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All this mess about Danzig... [122]
Now, I would like to draw your attention to some rather
unknown facts.
Two wonderful Baltic cities:
Danzig and Königsberg were destroyed
on purpose by the Red Army.
On purpose I said, after fights had been finished.
Then, in the post war times Danzig was carefully (as for commie habits) reconstructed.
Still some parts of it look like ruins of the Bronx (Nowy Port for example).
On the contrary, Königsberg was transformed into some
model Soviet city and renamed Kaliningrad in 1946 after the death of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Kalinin, one of the Bolsheviks
directly responsible for the Katyn crime.
Probably a very specific sense of Stalin's humor - Kaliningrad is close to the Polish border.
Brezhnev consequently ordered that the remains of the Königsberg castle be disposed of so they would no longer be seen as a vestige of Prussian militarism.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not blind because of some "patriotic" pride.
I have been many times both to Gdansk and Kaliningrad.
The difference is
striking - we can speak of the two different civilizations lol.
Devastated Soviet "gorod" surrounded by depopulated villages and towns you can find on the pre-ww2 map only, makes a picture of todays Kaliningrad.
Booming center with highest per capita income in Poland is Polish Gdansk.
That's probably the reason
I've never heard our German friends making any claims to Kaliningradskaya Oblast' lol.
Just joking - it's a typical German hypocrysy if you know what I mean.
