Why are why only looking at this from the ethnic perspective? Couldn't a worse or more violent fall of the USSR result in Kaliningrad 'escaping' as an indepedent state, or even a rump USSR government?
Out of curiosity, was this proposed IOTL?Khrushchev gives Kaliningrad to Lithuania SSR in the 1950s.
Kaliningrad goes the way of Transnistria in the 1990s.
Done.
In the most soul crushing way possible.
Why are why only looking at this from the ethnic perspective? Couldn't a worse or more violent fall of the USSR result in Kaliningrad 'escaping' as an indepedent state, or even a rump USSR government?