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Article: A Baltic province's story, in one man's life: German Konigsberg, later Russian Kaliningrad, would be isolated again in the EU's expansion east by 2004.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 25, 2002
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Byline: Fred Weir Special to The Christian Science Monitor
KALININGRAD, RUSSIA -- Pieter Eugen was born and raised in one country, lived most of his adult life in a second, and is eking out a pensioner's existence in a third. Yet he has lived his entire life - 74 years - in the same town.
Mr. Eugen's life is not a riddle, but one man's piece of a 20th-century tragedy. He is one of the original German inhabitants of the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, an area where changes on the map have left people stranded.
Now history is eerily repeating itself. When the European Union makes its planned expansion east by 2004, Kaliningrad will be ...