<sod>Eleven days after the Soviet invasion of the Polish [[Kresy]], the secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was modified by the [[German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation]],<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/nazsov/gsbound.htm|title=German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty|publisher=Yale|ref=harv}}.</ref>) allotting Germany a larger part of Poland and transferring [[Lithuania]]'s territory (with the exception of left bank of river [[Šešupė|Scheschupe]], the "Lithuanian Strip") from the envisioned German sphere to the Soviets.<ref name="wettig20">{{cite book|last=Wettig|first=Gerhard|title=Stalin and the Cold War in Europe|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|place=Landham, [[Maryland|MD]], [[United States of America|US]]|year=2008|isbn=0-7425-5542-9|pages=20–21}}</ref> On 28 September 1939, the Soviet Union and German Reich issued a joint declaration in which they declared:<eod>
<sod>Eleven days after the Soviet invasion of the Polish [[Kresy]], the secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was modified by the [[German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation]],<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/nazsov/gsbound.htm|title=German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty|publisher=Yale|ref=harv}}.</ref>) allotting Germany a larger part of Poland and transferring [[Lithuania]]'s territory (with the exception of left bank of river [[Šešupė|Scheschupe]], the "Lithuanian Strip") from the envisioned German sphere to the Soviets.<ref name="wettig20">{{cite book|last=Wettig|first=Gerhard|title=Stalin and the Cold War in Europe|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|place=Landham, [[Maryland|MD]], US|year=2008|isbn=0-7425-5542-9|pages=20–21}}</ref> On 28 September 1939, the Soviet Union and German Reich issued a joint declaration in which they declared:<eod>