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[...] the decrepit housing blocks and disintegrating cobbled streets notwithstanding, this is no longer a decaying outpost of the Soviet Union, but a gritty, energetic commercial city, with much new building and plenty evidence of economic activity. The castle begun by the Teutonic Knights, which once dominated the city, was gutted by RAF bombing in 19 44 and razed on the orders of Leonid Brezhnev in 1970, as a symbol of German imperialism.
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Strange Meeting
"You're from London and you're going to Kaliningrad?" a young man in Lithuania asked incredulously. "That's like me going to Mars."
The Kaliningrad region is one of Europe's strangest anomalies, a pocket of Russian territory separated, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, from the rest of the Russian Federation ...See the full content of this document
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