Post #2876796
2023-02-02 05:43 UTC
How did I have no idea until now that there was a (fairly large!) enclave of Russia on the Baltic Sea _completely surrounded_ by EU nations (Poland and Lithuania)!?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast
Replies (3)
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@buzz@andersen.social 2023-02-02 06:46
@th_in_gs@sfba.social Whoa, I had no idea either! I’ve been listening to a long podcast about Russian history that really emphasized the old empire’s historical quest for viable, ice-free seaports, so makes sense they’d try to hold that. That whole Baltic region has such a fascinatingly complicated history of shifting ownership and influence.
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@justkwin@toot.community 2023-02-02 08:01
@th_in_gs@sfba.social Ah, yes, ethnic cleansing ftw
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@ospalh@chaos.social 2024-03-29 17:58
@th_in_gs@sfba.social You mean the Czech Královec region. It’s about as Czech as Ukraine is Russian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%A1lovec_Region #Kralovec