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Furia en Rusia luego que Polonia cambia el nombre de Kaliningrado

By Jordi Bou

May 11, 2023 - El Kremlin ha dicho que la decisión de Polonia de cambiar el nombre
del exclave ruso de Kaliningrado, en la costa del Báltico, es un “acto hostil”.

Kaliningrad, which sits in an exclave sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland, was known by the German name of Königsberg until after the second world war, when it was annexed by the Soviet Union and renamed to honour politician Mikhail Kalinin.

Mikhail Kalinin was one of six Soviet Politburo signatories to the order to execute more than 21,000 Polish prisoners of war in the forests of Katyn and elsewhere in 1940.

Warsaw says that Kalinin’s connexion to the Katyn Massacre has negative connotations and that exclave should be called Królewiec – the Polish translation of Königsberg.

Kaliningrad is strategically important to Moscow because it houses the Russian Baltic Fleet at the port of Baltiysk and is one of Russia's only ice-free European ports.

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PUBLISHED: 11/05/2023; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Newscom
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