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The post No Legal Right raises the interesting case of Kaliningrad in International Law.

To some people, the exclave might seem an anachronism, like Gibraltar or The Falkland Islands, which have no real modern day validity as remote colonial possessions.

Raymond A. Smith argues the case for restitution rather well - even though he admits it is largely an academic exercise. But maybe others feel strongly about this issue - perhaps descendants of the one and half million Germans, Lithuanians and Poles who were displaced. What do people think? You can vote here.

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Of course, it isn’t a simple yes/no issue, since there are three possible claimants to the territory - all apparently with a stronger legal case than Russia. So if you voted ‘Yes’ in the first poll, you can qualify your answer below.

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Once again, Raymond’s Smith’s article, ‘The Status of Kaliningrad Oblast In International Law‘ provides a good overview of the respective claims, while this page tells you who used to live in East Prussia.

In the unlikely event of a successful court case, the lucky country would win a population of 900,000 Russians, several million tons of Soviet concrete buildings and the world’s oldest collection of Czechoslovakian trams.