nativewolf
Active Member
That little bit sticking out there is the old East Prussia, actually that's Prussia. This is where you nordic blond haired blue eyed aryan came from. After WWII Russia death marched all the Germans from Poland and East Prussia to the area that would become East Germany and in the settlement agreement ending the war they took ownership of some of east prussia (poland got the rest in exchange for eastern poland going to USSR). It's cut off, an isolated ignored backwater. The people that settled there had no connections to the area, they knew nothing about farming there, etc. Typical soviet hubris ( I actually thought it was beyond well deserved but that's another story and you need to read the history of the baltics and Poland to really understand). Incidentally they did the same thing in Western Poland and the Czech areas with German speakers.Interesting viewing. Russia could easily cut off the Baltic countries from the rest of NATO. Makes a lot of sense if you look where Kalingrad is. Many people may not realize that Russia is not really a contiguous country (similar to the US with Alaska and Hawaii.)
There is a reason NATO stationed tripwire troops in the baltics several years ago.