February 3, 2026[UPDATED] Countries in which an official language is primarily written in a script developed within their modern-day borders Maps
February 2, 2026In 1946, the USSR claimed part of Turkey’s territory, with Lavrentiy Beria claiming the Ottoman Empire had stolen it from Georgia. The claim was abandoned after Stalin’s death in 1953. Maps
February 2, 2026Map of 1944 Morgenthau Plan. It suggested Germany being split into roughly 3 equal parts and be fully deindustrialized and demilitarized. Germany would be turned into a pre-industrialized agricultural society and Germans would be made to serve in labor camps across the world as war reparations. Maps
February 2, 2026Territories demanded by Netherlands as reparation after WW2. Proposal was rejected by Allies as it would stress out housing and rehabilitation in Germany too much due to millions of forced deportations when state was already suffering from it due to mass deportation of Germans from East and Czechia. Maps
