Posted on 08/16/2005 2:09:39 AM PDT by Lukasz
Yes, her father was German officer who came to Poland from proper Germany with his family after invasion. So she was expelled but not as a native resident.
"...Hey maybe you want to annex Kaliningrad, I know that RusIvan would be glad!..."
Uaahrgh! Doctor! Doctor! Not again! We are no masochists.
It would be much better for everybody if you Poles would buy it from Putin. Then you could suffer the reality of "Begrüßungsgeld" (welcome money), "Transferleistungen" (Transfer payment) and "Solidaritätszuschlag" (solidary tax). The best thing would be that you could welcome a few thousand homeless (we can not say that the huts in Kaliningrad are homes), unemployed, undereducated guys who need your social welfare. ;-)
Have fun.
"...You don’t know how wrong you are. The only cost for us would be to build another floor in Steinbach’s Russo-German center against expulsions. :)..."
Do not forget that you are a full member of the EU in the meantime. The European court of human rights in Strasbourgh would probably declare the Kaliningrad region as one big museum against expulsions, were nothing can be changed within the next 500 years. Furthermore they could condemn you for paying all the those financial transfers to Putin for buying wodka for his poor expelled compatriots and to Erika Steinbach for her mental disorder. She would need for sure a extra bottle of wodka.
;-))
Seriously - Kaliningrad or Königsberg (I like the German name better, because Kalinin was really a pure a**hole) will be a barrel without a floor for anybody who will engage himself in this region. It will be just not worth the price. Except of Russia (it is their baby - we should accept that) Lithuania would be a reasonable inheritor of Königsberg, since a lot of Lithuanians live there today. But I doubt that this will happen since they do not have enough money to pay Putin out and to pay for the rebuilding. Poland will not get it for political reasons because Putin and his buddies do not like you and your compatriots. We Germans are not interested for many reasons. To me this adventure is simply too expensive for all of us.
Poland is not interested at all. Putin don’t like Lithuanians either and I don’t think that many of them is living in this region. I think that they will stay in Russian hands and maybe in future become independent.
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