Editing Lithuania Minor (section)

====Post-World War II====
[[File:Klaipeda Muzeum Historii Malej Litwy 1.jpg|thumb|upright|History museum of Lithuania Minor in [[Klaipėda]]]]
At the end of the war, the local German and Lithuanian population of the former East Prussia either [[Evacuation of East Prussia|fled or was expelled]] to the western parts of Germany. The Soviet Union recaptured Lithuania in 1944 and the Memel region was incorporated into the newly formed [[Lithuanian SSR]] in 1945 while the remainder of Lithuania Minor was divided between Poland (small parts now forming the [[Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship]]) and the Soviet Union (eastern part of the [[Kaliningrad Oblast]]).

After the death of [[Joseph Stalin]], [[Nikita Khrushchev]] offered the Kaliningrad Oblast to the Lithuanian SSR. Secretary [[Antanas Sniečkus]] refused this offer.<ref name="Milan Bufon 2014 97">{{cite book|author=Milan Bufon|title=The New European Frontiers: Social and Spatial (Re)Integration Issues in Multicultural and Border Regions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GpoxBwAAQBAJ&q=%22khrushchev+offered%22|year=2014|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|page=98|isbn=9781443859363}}</ref> In 2010, a secret document was found which indicated that in 1990, the Soviet leadership was prepared to negotiate the return of Kaliningrad to Germany against payment. The proposal was declined by German diplomats.<ref name="Milan Bufon 2014 97"/> After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Kaliningrad Oblast has become an exclave of Russia. Lithuania, Germany, and Poland lay no official claims to the region at this time.

[[Gołdap]] ({{langx|lt|Geldapė, Galdapė, Geldupė}}), the seat of [[Gołdap County]], a transitional county between Lithuania Minor and [[Masuria]], is the largest municipality of the region within Poland, making it the ''de facto'' capital of Polish Lithuania Minor, however, it is also considered part of Masuria and is not inhabited by an [[Lithuanians in Poland|autochthonous Lithuanian population]].