[franksolich]

Please put me on your Eastern European ping list, sir.

As for Memel, wouldn't it simply be easier for Russia to cede this sliver of land to Poland or Lithuania; I'm sure most of the inhabitants (formerly German, but removed after 1945) are Polish or Lithuanian anyway.

[Lukasz]

Not exactly, this is quote from Kaliningrad oblast official site

http://www.gov.kaliningrad.ru/en_region.php3

People of more than 97 nationalities live in the Kaliningrad region. Most numerous are Russians - 78%, Belorussians - 7.7%, Ukrainians - 7.4%, Lithuanians - 1.9%, Armenians -0.8%. Germans -0.6%, Poles - 0.5%. The population of Kaliningrad is 424.3 thousand, it is 43.2 thousand in Sovietsk, 42.9 thousand in Chernyakhovsk, 31.1 thousand in Baltijsk, and 27.8 thousand in Gusev.

[1rudeboy]

Klaipeda (Memel) is already part of Lithuania.

[eluminate]

actually most of the residents are Russian due to Hitler deporting everyone out of east prussia even germans when they were retreating and Stalin settling it.