Molotov Line

The Molotov Line was a defense system that built the Soviet Union in 1939 occupied eastern Poland as well as in the fully occupied Lithuania along the set of August 1939 in the secret protocol to the German -Soviet Border and Friendship Treaty border to the German Reich and the German General Government.

Built on the border with Poland in 1929 Stalin line was dismantled. At the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union both lines were not operational. The about 1,000 km long Molotov Line from the Baltic to the Carpathians and Slovakia was divided into 13 sections. In each section a few dozen bunkers were completed at the outbreak of war and hundreds under construction.