“Kaliningrad is a war trophy, like Mariupol.” How did the Russian Kaliningrad region become? And is it threatened by the German “annexation” that the propaganda is talking about?
“Kaliningrad is a war trophy, like Mariupol.” How did the Russian Kaliningrad region become? And is it threatened by the German “annexation” that the propaganda is talking about?
A military invasion of Ukraine would rapidly isolate Russia on the international stage. Western countries do not stop the sanctions against Moscow and are increasingly rallying around Kyiv, supplying it to cancel the occupied territories. In this Europe, even more isolated is the already most isolated region and the western region of Russia – the Kaliningrad region, the so-called exclave in Europe between Poland and Lithuania, which the USSR seceded from Germany following World War II. Last summer, Lithuania already banned transit sanctioned cargo in Kaliningrad. Russian propaganda claims that Germany views the revanchist region, pre-World War II, as belonging to East Prussia. Journalist Dmitry Vachedin, who lives in Berlin, notes that in Kaliningrad there are cases when they arise, – he talks about this in the material. “German Atlantis” and the podcast “Text of the Week”.
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