


While the rebuilding of cities began, some of the war-torn towns were left to rot, leading to masses of empty decaying buildings being taken back by the environment. Subsequently, the Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth was free of Soviet control in 1989 and sought help in rebuilding their nation from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

The Soviet Union then took the Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth under their arms in the Warsaw Pact and created a satellite state during the beginning of the Cold War.įollowing the occupation of Livonia by the Soviet Union, Nadbór had become a breeding ground for anti-Soviet resistance, and partisan activity followed World War II for decades to come until they were stomped out by the Soviets in the mid-1960s. After years of war, the Soviet Union pushed back the Germans leading to a costly defeat. When war inevitably began the Nazi Germans invaded Poland-Lithuania and laid their eyes on the Soviet Union (USSR). The countries had little time to celebrate their independence though because World War II was closing in. The grounds hosted multiple crusades over the course of centuries until a Polish republic and a re-established democratic Lithuania was proclaimed in 1918. At the start of the 12th century, Livonia was an area of economic and political expansion by mainly Danes and Germans. Livonia, German Livland, lands on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, north of Lithuania the name was originally applied by Germans in the 12th century to the area inhabited by the Livs, a Finno-Igoc people whose settlements centered on the mouths of the Western Dvina and Guaja rivers, but eventually was used to refer to nearly all of modern Latvia and Estonia.
