from the former Polish " Kresy Wschodnie ".
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Polish settlers, who themselves had been expelled from areas east of the Curzon Line, arrived with about nothing, putting an even higher pressure on the remaining Germans to leave.
39.
"n . " The Polish communists attempted to obtain modifications of the Curzon Line that would result in Poland retaining Vilnius, Lviv and the oil fields of Eastern Galicia.
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As the new border between the postwar Poland and the Soviet Union along the Curzon Line ( requested by Stalin at next transfer took place after Stalin's death in 195559.
