Molotov Line

Molotov Line Map

Bunker of the former Molotov Line near Siemiatycze , Podlachia

The Molotov Line was a defense system named after Vyacheslav Molotov , which the Soviet Union in 1939 occupied Eastern Poland as well as in completely occupied Lithuania along the secret additional protocol to the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty of August 1939 border to the German Reich and the German General Government erected.

The Stalin Line , which was built on the border with Poland from 1929 , was dismantled. At the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union , both lines were not operational. The approximately 1000 kilometers long Molotov Line from the Baltic Sea to the Carpathian Mountains or Slovakia was divided into 13 sections. In each section, a few dozen bunkers had been completed and hundreds under construction at the beginning of the war .

See also

• Positions and lines of defense in World War II

literature

• Neil Short: The Stalin and Molotov Lines . Osprey, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-1-84603-192-2 .

Web links

Commons : Molotov Line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fortifications of the Molotow Line in southern Poland near Sanok -Załuż- Lesko and Przemyśl .
• Molotov line: Statistics
• Slovaks against the Molotov Line (I.)
• Slovaks against the Molotov Line (II.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Neil Short: The Stalin and Molotov Lines . Osprey, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-1-84603-192-2 , pp. 5 .