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I know a guy whose mother came from East Prussia, around the Masurian Lakes region, and once, in the late '80s, I told him that if we ever lived to see the end of the Soviet Union, I hoped that at least the Russian half of East Prussia would be returned to Germany. Of course, his mother's ancestral lands were in Polish territory, but still. Of course, I never dreamed then that the end of the SU was but a scant few years away.
So the challenge is to create an even more dramatic implosion of the SU in December 1991, so that the newly emerging Russia is in no condition to hang on to the Kaliningrad Oblast, and Germany can send in eager settlers, mainly children and grandchildren of former EP residents, to try to re-colonise the area in question. Extra points if they can ease the Russian residents out without the rest of the world screaming about ethnic cleansing.
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