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Article: New life for a ghost town. (Kaliningrad, Russia)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- January 13, 1992
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KALININGRAD - Every morning at 5 a.m., in the city then known as Konigsberg, the philosopher Immanuel Kant would rise and begin his studies, a routine so precise that townspeople could set their watches by him. Two hundred years later, all watches seem to have stopped in a place that was the easternmost of the great preWorld War 11 German centers of commerce.
A peculiar hope still fills the Prussian soul when the subject is Konigsberg, which Germans ruled for 700 years. The Soviets took it in 1945 during the campaign for Berlin, renaming the lower Baltic seaport for an early Soviet leader. For 40 years, Kaliningrad was a militarized zone, isolated from foreigners ...