There is a similar apocryphal story about the border between Belarus and Lithuania. The story goes that Stalin had set his pipe down on the map, and no one dar

There is a similar apocryphal story about the border between Belarus and Lithuania. The story goes that Stalin had set his pipe down on the map, and no one dared move it, so they just drew around it. The result is a conspicuous bulge in the border South of Vilnius.