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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 9588561, member: 78949&quot;]Sorry to jump in the discussion (very interesting and informative, as usual here), just to remind that Koeningsberg was given as a trophy to Stalin by his comrades USA and UK. It has never been Russian before that (as far as my historical knowledge suggests), and was populated with Germans who were forcibly expelled and moved to Siberia by Stalin shortly after the war. Then it was renamed after the Soviet nomenclaturchik&nbsp; Michail Kalinin and made an important port of the Russian nuclear navy. And populated with over a million ethnic Russians.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have read that Khrushchov offered it to Lithuania in the 1950s (when he gave Crimea to Ukraine) but the then communist ruler of Lithuania Antanas Sniečkus refused to take it because of fears of the 1 Million Russians who would automatically become Lithuanian citizens and will shift significantly the ethnic balance with all the consequences. Which proves that some Communist leaders had brains.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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