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The History of Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad is an exclave on the Baltic Sea, which shares borders with Poland and Lithuania. It was German until the Second World War when the Soviet Union was given it at the Potsdam Conference. The fact that they had this strange region there that wasn't connected to Russia didn't really matter for decades because Lithuania and Belarus were both part of the Soviet Union,. so there weren't any borders really. Only in the last 30 years has Kaliningrad become a significant strategic location for Russia in the standoff between Russia and the West.
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