Posted on 10/02/2013 9:26:41 AM PDT by kronos77
Still you've taken the burden of explaining a 'pun' which is of clumsy nature (too peripherical topic for people with American cultural background). That's why you've needed two attempts doing this. Speaking about the said Russian-Lithuanian conflict I heard the reason was that Russian customs officers had performed total customs checks on Lithuanian lorries, unlike on others, in response to this an Lithuanian official threatened to severe existing land railway access to Kaliningrad from mainland Russia. Probably the situation has a historical parallel with Danzig's post WWI history, but that's not about Russians demanding extra-privileges on railway access.
It was the West, Western allies, represented by the US and Britain who surrendered to Russia in Yalta and Tehran. Russia certainly didn’t surrender to itself.
If we continue this logic we'll have that the Nazi Germany was the only West, who didn't surrender to the Soviet Union in Tehran and Yalta. Because Germany is no less 'West' than the UK or the USA.
*crickets*
I think you have to explain it more simply and in bold fonts.
:p
The Danzig corridor is a peripheral topic? You’re correct, it is, even though it was the direct reason for the start of WWII (even Wiki knows it and mentions the diplomatic exchange between Germany and Poland of August 1939.)
As for historical parallels, they’re never exact, are they, or we wouldn’t understand the painting by John McNaughton which shows Obama playing a fiddle while in the background Washington burns.
The Kaliningrad district, by the way, is the wealthiest region of Russia, its traffic jams filled with luxury cars, I’ve read, while the citizens driving to shop across the border to Poland where prices are lower.
For American and/or Russian public - yes. It's not a part of the national histories. For German public and especially Polish (for what sin did God punish us?) -it's not peripherial.
The Kaliningrad district, by the way, is the wealthiest region of Russia, its traffic jams filled with luxury cars, I’ve read, while the citizens driving to shop across the border to Poland where prices are lower.
It's not so. The wealthiest region of Russia is Moscow city. People driving abroad for shopping are in any border province (St. Petersberg - Finland, Smolensk - Belarus, Vladivostok or Khabarovsk, - China and even Siberia -Kazakhstan).
There is nothing you don’t know better, is there?!
There're things I don't know, but they're not about the facts you have mentioned.
God Bless Vladimir Putin, Patriarch Kyril, and the Russian people.
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