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    Default Ships come back to life in Kaliningrad

    The unique “Ship Resurrection” historical and cultural centre has received its first visitors. It was opened in Kaliningrad on the 30th of May, the birthday of Czar Peter the Great who founded the Russian Navy.

    It would be difficult to find a better place for the museum of Russian shipbuilding and navigation. In 1697 Czar Peter came to Fort Friedrichsburg in Koenigsberg, currently Kaliningrad, with the Grand Embassy to learn shipbuilding. This was the first European city he visited, where he studied artillery and navigation. Undoubtedly, the memory of the great reformer czar inspired the organizers of the Ship Resurrection centre when they compiled their display, curator Nadezhda Rybalkina says:

    “We decided to turn to the roots of the Russian Navy. Russia is a large maritime state which is washed by three oceans and has a huge number of internal rivers and lakes. Naturally, the first transport people started to use was not wheelcarts but boats. We display all these means of transportation beginning with the oldest craft, that people of this country used, to the end of the sailing period.”

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    Kōnigsberg is German city.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Balticus View Post
    Kōnigsberg is German city.
    Not anymore, fortunately.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Forget Me Not View Post
    Not anymore, fortunately.
    And it has prospered a lot since 1945. That has to be undoubtedly, the 'Slavic' touch, which turns everything into gold and fraternity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crossbow View Post
    And it has prospered a lot since 1945. That has to be undoubtedly, the 'Slavic' touch, which turns everything into gold and fraternity.
    Kaliningrad was never a German city but a Baltic that was later occupied by Germans but today it is Russian by the grace of God.


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    I've been to Kaliningrad and it's a very nice city. There is hardly anything German about it. It's Russian soil and that's the way it's going to stay

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    Quote Originally Posted by Максим View Post
    I've been to Kaliningrad and it's a very nice city. There is hardly anything German about it. It's Russian soil and that's the way it's going to stay
    I have only one complaint and that's giving away the rest of East Prussia to Poland. Should have gone to Russia instead but...



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    Quote Originally Posted by Forget Me Not View Post
    Kaliningrad was never a German city but a Baltic that was later occupied by Germans but today it is Russian by the grace of God.
    You really believe that nonsense? It was founded by the Teutonic Knights as a fortress in 1255. Before that there was no city, only a Baltic Pruzzen fort and village. The grace of God LOL. The grace of Stalin you mean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crossbow View Post
    You really believe that nonsense? It was founded by the Teutonic Knights as a fortress in 1255. Before that there was no city, only a Baltic Pruzzen fort and village. The grace of God LOL. The grace of Stalin you mean.
    Teutonic Knights are long gone and dead and so is Stalin. The Russians are still here today.


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    ^And one day the Russians will be dead too.

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