Recessionary thoughts about joining Kaliningrad to the Czech Republic flooded social networks

Prague – Satirical considerations supporting the annexation of the Russian Kaliningrad region to the Czech Republic have caused an avalanche of jokes, recessive comments, imaginary actions and so-called internet memes on social networks in recent days. The idea of ​​annexing a strategic Russian exclave to the Czech Republic has been living its own life in the Czech Republic and neighboring Poland for several days – some state and public institutions, cities and politicians react to it with exaggeration. He created his own twitter account, a website promoting a visit to the area and a petition to announce a referendum on the annexation of Kaliningrad – Královka in Czech – to the Czech Republic. On Monday, a happening is planned in front of the Russian embassy in Prague.

The current recessionary action is a response to Russia’s recent move to hastily hold internationally unrecognized votes in those parts of Ukraine it controls or occupies. After a large portion of the people, according to Russian authorities, voted to join Russia, Moscow annexed them.

The idea that the Czechia should lay claim to the Kaliningrad region comes from history. The capital of the region, today’s Kaliningrad, Královec in Czech and Königsberg in German, was founded in the 13th century by crusaders in honor of the Czech king Přemysl Otakar II. The connection to the Czech Republic is thus completely legitimate, supporters of this idea claim with exaggeration. Kaliningrad was part of Prussia for a century, later Germany, after the Second World War the area fell to the Soviet Union.

According to the media, the current satirical campaign for the annexation of the Kaliningrad region to the Czech Republic was apparently launched at the end of September by one of the Polish parody Twitter accounts, whose post was subsequently shared by MEP Tomáš Zdechovský. This caused a flood of reactions.

Czechs are rejoicing on social networks that they will finally have access to the sea, while Poles are “looking forward” to the Czech military presence at the Baltic Sea or further access to Czech beer or fried cheese. There were calls called “Make Kaliningrad Czech Again!”, “Kaliningrad is Czechia” or “The King is ours!”. People are also interested in how Russia and the West perceive the discussion on social networks and whether they will understand that it is satire.

On Monday, October 10, an event supporting, according to the organizers, the annexation of Russian territory to the Czech Republic is taking place in front of the Russian embassy in Prague. During the event, they want to hand over to the Russian ambassador a request for an immediate referendum on this issue. “At the same time, we are willing to immediately provide the results of this vote. This demand will be manifested in front of the embassy of the Russian Federation, whose senior government officials have already clearly supported the right to self-determination of peoples in Ukraine. We simply want to learn from Moscow,” added ironically the organizers of the happening.

Kaliningrad Oblast is the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, separated from the rest of the country. The strategic exclave lies on the coast of the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Poland.

Considerations about joining Kaliningrad to the Czech Republic have awakened the imagination of Polish pranksters

Recessionary considerations and petitions to announce a vote on the annexation of the Russian Kaliningrad region to the Czech Republic have awakened the imagination of Polish pranksters. Twitter was flooded with various comments and memes developing this situation.

In one meme posted by a Polish Twitter user, Russian President Vladimir https://twitter.com/KleszczRex/status/1576802836519989248/photo/1 with the phone to his ear, he first wants to know “What is the situation in Kaliningrad?”, after which with a tense expression he says in disbelief “How is the ‘hello’?”.

The Poles are also “looking forward” to the Czech military presence near the Baltic Sea. “Czech submarine Helena Vondráčková is returning to the base in Kaliningrad,” announces one https://twitter.com/gen_brygady/status/1577377977507135514/photo/1 On the contrary, it sails from the port https://twitter.com/tomaszkomentasz/status/1577300066284494849 Karel Gott. https://twitter.com/tomaszkomentasz/status/1577339642101334026/photo/1 again captured how “the Czech Navy test-fired a Maková panenka ballistic missile from the nuclear submarine Loupežník Rumcajs near Kaliningrad occupied by the Czech Republic”. Another photo”https://twitter.com/Jack84863715/status/1577390745333469194” the Czech submarine Jožin from the swamps, blocking access to the Czech port in Královéc (formerly Kaliningrad).

“I don’t know if everyone is aware that Czech Kaliningrad opens up the issue of the corridor. It means mountain huts in the Svatokrizké Mountains (in central Poland – ČTK note), Prime Minister brewed in Warsaw breweries, and fundamental progress in reproductive rights on a long strip of territory of the Polish Republic,” someone lists the advantages of a possible land connection between Královce and the rest of the Czech territory.

In a comment on the map of the fictitious Králové region, someone wrote that “a lot of people would like to go to the sea with the Czechs. And the Czech ‘hello’ takes on a completely new meaning in this perspective”.

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