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[–] 72 points 10 months ago

Thinking of a Paradox game run where this will become (the only) Russia

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  • [–] 40 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    I learned about this bit of territory like last year

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  • [–] 47 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    This little territory has lost like half a million people due to them invading Ukraine. Somehow.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Can you cite that? According to the official statistics the population of the whole region is around 1 032 000 people now and has been around 1 029 000 in 2021, the stats are mirrored in wiki, russian only:

    https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8

    The official source is rosstat.gov.ru but my browser says that there is a potential security risk.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I know you've already received a woosh but the explanation is this: the post makes the joke that Kaliningrad is all that Russia is and in that context, Kaliningrad having managed to lose half a million citizens in a war with their neighbour that they don't even border is comical.

    Of course, that is not the reality. Kaliningrad is a small exclave of Russia.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    I understand the meme and honestly thought you were serious in your comment to the point where I was hoping it to be true and went to look if that was the case.

    Also what's wooshing?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Somehow, Immanuel Kant managed to spend his entire life there (and he lived to a ripe old age of 80 years), and still became one of the most influential philosophers in modern history.

    However, it was still part of Germany back then.

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  • [–] 37 points 10 months ago (15 children)

    I grew up next to that border. Fortunately on the civilized side.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    Which side?

    Genuine question, no sass, from an opposite end of the earth.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    they're on a single user instance hosted in finland. i'm gonna go ahead and say, given russia and finland's history, that they aren't a fan in the slightest of russia

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (8 children)

    That's not the civilized side.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    No shit sherlock, but Russians would say otherwise so I asked?

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    My government isn't good and I am stupid, I wouldn't say otherwise when asked.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago

    You mean the Czech region Královec, right?
    https://visitkralovec.cz/
    /j

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    Make Königsberg German again 😢

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    i had a frustrating conversation recently about the ethnic cleansing of Königsburg to create kaliningrad. the person i was talking to kept saying that all the Germans had to be removed because they were nazis. the problem there is that this simply isn't true. the red army and the Free Deutschland movement cooperated on the liberation of the city from nazi control. after the collapse of nazi germany, the red army largely turned on their former Free Deutschland allies, only keeping the most staunchly authcomm officers around and relocating them to what would become East Germany.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    This is lowkey about Israel right?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    And You can see Alaska from there

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