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Martin68

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1. I had never heard of Kaliningrad. Interesting history. Captured by Russia at the end of WWII, Germans expelled,
Tue Jul 16, 2024, 02:16 PM
Jul 2024

Soviet citizens moved in to populate it. A weird relic of the Soviet empire, with no historical relationship to Russia until it was invaded in 1945. There was a flurry of articles on the enclave's strategic significance from NATO's perspective in 2022, but not much since then.

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