Meaning of "Bloodland"

[Arcadian Rises]

I'm trying to find out the meaning of "bloodland" but couldn't find it
in the usual dictionaries.
I don't think a context is required, but just in case I've just read
that Lithuania is called by historian Timothy Snyder the "bloodlands
of Europe."

[Jerry Friedman]

That wasn't enough context for me.

"Between 1933 and 1945, some 14 million people were murdered in the
"bloodlands" of Europe by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, according
to the historian Timothy Snyder..... Snyder's focus is on what he
christens the bloodlands - the areas of eastern Europe that were
occupied by both the Germans and Soviets during those terrible 12
years."

http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/264926/monitor-staff-and-contributors-share-their-summer-picks?page=full

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Jerry Friedman

[Arcadian Rises]

> http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/264926/monitor-staff-and-contri...
>
> --
> Jerry Friedman

You're right about context and especially about going as close as
possible to the original source.
I relied on the third, if not fourth, fifth...in article about a
Canadian athlete:

<Irene Piotrowski was born Irena Macijauskas in 1941 in Lithuania -- a
place that historian Timothy Snyder calls the "bloodlands of Europe.">


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/penka-skachkova/irene-piotrowski_b_1846629.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-nb%7Cdl26%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D214118