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Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 11:11
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Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Poor border
mapping example and straight borders
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com,
"anorak222"
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wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com,
"Jesper Nielsen"
<jesniel@i...>
wrote:
>
> > PLRU seems straight, but looking at a good map
will
indicate line drawn with vodka in the blood.
>
> I've
heard it described as "Stalins Schwertschlag" (Stalin's
sword stroke). Is
it known how it was exactly decided?
stalin said he wanted konigsberg
for reparations & revenge
but first trashed it to make sure no one else
would want it
& the potsdam agreement of 2aug45 already mentioned a
plru
line drawn due east from danzig bay to modern ltplru explicitly
leaving braunsberg goldap in poland
so thats already a pretty
straight line in everyones mind
& there is a suggestion you are right
about missing towns too
in the fact that at least 1 town was already
explicitly missed by it
tho not yet by means of adding any bends in the
line
since it actually dips toward rather than away from this
town
but the exact definition may have taken 2 more weeks to work out
since there was a polish soviet border treaty of 16aug45
contents
unknown
but perhaps someone can find it
for it might contain evidence of
deliberately missing the other
towns
if that task wasnt just left for
the boundary survey commissioners
themselves to eventually work out as
they tippled along
anyway there is some considerable doubt that it is
legal
in case that matters for it to count as being straight
I
have this image of someone drawing a line with a ruler, and
when they
noticed that the line would run through existing towns,
they added little
bends. How was it really done? Who drew the
border?
>
>
> Regards
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