And You can see Alaska from there
This is lowkey about Israel right?
You mean the Czech region Královec, right?
https://visitkralovec.cz/
/jI grew up next to that border. Fortunately on the civilized side.
Which side?
Genuine question, no sass, from an opposite end of the earth.
Probably Poland or Lithuania.
I dunno he could be Russian
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
Fair call I didn’t look at that 👍
Might be a fan, in the same way Simo Häyä was. He certainly seemed to enjoy sending the invaders where they belonged.
That’s not the civilized side.
No shit sherlock, but Russians would say otherwise so I asked?
My government isn’t good and I am stupid, I wouldn’t say otherwise when asked.
And therefore this is obviously true for everyone?
Sorry to hear it mate!
I’ve heard that Kaliningrad is mostly anti-Putin, tho? Could be BS of course.
I imagine all of Russia is mostly anti-Putin. There’s just no way for us to actually know.
Thinking of a Paradox game run where this will become (the only) Russia
I learned about this bit of territory like last year
This little territory has lost like half a million people due to them invading Ukraine. Somehow.
And according to the Kremlin, it was a 3 day operation. Very efficient.
That’s where you put the army men before you do the war?
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/Население_Калининградской_области
The official source is rosstat.gov.ru but my browser says that there is a potential security risk.
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.
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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Wouldn’t that be something. With a population of 1mil, losing half of it would be quite devastating. The “woosh” is a relic of a meme. The woosh is the sound the joke makes when it flies over your head and misses you.
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Woosh
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.
Somehow
Autism is how he did it. Seriously, look up his daily routines if you’re intrigued
Also, I understand he was a real pissant who was very rarely stable.
Free Prussia 🍉
Make Königsberg German again 😢
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.
Russia if it was Latveria
