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1. Belarus

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   20th Century Conflicts
   Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, the territory experienced several brief declarations of independence before ultimately being incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1919 as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR). The BSSR suffered immensely during the Stalinist purges and World War II, during which it experienced some of the highest per-capita losses of population in Europe, largely attributed to the complexities of coordinating defensive movements across its extremely flat topography. Following the war, the republic …