It can be called "the steel nail inserted into Europe". How did Russia get Kaliningrad?

Kaliningrad was shot down by the Soviet Union with live ammunition during World War II. Soviet and German troops fought fiercely for three days and nights around Kaliningrad (then also called Connersburg). The Soviet Union suffered nearly 70,000 casualties, but only shot down Fort Connors. After Germany surrendered, the eastern territory was divided up, and Kaliningrad officially became the territory of the Soviet Union, which is now inherited by Russia.

0 1. Connersburg was merged into the Kingdom of Germany from the end of 19.

The territory of Germany used to be larger than it is now. Its predecessor, the Kingdom of Germany, once owned a large territory in the east, namely East Prussia. 19 In the 1980s, the German Kingdom annexed Connersburg, which belongs to the Prussian Kingdom. During World War II, Nazi Germany incorporated part of Poland into East Prussia, further expanding the area of East Prussia. Connersburg, the political center of East Prussia, is the heart of East Prussia and an important place for the Soviet Union to fight against Germany.

02. From Connersburg to Kaliningrad, the tragic Battle of Kaliningrad.

Fort Connors is a? Steel fortress? But if the Soviet Union wants to attack Berlin, it must chew the hard bone of Connersburg. At that time, Otto, the garrison commander of Connors Castle? Rush has been isolated and besieged by the Soviet Union for more than four months. But he built three lines of defense and an underground arsenal for Fort Connors. And mobilized most German residents, with a total force of 1.3 million, hundreds of artillery and tanks, and more than 3,000 mortars.

On the whole, the strength of the Soviet Union is higher than that of the German army. Although the number is equal to that of the Germans, the Soviet Union has more than 400 tanks and two or three army aviation units, which can attack Connors Castle from three aspects: land, sea and air. After three days and nights of fierce fighting, the defenders of Connors Castle were forced to surrender. The Germans killed 40,000 people, captured 90,000 people, lost more than 2,000 mortars, and almost all tanks were scrapped. The Soviet Union won the Battle of Kaliningrad at great cost.

03. In the Potsdam Declaration, Connersburg became the territory of the Soviet Union. Sovietization? Rename it to 3.

After World War II, according to the Potsdam Agreement between the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain, the Soviet Union acquired Connersburg and the northern part of East Prussia. In order to consolidate its rule over this territory as soon as possible, the Soviet Union took a series of measures to turn it into? Sterilization? . One of the important steps is to rename these newly acquired cities with Soviet-style names.

However, there are too many cities to think of too many names at the moment, so the Soviet people played the tradition of naming cities after their leaders, and named this territory after the late Comrade Kaliningrad. Kaliningrad and the capital, Connersburg, were naturally changed to Kaliningrad. Before I saw Kaliningrad, I thought it was named after Lenin. Actually, Kalinin is a Soviet? Good grandpa? Vigorously develop Soviet education and compare teachers to? Engineers of the human soul? .

04. The Soviet Union disintegrated, Lithuania became independent and Kaliningrad became an enclave.

Germany has a chance to return to Kaliningrad. After all, this place was occupied by the Soviet Union and became an outpost for the Soviet Union to attack Western Europe. But on the issue of reunification of Germany and Germany, Germany had to give up the city in exchange for the support of the Soviet Union. But who would have thought that with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Lithuania's independence and Kaliningrad's separation from Russia, Kaliningrad became a lonely flying place, standing on the land of Europe and facing the countries of Central and Western Europe every day.