[Condor51]

*****Most of those Eastern European countries that fell behind the Iron Curtain (but not all) were members of the Axis powers (Bulgaria, "Slovakia", Romania, Hungry, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland).****

Lithuania was NOT an "Axis Power"

[mainepatsfan]

They were caught in the middle. The Soviets annexed them in 1940. The Germans overran them the next year. Then finally the Soviets returned a few years later and so the Balitc states remained part of the Soviet empire for half a century.

[Destro]

Lithunia was an ally of the Nazis - I will concede they may not have signed the Axis treaty but they were Nazi Germany's military ally.