Poland became an independent state following the First World War (Picture: Getty) During the First World War, the three partitioned areas of Poland were pitted against each other as Russia was on ...

Kaliningrad is an isolated chunk of Russia, a little bigger than Cape Breton, wedged between Poland and Lithuania. It’s historically western European and only became part of the USSR after the ...

During the Soviet era, the town — home to more than 10,000 soldiers of the Northern Group of Forces — was a world unto itself, scrubbed from maps and off limits to Poles without special entry ...