Russians Go Home
In the last two weeks, 500,000 German newspapers carried ads with the headline, ‘Comrades, Russia Is Waiting For You‘.
On offer to Russian expats in Germany is: an assisted resettlement package to Kaliningrad, including subsidised bills, free train travel, free phone installation, a chance to collect Russian and German pensions and dual citizenship.
By far the biggest incentive is the opportunity to buy an apartment in Kaliningrad for just 19,999 Euro. The apartments, the ad reassures, ‘are designed and built to traditional German technologies’.
Apartments In Kaliningrad. A Snip At Just 19,999 Euro
There are indeed many German buildings left in Kaliningrad from before the war. The water mains and sewers in Kaliningrad are also traditional German technology. In fact, burst water mains are quite common. ‘Traditional’ in Kaliningrad largely means not maintained since the Germans left in 1945. In many city streets, a thin layer of Russian tarmac covers the old Prussian cobblestones - but only just.
Although there is a lot to like about Kaliningrad, few would choose it over Germany for life-style. And certainly not German residents. The ‘Daily Fraggle’ wrote the other day: ‘die Stadt ein haessliches und kaputtes Dreckloch ist’. (The town is an ugly, broken dirthole.) The writer also defied any visitor to spend longer than 24 hours in the town.
As you can imagine, the ads were met with scepticism and disbelief. Fingers pointed at the German Government and a subtle form of ethnic cleansing. But the German Consul General to Kaliningrad, Guido Herz, is denying everything. Quote:
“I would like to point out that the German Government has never had a program to resettle Russian Germans and, naturally, will not have any in the future.”
Should you want to jump on the scheme, however, you will have to stump up 20% of the cost of your new apartment as an entry fee. This led Russian agencies reporting the scheme to headline articles with, ‘German Style Fraud‘.
So. Scam or Schadenfreude? Who knows. It may really be, as the advertisers hint, a scheme related to Putin’s recent initiative for repopulating Russia.
this tram on 1st photo looks like czech tram (ÄŒKD) from 1980’s. we have such trams in zagreb
You are a very good tramspotter!
The tram is a TATRA T3SU
I have no idea if it is modified, since much of the original German tram system in Kaliningrad is narrow guage. The network has existed in the former Konigsberg since 1895.
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