Road Signs in Poland are being updated.
Kaliningrad, Russia is disappearing. Królewiec is coming
back.
The City was known as Królewiec in Polish from 1454 to 1455
and then Fief of Poland from 1456–1657.
It then became part of Germany (the Kaiser Empire, the Weimer
Republic and then Nazi Germany) from 1657 to 1945 when it was known as Königsberg
and was in East Prussia.
The Soviets annexed East Prussia after World War 2 in 1945,
expelled all the Ethnic Germans from there and renamed the City and the Oblast
to Kaliningrad (Калининград) named after the Soviet Head of State from
1938-1948, Mikhail Kalinin.
I don’t see the Russians using the name Królewiec (Russian: Короле́вец),
but it is part of Lustration (Decommunization) and an affront to Putin and
Russia for its War Crimes in Ukraine.
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