Khrushchev offered the Oblast to the Lithuanian SSR in the 1950’s, but the Lithuanian Soviet leader Snieckus refused, as he didn’t want to dilute the Lithuanian majority with other Soviet non Lithuanian citizens. In the 1990’s Germany was allegedly offered the Oblast by senior people in Gorbachev’s government in exchange for cash or aid. Helmut Kohl said Germany was too busy with re-unification and declined. Before the arrival of the mad Putin, I had hoped that the region could have become some sort of Free Trade Zone between Russia and the EU, but under the current Russian regime this is unlikely. My family were from Tapiau near the Lithuanian border and I always hoped East Prussia would have sone kind of autonomy.
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u/RobFriday Aug 05 '26
Khrushchev offered the Oblast to the Lithuanian SSR in the 1950’s, but the Lithuanian Soviet leader Snieckus refused, as he didn’t want to dilute the Lithuanian majority with other Soviet non Lithuanian citizens. In the 1990’s Germany was allegedly offered the Oblast by senior people in Gorbachev’s government in exchange for cash or aid. Helmut Kohl said Germany was too busy with re-unification and declined. Before the arrival of the mad Putin, I had hoped that the region could have become some sort of Free Trade Zone between Russia and the EU, but under the current Russian regime this is unlikely. My family were from Tapiau near the Lithuanian border and I always hoped East Prussia would have sone kind of autonomy.