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Heresson is offline Heresson
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A propos French discussions and its unique politics in Europe. As You know EU forces us to close our eastern borders, and showed no mercy when we asked them to make it easier for our Ukrainian and Lithuanian allies
to cross the border even now. The question is city of Kaliningrad, earlier Koenigsberg alias Królewiec.
It's Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania,
with access to Baltic sea, a great military base. When Poland and Lithuania will enter EU, it will be enclaved in it. Russia knew about it since a long time, but only now it styrted discussing it. The enclave lives mostly of little trade with Poland, and is more and more dependant from German and Polish economy. There is a kind of separatism there and Russia afraids that EU would try to vassalise it.
Anyway it demands "corridors" through Lithuania and/or Poland, but agrees not on any visas, even though EU promised it cheap, or even free of charge and accessible visas, a thing that they had no chance to offer Lithuania
or Ukraine earlier. And now mr Chirac had a trip to Russia
and, to get a worthy contract, stated that visas for Kaliningrad citizens would offend their honour and stuff.
The wuestion is; if a Kaliningradian would like to travel to Russia through lets say USA, will it offend his honour too?
Or if i'd like to go to another Polish city crossing entire planet, should I be offended that the entire planet doesn't belong to my state?

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I agree.

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either give Kaliningrad to Lithuania or give Lithuania to Russia.

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Even if Lithuania was Russian, it would be enclave too...
But Byelorussia is is half-union with Russia...
The only thing that can be done is to give Królewiec back to Poland, of course.

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Even if Lithuania was Russian, it would be enclave too...
But Byelorussia is is half-union with Russia...
The only thing that can be done is to give Królewiec back to Poland, of course.


I was just kidding. I doubt that Russia is going to give anything back to anyone. Have they gave the Kuril Islands to Japan yet?

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Kaliningrad?
Who was calling for me?
Oh it's Heresson. Who else could start it?
Keep whinning boy, it will change nothing


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The wuestion is; if a Kaliningradian would like to travel to Russia through lets say USA, will it offend his honour too?

No. Kaliningrad don't have a common border with USA. And only an idiot will chose the way through USA to reach Russia.

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Or if i'd like to go to another Polish city crossing entire planet, should I be offended that the entire planet doesn't belong to my state?


You are twisting the facts Heresson. You being in any Polish city could easily reach any other Polish city freely, without any visas. It is your right- the right to movement freely in borders of your country.
After Baltic states will be included in EU, the citizens of Kaliningrad will lose this right-and this is what offend them, that they will lose their right to move freely in every city of ITS OWN COUNTRY.
Why should they lost this right?
It is EU desire to include more members, but why other countries should suffer because of this decision?

P.S. Keep dreaming. It will remain Russian territory forever.

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I find your reasoning extremely suspect, Heresson. There are no people whose livelihood depends on travelling to Russia via the US. The existing state of being with an excemption has resulted in a lot of people using it as something entirely natural. Getting rid of it would be like banning smoking; probably intellectually correct but it just wouldn't work.

Plus there are existing exceptions... the nordic passport union is still in effect, by the inclusion of non-EU country Norway in Schengen. Something similar could (should?) be included for Kaliningrad.

Or Schengen, which is damn ****ing nasty to begin with, could be scrapped altogether.

And it's an exclave, not an enclave, dammit!

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So what's your beef with Schengen, Snappy? Don't like open borders in Europe, do you?

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There are advantages, I admit. Especially for foreign tourists travelling to multiple european countries. (Let's face it, inter-border passport showing was never much of a hassle in the first place...)

What I've got against it is the clear link to a more restrictive policy on visas and immigration from third-world countries. The Transporter Responsibility clause may well be the most evil law passed in the past few years...

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What I've got against it is the clear link to a more restrictive policy on visas and immigration from third-world countries.

But this follows naturally from the basic tenets of the welfare state, Snap. Which I seem to recall you're a big fan of? Europe can't uphold it's expensive social programs for millions of potential welfare cases, so the natural response is to keep them out - and if you don't like that, I suggest you start looking at a country that has a way more successful integrational record than any European one - the USA.

Blaming this on Schengen is a severe case of shooting the messenger, you know.

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The Transporter Responsibility clause may well be the most evil law passed in the past few years...


Oh please. In Sweden we have the nuclear power thought-contol law, which is downright medieval, and in Britain you have Jack Straw's RIP act, which is downright fascist (or commie, if that makes you feel better). The TR law has nothing on any of these in terms of sheer evil.

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The one and only time I got in a fight whilst in China was when I was hanging around my housemate's Russian pal Grigori and I started singing the Soviet National Anthem. Grigori was a Russian who wholeheartedly believed that Kaliningrad was doing no particular good, and should be sold off at the highest price to Poland or Lithuania.

Myself, I still adhere to the watchword "no territory is ever completely useless". Civ3 and its amazing disappearing/reappearing resources has only strengthened my feelings.

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Please no offence, but I think that Grisha is jackass.
And more probably he is not Russian.

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Damn! Accidentally I lost all I wrote here. Now I have to write it all again...

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Sh*t happens
No doubt it was long and fascinating speech.

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Here it goes again;
Snapscase: mprimo, Russia wo0n't agree on any special rights for Kaliningradians only. Secundo; Kaliningradians have a little to do with rest of Russia. Most of them never visited any other region of it.
Serb;
In fact I can't movbe freely to Polish cities, to Berlin, to Opawa, to Kiezmark, to Lwów, to Grodno, to Wilno and to Królewiec for example... , but except for those I can,
but Poland doesn't have exclaved territories or colonies.
Russians have full right to move freely in between their borders. But Poland and Lithuania, if You ahve forgotten,
are not iin your borders. You are free to use sea or air way.
And tell me, is Turkey demanding a corridor through Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgria to Thrace?
Or Denmark through Sweden, Finland, Russia, Byelorus and Poland to Jutland? Kaliningrad is a bit more distant. Your pain! You should have thought about that when You were taking it after ww2.

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"to get a worthy contract, stated that visas for Kaliningrad citizens would offend their honour and stuff"

I suggest that they get used to it. Sovereign countries have a right to require visas for entry. If Lithuania and Poland are requiring them, then Russia can do precious little about it.

Full stop.

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Right. Especially that it weren't us that wanted it, but EU, including mister Chirac. I just wonder if mr Putin is so naive that He believes that French liar.

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It's an exclave, not an enclave. m If you want to bew fair, give it back to Germany. It's niether Polish nor Lithuanian. Otherwise, why should Russia give it up? Because it gives them an advantage? Maybe The US should give up its islands, too? How dare some countries be in better positions than others!

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It's not German, it's not Polish and not Lithuanian. It'll stay Russian, unfortunatelly. You seem to miss the meaning of this thread. I don't claim that Kaliningrad should be returned to Poland. Though legally, according to Polish-crandenburgian/Prussian treaty of 1657, it should be returned to Poland after the end of Hohenzollern dinasty.
And they aren't ruling anything, are they?
Anyway, the topic of this thread is completely different.

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In fact I can't movbe freely to Polish cities, to Berlin, to Opawa, to Kiezmark, to Lwów, to Grodno, to Wilno and to Królewiec for example..., but except for those I can,
but Poland doesn't have exclaved territories or colonies.

Then you know nothing about problems of that kind.

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Russians have full right to move freely in between their borders. But Poland and Lithuania, if You ahve forgotten, are not iin your borders.

No. It is you who perhaps forget about one simple thing. We have an agreement with those countries, while they weren’t a part of EU. An agreement by which Kaliningrad’s citizens could move to “main” Russia” without any visas. As long as they decided to join EU they should think that this decision would heart RIGHTS of other people in foreign countries. Both of the sides should find a compromise solution, because no one in Russia don’t prevent include of Baltic states in EU (because they are sovereign countries, but WE HAVE A TREATY) and no one in EU don’t deny that Russian citizens of Kaliningrad has right to move within their country freely.
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You are free to use sea or air way.

Blah, you portray it like ONLY the problem of private citizens. The situation is far away from picture you are trying to portray. The administrative center of Russian Federation SHOULD have full access to one of its territories; to have capability to manage it’s properly. All kind of access. Otherwise it will lead to isolation of this territory, all kinds of isolation: political, economical, cultural etc. THIS IS THE PROBLEM.
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And tell me, is Turkey demanding a corridor through Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgria to Thrace?
Or Denmark through Sweden, Finland, Russia, Byelorus and Poland to Jutland? Kaliningrad is a bit more distant. Your pain!

I have no idea what the f*ck are you talking about.
Does citizen of Alaska should have visa to go through Canada to “main” USA?
Even after WW1 the victorious countries let an access for defeated Germany to its exclave.

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You should have thought about that when You were taking it after ww2.

Shut the f*ck up. Now you really drove my mad Heresson. Because one of the men who took Kenigsberg – one of the toughest nazi fortresses, was contused there, and now this man is paralyzed since more then a month, and more probably he will never walk again. This man is my grandfather. SO SHUT THE **** UP. Don’t you realize that sometimes your speeches are not funny? That your constant sayings like- “you should abandon this territory, you should abandon that territory, and you should give it to Poland.”. What have you done to control this territory? The history is very fair judge. No matter what you would say, everything will remain how this judge decided. Case is closet.

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It was Lithuanian first then it went to Poland which in our mistatke we invited the germans there. And it was in poland till about the late 1600s. Then it became german in 1800s it became prussia, in 1920 it was split,in 1945 it was split again and became russian with a promise to give it back to lithuanaia in years.It belonges to Lithuana.

No one in the region wants the germans to have kallingrad we rather have the russians then the germans anyday.

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I suggest that they get used to it. Sovereign countries have a right to require visas for entry. If Lithuania and Poland are requiring them, then Russia can do precious little about it.


Every citizen of sovereign country has also right to move freely within borders of it’s own country. We have an agreement with countries which gone be included in EU. The EU laws demands that those countries should abandon agreements with us. Why citizens our country should suffer because of EU rules?
Why we can't find a compromise solution, a solution which don't heart rights of both sides?

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The vast majority of the population in Kaliningrad is Russian, right? I don't think they would want to be handed over to another country... And I doubt that Lithuania wants to have an even bigger Russian minority within its borders.

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Gangerwolf, read at least the first post of this thread, then post. Bye.

It's either visas or no visas. The compromise were visas free of charge, and Moscow doesn't like it.
Your speech was interesting, Serb, I haven't looked on it from that side, but it hurts the rights of all countrie except for EU, then. Why aren't they protesting?
I'm no specialist on international law, but I guess that if
f.e Spain would liek to cut down on immigration by securing
its borders, Marocco can't treat it as violation of agreements,
can it... Every country have full right to make such border laws as it wishes. It's no two-side agreement, that's a law
of each state, so it's not a matter of some other country's
rights.

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"We have an agreement with countries which gone be included in EU. The EU laws demands that those countries should abandon agreements with us. Why citizens our country should suffer because of EU rules?"

Agreements can be amended or abandoned, with adequate notice given.

"Why we can't find a compromise solution, a solution which don't heart rights of both sides?"

There are no "rights" in this instance, only an agreement. It is true that a compromise solution is probably best, but when push comes to shove, Lithuania and Poland can do what they think best.

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We cant do what we think is the best, because EU won't let us. Nevertheless, as the case is about our borders, mr Putin should negotiate with us not with EU directly.

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"We cant do what we think is the best, because EU won't let us."

You think it is best to join the EU, and the EU has its requirements.

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We'll teach the EU respect when it lets us in... We'll let them see the fameous Polish Anarchy,.

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We'll teach the EU respect when it lets us in... We'll let them see the fameous Polish Anarchy


nah, just switch the whole economy to agriculture and live off subsidies. given the size of the population, that should teach them

 
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