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Since the October Revolution at least ten towns, one city and three rural regions have been named for Stalin. Molotov has been immortalized in the names of four Russian towns, one region, countless streets, and a square in Soviet-dominated Hungary. The cities of Sverdlovsk, Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), Kuibyshev (formerly Samara) and Kirovabad carry the names of four more Soviet faithfuls across the land...
During the second year of World War I, a fleet of British warships anchored off the mouth of the Rufiji River in German East Africa and proceeded to bombard an unseen target. When the shelling was over, the 3,400-ton cruiser Königsberg, camouflaged and in hiding 17 miles upstream, was an unrecognizable mass of twisted steel. She was to Germany in World War I what the Bismarck was in World War II: a ghostly, arrogant lone raider that had sunk British warships, transports and merchant vessels and gotten cleanly away after each kill. On the bridge...
...everyone is stealing things from Germany-houses, rugs, factories, cities like Königsberg. Perhaps by the time I finish my law course we will have a Government and can try to realize some of the principles for which you say you fought. In the meantime, I can only emulate what...
Along with these proposed changes in the German economy went specific proposals for territorial changes. Königsberg and adjacent areas must go to Russia, as already agreed. Silesia and other eastern German regions, however, would not necessarily go to the Soviet-dominated government of the Poles, although now administered by Poland. The Saar would go to France. The Ruhr and the Rhineland, however, would remain German...
Prussia's last nine kings were crowned there. Philosopher Immanuel Kant had been born there, hardly ventured outside, and been buried there. Generations of German Junkers had called the city their home. Since 1255 Königsberg, more than any other German town, had stood for Prussian traditions. Last week Prussia's new masters made a clean break with tradition, renamed the city Kaliningrad...