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D. The Russian semi-exclave of Kaliningrad is south and west of Lithuania. Kaliningrad is cut off by land from the rest of Russia’s territory. It is mostly surrounded by Lithuania and southern neighbor Poland. Like Lithuania, Kaliningrad borders the Baltic Sea to the west. Latvia is Lithuania’s northern neighbor, and Estonia is the northernmost.
D. The Baltic States and Poland are building bunkers and anti-tank defenses along their borders with Russia and Belarus. Estonia and Poland now spend bigger shares of their national wealth on defense than the United States. The Baltic States recently connected their electrical grid to their NATO military allies instead of Russia.
B. In March 1990, Lithuania became the first country to declare full independence from the Soviet Union. Latvia and Estonia followed the next May. It wasn’t until the Soviet Union officially dissolved in December 1991 that 12 other nations – including Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine – were formed from the former USSR.
A. What was called the "Cold War" ended with the Soviet breakup. The war was an intense rivalry between the United States and the USSR that began after World War II and included many proxy wars around the world. A former Lithuanian defense official said Putin invaded Ukraine because the former Soviet spy “cannot accept having lost the Cold War.”