The story
From blood + lands, coined as the title of a book, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), by Yale historian Timothy D. Snyder.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
bloodlands
Today it means: A region comprising modern-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and the Baltic states, where the 20th-century regimes of Stalin and Hitler interacted to cause significant suffering and bloodshed. Full definition →