Polish

Vinokur pulled the trigger a second and third time. "You're lying, you Polish cunt!" he screamed.

2007, Elazar Barkan, Elizabeth A. Cole, Kai Struve, Shared History, Divided Memory, page 287:

As we mentioned the only chemical used in Polish meats or sausages was potassium nitrate even though the list of food additives allowed in Europe was long and impressive.

2009, Stanley Marianski, Adam Marianski, Miroslaw Gebarowski, Polish Sausages: Authentic Recipes and Instructions, page 13:

Of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language.

pollanda

relating to inhabitants of Poland; citizens

პოლონური

relating to everything except the people


Poland

→ Japanese: ポーランド (Pōrando)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der.
Proto-Slavic *poľe
Proto-Slavic *-janъ
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Slavic *-inъ
Proto-Slavic *-janinъ
Proto-Slavic *poľaninъder.
German Polebor.
English Pole
Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *landą
Proto-West Germanic *land
Old English land
Middle English lond
English land
English Poland
1560s. From Pole + land, a phono-semantic matching of German Polen (“Poland”), from Old Polish Polanie (“Poles”, literally “field dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *poľane, plural of *poľaninъ (“field dweller”), from *poľe (“field”) + *-ěninъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, wide”).

der

After leaving the Soviet Union, we made a brief visit to one of the captive nations — Poland.[...]A quarter of a million people turned out that Sunday. Despite the presence of Soviet troops, and the fact that they share a common border with the Soviet Union, on that Sunday the people of Poland demonstrated dramatically not only their friendship for the United States but also their detestation of their Communist rulers and Soviet neighbors.

1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 213:

The next stop was Warsaw, to meet with President Lech Walesa and emphasize my commitment to bringing Poland into NATO. Walesa had become a hero, and free Poland's natural choice for president, by leading the Gdansk-shipyard workers' revolt against communism more than a decade earlier. He was deeply suspicious of Russia and wanted Poland in NATO as soon as possible. He also wanted more American investment in Poland, saying the country's future required more American generals, "starting with General Motors and General Electric."

2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 185–186:

Republic of Poland
Republic of Poland#English

A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw.


vodka

en-noun

vodka (countable and uncountable, plural vodkas)

vodkas (plural)
vodki (alternative)
vodky (alternative)

→ Cebuano: bodka

→ Welsh: fodca

From Russian во́дка (vódka), from вода́ (vodá, “water”) + -ка (-ka, “-let: forming diminutives”). The archaic Russian name for vodka was хле́бное вино́ (xlébnoje vinó, “grain wine”); V. Pokhlyobkin's research suggests the present name derived from expressions concerning the dilution of the initial pure distilled spirit such as "vodka of grain wine".
Cognates include Sanskrit उदक (udaka), Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr) → English hydro-, English whisky and English water.

standards of identity
standard of identity

(US standards of identity) Neutral spirits distilled (or treated after distillation) so as to have no distinctive character, aroma, taste, or color.


Silesia

Uncertain. Two theories are prominent: a relation to the Germanic Silingi tribe, whose name is attested in Ancient Greek Σιλίγγαι (Silíngai). Or, from Old Polish ślęg, śląg meaning "dampness, humidity, moisture." More at Ślęża and Silesia.

A region in central Europe, now chiefly in Poland, with small portions in the Czech Republic and Germany, from early modernity until 1945 predominantly German-speaking with Slavic-speaking minorities (and local majorities).


Warsaw

en-proper noun

Warsaw (countable and uncountable, plural Warsaws)

Masovian Voivodeship
Masovian Voivodeship#English

The capital city of Poland; capital city of the Masovian Voivodeship.

Kosciusko County
Kosciusko County#English

A city, the county seat of Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States.

A home rule city, the county seat of Gallatin County, Kentucky, United States.

A city, the county seat of Benton County, Missouri, United States.


Gdansk

Pomeranian Voivodeship
Pomeranian Voivodeship#English

Alternative spelling of Gdańsk, the capital city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland


Gdańsk

Borrowed from Polish Gdańsk. Doublet of Danzig.


zloty

en-noun

zloty (plural zloty or zlotys or zlote or zlotych or zloties)

zloty (plural)
zlotys (plural)
zlote (plural)
zlotych (plural)
zloties (plural)
złoty (alternative)

The currency unit of Poland, divided into 100 groszy.


złoty

A special working fund administered by the State Agricultural Bank was established to meet all expenses connected with the measures necessary for improving the agrarian structure of the country. In the beginning it amounted to 900,000,000 złotys. After a cancellation of part of its obligations due on small farms, the balance by December 31, 1938, was more than 667,000,000 złotys.

1945, Bernadotte E[verly] Schmitt, editor, Poland, Berkeley, Calif., Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, pages 228–229:

Accordingly, if the estate is worth 90,000 złotys and the deceased leaves a widow A, and two children B and C, and B has already received 60,000 złotys, the calculation is as follows:- the value of a notional estate equals 150,000 złotys (90,000 + 60,000) and each share amounts to 50,000 złotys.

1973, D. Lasok, editor, Polish Civil Law, volume I, Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, →ISBN, page 270:

Once in the field, the Sonderdienstmann received 90 złotys per month with a supplement of 11 złotys per month when on active duty outside the normal duty station. By the summer of 1941, Sonderdienst men were receiving benefits, including free housing and uniforms as well as an untaxed food allowance of 2.70 złotys per day.

2005, Peter Black, “The Sonderdienst”, in Pieter M. Judson, Marsha L. Rozenblit, editors, Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe (Austrian and Habsburg Studies; volume 6), New York, N.Y., Oxford: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 250:

At one extreme, Symeon Szydłowski, the castellan of Żarnów, suggested exempting parish priests with less than 3,000 złotys from the new tax. At the other, Suchodolski protested that poor nobles with families on 500 złotys a year would also find defenders.

2012, Richard Butterwick, The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788–1792: A Political History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 92:


Kashubian

/kəˈʃuːbɪən/

Casubian (alternative)
Cassubian (alternative)
Cashubian (alternative)
Kash. (alternative)

A Slavic language spoken in the Pomeranian region of Poland.


hetman

From Polish hetman, probably from Middle High German houbetman, heuptman (“commander”), from Old High German houbitman, from Proto-West Germanic *haubidamann. Compare modern German Hauptmann (“captain”), Haupt, Mann. The Polish e in hetman attests to a borrowing from an East Central German dialect, in which Middle High German -öu- gives -ē-. Doublet of head man.

Title used by the second-highest military commander in Poland and Lithuania (15th to 18th century).

getman

a historical military commander in various Eastern European countries


mazurka

Via German Mazurka and Russian мазу́рка (mazúrka), from Polish mazurek (“dance of the Masurian”), the Masurians being the inhabitants of Mazowsze (compare Medieval Latin Mazovia), an ancient cultural region in east-central Poland.

der

(music) A Polish folk dance in triple time, usually moderately fast, containing a heavy accent on the third beat and occasionally the second beat.


Vistula

/ˈvɪst͡ʃʊlə/

The longest river in Poland, which flows into the Baltic Sea.


Pole

A person from Poland or of Polish descent.

лях

now sometimes slightly derogatory or ironic


pierogi

en-noun

pierogi (plural pierogi or pierogies or pierogis)

pierogi (plural)
pierogies (plural)
pierogis (plural)
pierogie (alternative)
pierogy (alternative)
pirogi (alternative)
pirogy (alternative)
pirojki (alternative)
pyrogy (alternative)
pyrohy (alternative)
perog (alternative)
pierog (alternative)
pieróg (alternative)

Borrowed from Polish pierogi, the plural of pieróg (“dumpling”), which ultimately is derived from Proto-Slavic *pirъ (“party”). Unrelated to Turkish börek. Doublet of pirogi (from Russian), pirohy (from Czech and Slovak), and pyrohy/pedaheh (from Ukrainian).

(Canada, US) A square- or crescent-shaped dumpling of unleavened dough, stuffed with sauerkraut, cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, onion, meat, or any combination of these, or with a fruit filling.

波兰饺子 (Bōlán jiǎozi, literally “Polish dumpling(s)”)


Baltic Sea

A sea in northern Europe, connected to the Atlantic.


Silesian

(uncountable) Lower Silesian, a Germanic language or dialect spoken in southwestern parts of what is now Poland (Lower Silesia).

Slezská němčina

Germanic language or dialect — see also Lower Silesian

(uncountable) Upper Silesian, a West Slavic language spoken in southwestern parts of Poland and the Czech Republic.


Pomeranian

Among their dialects the Rhine Franconian and Moselle-Franconian varieties prevailed, but other dialects were present as well, such as Upper German Swabian, Low German Westphalian, Pomeranian, and the Mennonite varieties, and even Volga German.

P. Rosenberg, Dialect convergence in the German language islands (Sprachinseln), in: 2005, Peter Auer, Frans Hinskens, Paul Kerswill (eds.), Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, p. 221ff., here p. 228

… the language of everyday use is characterized by a wide panorama of local dialectal variation, ranging from Low German dialects in the north (e.g. Low Saxon, Westphalian, Pomeranian), through Central German dialects (e.g. Hessian, Thuringian, Silesian) to the High German dialects of the south (e.g. Bavarian, High Alemannic, Alsatian and Franconian) …

2011, George L. Campbell, Gareth King, The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World's Languages, 2nd ed. (1st ed. 1995), p. 238, inside the section German

A second important isogloss that separates Pomeranian from the other Low German variants, … These strong morphemes are absent in the North Sea Germanic area, as well as in Pomeranian.

2019, Gertjan Postma, A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today 248), p. 6


Established in the United Kingdom as the first emergency service number in the world, initially chosen because of its suitability at a time of rotary-dial telephones.

nine nine nine (alternative)
triple nine (alternative)

The telephone number for ambulance services in Poland.


Galicia

From Medieval Latin Gallicia or Gallitia, from Old East Slavic Галичь (Galičĭ, “Halych, a city in present-day Ukraine”), ultimate origin uncertain.

der

The czar had declared the "liberation" of the Ukrainian minorities inhabiting the eastern portion of the Austrian imperial province of Galicia, the Austrian portion of partitioned Poland, to be one of Russia's objectives.

1996, Lonnie R. Johnson, chapter 9, in Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends, page 175:

A historical kingdom in Central Europe, now divided between Poland and Ukraine.


Selected by the European Union as the 3-digit number fastest to dial on cellular and rotary phones without the likelihood of accidental dialing caused by hanging up a landline telephone, sometimes interpreted by phone networks as a 1.

When you call 112 in the United Kingdom, the call is automatically rerouted to 999 operators.

The telephone number for emergency services on all GSM cell phones and in the EU, Russia, United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Ukraine, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome, the Seychelles, Uganda, East Timor, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, North Macedonia, Vatican City, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Saint Vincent.


grosz

Borrowed from Polish grosz. Doublet of kurus.

A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Polish zloty.


babcia

These cakes are from family recipes, from great-grandmothers and babcias, from kitchens as far apart as Knoxville, Tennessee, and Warsaw, Poland.

2001, Whispers from Heaven for the Christmas Spirit, Publications International, Ltd., →ISBN, page 273:

I visited my babcia Lottie Korosz in Hunlock Gardens and all the relatives on my mother’s side of the family. My babcia Jadwiga Gobolewski died while I was still in Washington, but my grandfather Wiktor greeted me warmly in Glen Lyon.

2008, Gene Gomolka, Coal Cracker’s Son, Xlibris, page 191:

My babcia would only stare morosely at photographs of my father’s father, showing me the black and white albums, their youth in Poland, the countryside, the funny dress, the world outside a world outside a world of memories and lost hopes.

2010, Jaap Stijl, Pacing the Bird, Greenwinter Press, →ISBN, page 9:

But there’s no question she’s brought Polish food back to the neighborhood—the menu features potato pierogi, golabki, borscht, kielbasa, and a few items you probably wouldn’t recognize if you didn’t grow up with a babcia cooking for you.

2010 January 14, Mike Sula, “Not Your Babcia’s Pierogi”, in Chicago Reader:

However, with the increased geographic mobility in Poland after 1989, and the greater push to look for jobs in other cities, fewer relatives are on hand to provide child care. Women who had babcias considered themselves lucky.

2015, Joanna Mishtal, The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland (Polish and Polish-American Studies Series), Ohio University Press, →ISBN:

The Germans were “kind” to some families in Poland, too. Just not us. What difference did it make if you were kind to some, if you were beating and stealing others’ mothers and babcias? I suddenly understood more than my father did.

2019, Rachel DeWoskin, Someday We Will Fly, Viking, →ISBN, page 49:

My babcia was hired to attend funerals and weep for those who had few friends or family members.

2021, Creating Inclusive Writing Environments in the K-12 Classroom: Reluctance, Resistance, and Strategies that Make a Difference, Routledge:

There are many women in these processions, many of them old babcias with cheeks pink as a young girl’s under their flowered headscarves.

THE AGED IN POLAND: GOD AND WORN-OUT BABCIAS

1971, Letters to the Alicia Patterson Fund on the Status of the Elderly in Various Societies Around the World, page 1:

The tram was packed, and I stood squeezed among three cabbage- and apple-breathed babcias heaving their bosoms and bristling out to the curly white hairs on their furious chins because a man, also among us and smelling of gin, was weeping.[…]All the way across the river and to the zoo, while the three babcias took turns saying how bad he was, the man examined his bits of metal and paper, and wiped the quiet tears rolling out to the end of his nose.

1988, The Georgia Review, pages 605–606:

Babyboomers now are starting to “get it” regarding wisdom dispensed by Babcias.

1995, The Polish Studies Newsletter, page 4:

[…]babcias, adolescents and students, children and parents, the elderly, and they are generally well-dressed.

“That’s the first time you’ve mentioned your mother,” Cindy stammered. “Is she in good health?” “Oh, yeah,” Jerry said with a startled chuckle. “She’s one of those tough old Polish Babcias. She’s gonna like you, for sure.”

2017, Joanne Bunyak, On Hunter’s Point, Xlibris, →ISBN:

Gaggles of babcias were standing by the side of the road, with baskets of products.[…]The babcias informally kept order when formal grass enforcement personnel weren’t around.[…]I’d watched him [Donald Tusk] many times on TV, as the babcias of Poland laid complaint after complaint at his feet – their living conditions, the failures of his and every other government, probably the fact that their children never visited them.[…]Summer was technically in full swing but Central Europe hadn’t got the memo – it couldn’t have been more than eight degrees. A solid stage-two coat night. It wasn’t stopping the young couples huddling on the benches, nor the babcias walking rugged-up babies in prams.

2018, Jay Martin, Vodka and Apple Juice: Travels of an Undiplomatic Wife in Poland, Fremantle Press, →ISBN:

In the old days, Polish people went to great lengths to let the world know they had a suitable daughter. They would decorate the house with wreaths and special colors of paint. In Krakow, for example, they would paint the whole house light blue. When a suitable boy saw this, he would have to go to the town’s intermediary, a babcia or wise woman, to intervene with the girl’s family.

2019, Bob Dombrowski, Paczki Day: Stories About Growing Up Polish in Detroit, Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

She’d chat with the babcias who ran the bakery and called her the Angel of the Market, or with Eva, who sold ropes of hair extensions and gave Fahima a leopard print shawl that Fahima’s mother wouldn’t let her wear as a hijab.[…]It was the busiest weekend of the year, when all the babcias in the city descended on the market to buy butter lambs and crown roasts.

2019, Bob Proehl, The Nobody People, Del Rey, →ISBN:


Poznań

A city in Poland, alternative spelling of Poznan


Katowice

Any English traveller approaching Katowice will be strongly reminded of Lancashire.

1848, The New Central European Observer, volume 2, page 117:

Trains from Warsaw to Vienna now go by the shorter route from Warsaw to Katowice instead of via Cracow.

1922, United States Department of Commerce, Commerce Reports, volume 3, page 47:

On visiting Katowice in southwest Poland, Jeremy Melvin met up with Archistudio, the architects of a substantial new judicial precinct that is due for completion in 2008.

2006, Valentina Croci, The New Europe, volume 76, page 104:

Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Voivodeship#English

A city in southern Poland; capital of the Silesian Voivodeship.


Lodz

Łódź Voivodeship
Łódź Voivodeship#English

The capital city of the Łódź Voivodeship, Poland, also spelled Łódź.


Varsovian

Varsovians (plural)
Warsovian (alternative)

Someone living in or originating from Warsaw.


Poznan

Poznań (alternative)
Posen (alternative)


Cracovian

/kɹəˈkəʊvɪən/

Formed as Latin Cracōvia (“Cracow”) + English -an (suffix forming adjectives with the sense “of or pertaining to”). Equivalent to the Latin Cracōviānus.


Cracovian

/kɹəˈkəʊvɪən/

Being used to horses from their childhood, the Cracovians are excellent riders.

1921, National Polish Committee of America, Geography and ethnography of Poland:


makowiec

MAKOWIEC. (Poppy-seed. roll).

1957, Sula Benet, Festive recipes and festival menus, page 147:

If you have a cookie spatula, slide it under the makowiec and transfer it to the baking pan.

2007, Greg Patent, A Baker's Odyssey, page 219:

She was trained by the nuns to be their cook and therefore she learned to make very beautiful and sumptuous gourmet dishes, including croissants and delicious fancy desserts. Her makowiec was the best I have ever tasted.

2011, Frank Cebulski, Lonely Nights and Wild Women: Concrete Visual Shaped Poems, page 54:

(rare) a Polish cake (flat or rolled) layered with poppy seed-based paste


Polonized

en-adj

Polonized (comparative more Polonized, superlative most Polonized)

more Polonized (comparative)
most Polonized (superlative)

The orthodox clergy everywhere preached a crusade against the Jesuits and Uniates, and everywhere the peasants rose against the Polish or Polonized pans.

1886, Alfred Rambaud, The History of Russia from the Earliest Times to 1877:

Germans arriving in rural parts of Prussia and Poland became Polonized, and though they predominated in the towns, this was not invariably the case and by the sixteenth century, German was no longer understood in Cracow.

2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 96:


Carpathians

Borrowed from Latin Carpates; compare the Germanic form attested in Old Norse Harvaðafjǫll, of which no past or present English counterpart is known (but which may have existed at some stage).
Possibly from the name of the Carpi, an ancient, probably Dacian, tribe living in the eastern Carpathian region of what is now Romania and the Moldova region. The name Carpates may ultimately be from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)ker- (compare Albanian karpë (“rock”), Aromanian shcarpã, also Proto-Slavic *skala (“rock, cliff”)), perhaps via a Dacian cognate which meant “mountain”, “rock”, or “rugged” (compare Proto-Germanic *skarpaz (whence sharp), Lithuanian kar̃pas (“cut, hack, notch”), Latvian cìrpt (“to shear, clip”)). Compare also archaic Polish karpa (“rugged irregularities, underwater obstacles/rocks, rugged roots or trunks”), Romansch crap (“stone”). Alternatively, the name may come from Proto-Indo-European *kʷerp- (“to turn”) (whence wharf and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”)), perhaps referring to the way the mountain range bends or veers in an L-shape.
According to Eichner and Çabej, it derives from Proto-Albanian *karpātai (“mountanous place”)

der

A large mountainous system in Central Europe, mainly in Transylvania (Romania) and the Polish (Subcarpathian)-Slovak border region.


spirytus

Borrowed from Polish spirytus. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, sprite, spright, and esprit.

doublet

A Polish rectified spirit, used in medicine and for the preparation of alcoholic infusions called nalewka.


pospolite

Borrowed from Polish pospolite ruszenie (“a general summons to arms, an arriere-ban”, literally “general stirring”).

bor

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

(historical, military) A former militia in the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, consisting of the gentry, which, was summoned to defend the country in the event of an invasion


Szczedrzyk

From the Polish spelling of the village's name. Compare Sczedrzik, from the German spelling.

2010, Merle W. McMorrow, A Long Short Life, page 217: Her descendants originated from Eastern Germany and the Ukraine. Her paternal grandfather, Frank Jonietz, was born October 8, 1855, near the Oder River in Upper Silicia in the village of Szczedrzyk.

A village in what is now Poland, what was formerly Germany.


szlachta

(historical) A legally privileged noble class in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.


Rzeczpospolita

/ʒɛt͡ʃˌpɒspəˈlaɪtə/

/ʒɛt͡ʃˌpɒsˈpɒlɪtə/

Unadapted borrowing from Polish rzeczpospolita.

ubor

The Polish endonym referring to the Polish State, Rzeczpospolita Polska, the official Polish name for the Republic of Poland.


krupnik

A traditional alcoholic drink made from vodka (or other grain spirit) and honey, popular in Poland, Belarus, and Lithuania.


Old Polish

A historical form of the Polish language, spoken between the 9th and 16th centuries.


Sarmatism

(historical) The belief that the people of the Polish Commonwealth descended from the ancient Sarmatians, the legendary invaders of Slavic lands in antiquity.


Polono-

From Latin Polonia, on the model of Anglo-, Franco-, Sino- etc.


zubrowka

en-noun

zubrowka (countable and uncountable, plural zubrowkas)

zubrowkas (plural)
zubrovka (alternative)
żubrówka (alternative)

Borrowed from Polish żubrówka (“bison grass”), from żubr (“European bison”) + ówka.

A dry straw-colored liqueur of vodka flavored with herbs, originally from Poland.


Polonophile

Edgar Allan Poe was a self-declared Polonophile and an admirer of Poland's struggle for regaining independence.

A person who admires Poland or its culture, cuisine, history or people.


Home Army

During World War II, the Home Army was the largest underground army in Europe organized to fight the German (and Soviet) occupying forces.

(history) the dominant Polish resistance movement in Poland, occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, during World War II.


żubrówka

żubrówka (countable and uncountable, plural żubrówkas)


urban-rural gmina

urban-rural gmina (plural urban-rural gminas)

A type of gmina comprised of rural communities and at least one settlement with city rights.


Young Poland

Yet the turn-of-the-century Young Poland writers and artists in Kraków took an even deeper interest in peasants.

2014, Patrice M. Dabrowski, Poland: The First Thousand Years, Cornell University Press, page 367:

(historical) The modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature, and music which lasted from the end of the 19th century to 1918.


Suwalki gap

the Suwalki gap (canonical)
Suwalki Gap (alternative)
Suwałki gap (alternative)
Suwałki Gap (alternative)

And on the A4 autobahn in eastern Germany, a U.S. Army captain and his Macedonian counterpart rushed toward the Suwalki Gap — the place many war planners predict will be the flashpoint for a NATO war with Russia — hoping the overheated radiator on their Stryker armored combat vehicle wouldn’t kill the engine.

2024 April 24, Helene Cooper, “NATO Puts on a Show of Force in the Shadow of Russia’s War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The strip of NATO-controlled territory along the Polish–Lithuanian border, separating Russia (Kaliningrad) from its ally Belarus.