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after Lithuania to the southeast is a small part of Russia that is surrounded by these other countrys. Why hasn't that peace of land been taken over yet?

2007-03-07 12:35:04 · 10 answers · asked by fuzzystuff511 2 in Travel Europe (Continental) Russia

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So your question of reviving of Prussia. With the end of the Hohenzollern monarchy in Germany following World War I, Prussia became part of the Weimar Republic as a free state in 1919. Prussia as a state was abolished de facto by the Nazis in 1934 and de jure by the Allies of World War II in 1947. Since then it was taken over by Russian Federation.

And who has to take it over? Germans or Allied forces? That would mean another war. In fact Russian Federation has not renounced its rights to any part of land they annexed and joined to Russia or Russian Federation from other countries. No matter how much they were traying to prove that it's theirs.

2007-03-07 21:02:55 · answer #1 · answered by Yuliya P 7 · 3 0

Who would take it over? Kaliningrad is a mess. Originally Konigsburg it was part of Prussia and wasn't isolated as another poster suggests as it stretched to Latvia and down to the Danzig corridor. Lithuanians call it Little or lesser Lithuania but now the population is almost all Russian, no Germans, few Lithuanians and few Poles. I can't think of either Poland or Lithuania wanting to absorb such a large Russian population into their states so it will be left as yet another Potsdam mistake.

2007-03-08 21:27:27 · answer #2 · answered by drakshug 3 · 2 0

Kaliningrad hasn't been annexed by Lithuania or anyone else because it is still very important to Russia because it is the only Russian Baltic Sea port that is ice-free all year. Since Lithuania is independent and in the EU, they no longer can use Lithuanian ports for Russian trade and so Kaliningrad is essential for Russian ship commerce in the Baltic Sea.

2007-03-08 21:39:47 · answer #3 · answered by penance76 1 · 0 0

That area of the world, the river basins that flow into the south-eastern shore of the Baltic Sea starting with The Vistula River (Wisla now in Polish) almost all the way up to Lake Peipus in the North originally has been inhabited by Balts, ancestors of Lithuanians and Latvians. Slavic tribes the ancestors of Russians and Poles invaded those areas from further down South and East. Centuries of conflict continues to this day due to these ethnic differences. In the areas of present Westerly Russsia, Northern Ukraine, and Byelorussia, Balts were conquered by Slavic tribes and assimilated, so these fusion-type of cultures, not pure Slavic ones strictly speaking, that is why they are different in language and some customs from Russians and share a number of similarities with Balts (Lithuaninans and Latvians) and they have been prosecuted by Russians. Now that LITTLE AREA what is known as Kaliningrad (prior WWII it was know as Lithuania Minor) and Northern Poland were once Prussia. Prussians were Balts, Germans aided by Slavs in the Middle Ages by means of warfare, oppression, slavery, and genocide helped by plagues continued exterminating and conquering Balts in Prussia until the end of WWII. In the Middle Ages, Germans also invaded Latvian area and tried just that there as well because Balts were devout Pagans, while the rest of Europe succumbed to Catholicism or Orthodox Christianity. Balts on a number of occasions returned the nasty favour. After WWII Communist Russia and Western powers divided the area the way they saw fit. Russians seeing that the Balts had been exterminated in Lithuania Minor area decided to claim that LITTLE AREA for themselves, renamed it Kaliningrad and repopulated it with ethnic Russians. Poland repopulated the rest of Prussia with Poles. The worst genocide in Baltic area was started by Russians just at the same time as Hitler started with Jews. Now this time not only Balts suffered but Finish, Estonians and Jews as well as other Slavs that were not Russian were to be done away with. Cold War effort eventually slowed down a systematic cultural extermination by Russians and led to the collapse of European and some Asian Parts of Russian Empire (propaganda would like us to think of it as the former USSR). However Russians will not give up Kaliningrad and will gladly go to war over it cause its their only all-year-round, ice-free access to the Baltic Sea. And nobody wants war with Russia knowing what they are capable of. Hope this helps.

2007-03-08 22:00:01 · answer #4 · answered by Saguadnim 1 · 2 0

While the main question bas been answered, I would like to indicate that Estonia is also "to the left" of Russia.

2007-03-08 06:29:55 · answer #5 · answered by witeczek2002 6 · 0 0

The place is named Kaliningrad and is a part of the Russian federation. Before second world war it was just as isolated in the middle of Poland, belonged to Germany, and was called Königsberg.

2007-03-07 14:49:06 · answer #6 · answered by luosechi 駱士基 6 · 4 2

Becouse its motherland of east slavs group......In Ukrania is first russian capitol-Kiev,capitol of country RUS; wich was in anciant,Belorus is like Russia,but russians was had there their state at empire times of Russia,so only after it,belorussians got local place,like mine region,ukranians are like other russiand wich live in south,they different only at hait,we have black-dark hair.......like night....so only government separated russiand at our ancian local motherland from west ukranian land to east-north of europen russian land

2007-03-07 20:54:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Because it belongs to Russia as it was and as it should
I justv love Russia and Siberia

2007-03-11 03:20:23 · answer #8 · answered by Lorna 2 · 0 1

Because it's Russia's land, and diplomats probably decided that it would stay that way. Otherwise, people would go to war, and it would become pretty messy.

2007-03-07 12:39:23 · answer #9 · answered by lazerybyl 3 · 3 1

You have wrong news

2007-03-09 08:24:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

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