East Prussia immigrants

Britain couldn't handle Scotland in 300 years, why did Russia assimilate East Prussia in 50 years?

The British will cry when listening to this question, and the Germans will be silent when listening.

Who is the Englishman? For most people, the first reaction is the once superpower, the British empire that never falls. However, for the British, well, it's British.

Britain, which we often talk about, should actually be called "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", including not only England, but also Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The biggest headache for the British is Scotland and Northern Ireland. Now many people want to go out independently.

On the other hand, Russians occupy 6.5438+0.7 million square kilometers of land, more than 70 times the area of 240,000 in Britain. There has never been an independent case in China. Even if all localities are provoked by the United States and NATO, there has never been a large-scale independence movement.

Especially after World War II, the Russians got East Prussia, the booming land of Germany, and even built it into Kaliningrad. Now that the rule is very stable, there is no such thing as independence.

What's the difference between Britain and Russia? Is there such a serious problem in assimilating our land?

Scotland is roughly equivalent to the northern part of Game of Thrones, but it is not separated by the Great Wall, which is 1000 meters high. What separates England from Scotland is actually a political system. The Romans invaded the island of England and brought civilization to the British people. However, for Scotland in the far north, Rome was really powerless, so Hadrian Great Wall came into being, and Scotland and England were divided into two halves.

After the Romantics retreated, Scotland established a powerful empire, but the main force of this empire was actually the Vikings. 1034 Duncan I occupied most of Scottish land, and the struggle between Duncan's brother Macbeth and Duncan's son Marcand was the historical prototype of Shakespeare's famous tragedy.

In the following 600 years, England constantly intervened in the battle for the throne of Scotland through marriage, and even once brought Scotland into its own rule. On the other hand, Scotland launched two wars of independence in a state of reduced rights, both of which failed. Scotland was also forced to pay reparations, humiliated the country and regarded England as an enemy.

To make matters worse, Scotland sided with France many times in the Anglo-French War, and the condescending status of the northern barbarians was really unacceptable to the English.

1603, the king of Scotland succeeded to the throne of England, so the two countries formed the main Federation and merged into one country. Decades later, the British civil war broke out, Britain entered the industrial revolution, and later became an empire that never fell.

When the whole of Britain is an empire that never falls, Scotland naturally does not want to be separated. However, when Britain declined, especially when the royal family and cabinet from England acted recklessly, Scottish independence became one of their options.

After all, the Kingdom of Scotland has existed longer than the Kingdom of England.

There are three main reasons why Britain could not conquer and assimilate Scotland:

1, the cultures of the two countries are similar, and they are close to each other, and they can't do it hard.

2. The flow of people between the two countries is small, and the nationalities have never been able to integrate.

It is too difficult for the two countries to conquer across latitudes.

These three points make England never conquer and assimilate Scotland.

These three points are precisely the real reasons why Russia conquered and assimilated East Prussia.

Say it one by one.

Germany established three empires, namely Holy Roman Empire, German Empire and Nazi Germany. Some people say that they are the first empire, the second empire and the third empire. As Marx said, the First Empire was neither sacred nor Roman, let alone an empire. It was a loose alliance of German separatist regimes and was used by Roman papal states. In the easternmost part of Germany, the Pope enfeoffed Teutonic knights and gave them land, thus forming the kingdom of Prussia. Prussia advocates force and established the Second Empire after hundreds of years of war. Therefore, when the Second Reich of Germany was defeated in World War I, all members of the Allies agreed that the Prussian spirit must be uprooted to prevent the war from breaking out again.

Unfortunately, the allied forces dominated by Britain and France are too weak to support Poland to carve up the Danzig Corridor. In the end, Hitler from Austria used the Danzig Corridor and East Prussia as an excuse to attack Poland and launch World War II.

After the victory of World War II, East Prussia was naturally divided between Poland, Lithuania and Russia. 1945, many people died in East Prussia. Some Germans wanted to go back to their hometown in East Prussia, but they were all expelled by the Soviets, and some were even sent to the Siberian Gulag for hard labor. And East Prussia has gradually become an overseas enclave of the Soviet Union.

1946, the Soviet Union formally annexed East Prussia. In the second year, all Germans were expelled, and Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians moved here.

Russia's conquest and assimilation of East Prussia was actually a large-scale national exchange of blood. 1875 When the Second German Empire was founded, 73.48% of East Prussia was German, 18.39% was Polish, and 8. 1 1% was Lithuanian. Religiously, most of them are Christians, a few are Catholics and Jews, and there is almost no Russian Orthodox Church.

The Russians wiped out the Nazis and annexed Prussia, which was the unanimous decision of the Allies. Both the Potsdam Proclamation and the Yalta Conference put forward principled opinions on the integration of East Prussia into Poland and the Soviet Union and the abolition of the Prussian organizational system in postwar Germany. This is because Prussia is the birthplace of German militarism, the base camp of German officers and Yong Ke nobles, and the source of German autocratic thought and aggressive thought, which must be eliminated.

Under the guidance of this thought, Russia has no psychological burden and no pity for annexing East Prussia.

1944 10, Soviet troops carried out inhuman massacres in Nai Moersdorf and Kambinnen in East Prussia. The news of the Soviet massacre soon reached Konigsberg, and local residents fled.

In June 5438+the following year 10, the Soviet army surrounded Konigsberg, and the Germans in Konigsberg were terrified of the atrocities of the Soviet army, so a large number of local residents fled Konigsberg, while the defenders broke through.

After the Soviet Union captured Konigsberg, Konigsberg became a state of the Soviet Union. In the face of the remaining Germanic nation and civilization, the Soviet Union expelled some of these "second-class citizens" back to their hometown in Germany, and even a considerable number of Germans were exiled to Central Asia and Siberia by the Soviet government.

Culturally, all German-style buildings were demolished and all German-style place names were changed. On the ruins of war and holocaust, Kaliningrad, which belongs to Russians, was established.

Such drastic measures, coupled with international consensus, naturally made East Prussia an inseparable part of Russia.

It is impossible for Scotland to annex England, which is almost the same as the long-term existence of ancient Mongolian Plateau in China and even Siberia. Even, China's ancient dynasty had weak dominance over the Northeast.

On the contrary, it was in the western regions isolated from the desert Gobi, but it was already within the sphere of influence of the Central Plains Dynasty in China. This is because the western regions and northern China are at the same latitude, while the Mongolian Plateau, Northeast Plain and Siberia have higher latitudes and are more difficult to conquer.

Similarly, it is difficult for the southern regime of our country to achieve great reunification.

This is because cross-latitude conquest needs to overcome many obstacles such as temperature and climate. In modern times, in the case of incomplete warm-keeping equipment and heating equipment, direct cross-latitude conquest is actually equivalent to suicide. Napoleon and Hitler have proved this in Russia.

On the other hand, Russia's conquest of East Prussia is actually equivalent to our exploration of the western regions in Han and Tang Dynasties. Backed by a strong army, the local climate is similar to that of the mainland, which naturally becomes the main destination of immigrants.

The legality of Russia's conquest of East Prussia has long been stipulated. Unless there is a world war, no one can take Kaliningrad away from Russia.