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With the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, the territory was annexed to the Russian SFSR by the Soviet Union. Following the post-war migration and flight and expulsion of Germans, the territory was populated with Soviet citizens, mostly Russians.
He served as head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and later of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946. From 1926, he was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
May 17, 2023 · Kalinin, an Old Bolshevik revolutionary, served as head of state of the Russian SFSR and later head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946. For his involvement in the decision to execute (i.e. the Katyn massacre) more than 20,000 Polish prisoners of war at Katyn, Kalinin has not been remembered too fondly by history.
Kaliningrad Oblast was an exclave of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 it became separated from the rest of Russia by independent countries.
Feb 2, 2018 · Technically, Kaliningrad was not placed under Russian SFSR, Königsberg was: the historic capital of the Teutonic Knights, part of Prussia for 700 years and later of the German Empire was given to the Soviet Union in 1946 as part of World War II reparations.
Feb 6, 2018 · Instead, the region was added as an exclave to the Russian SFSR and since 1946 it has been known as the Kaliningrad Oblast. According to some historians, Stalin created it as an oblast separate from the LSSR because it further separated the Baltic states from the West.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (born November 7 [November 19, New Style], 1875, Verkhnyaya Troitsa, Tver province, Russia—died June 3, 1946, Moscow) was a communist leader and statesman who was the formal head of the Soviet state from 1919 until 1946.
