Word: kaliningrad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the October Revolution at least ten towns, one city and three rural regions have been named for Stalin. Molotov has been immortalized in the names of four Russian towns, one region, countless streets, and a square in Soviet-dominated Hungary. The cities of Sverdlovsk, Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), Kuibyshev (formerly Samara) and Kirovabad carry the names of four more Soviet faithfuls across the land...
After three weeks in the Soviet Union, the travelers were put on a Berlin-bound plane at the Moscow airport. They still had no passports except the dubious papers declaring them Soviet citizens. Bad weather grounded the plane at Kaliningrad. There MGB (secret police) officials took them off the plane and forced them to spend the night, while they telephoned Moscow for instructions. Next day another plane brought them to Berlin...
...hardly ventured outside, and been buried there. Generations of German Junkers had called the city their home. Since 1255 Königsberg, more than any other German town, had stood for Prussian traditions. Last week Prussia's new masters made a clean break with tradition, renamed the city Kaliningrad...