Social Media Joke About Annexing Russia’s Kaliningrad Goes Viral
A shaggy dog story on social media presenting that Czechs capture the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad has long gone viral, sparking mirth in addition to anger from the ones taking it as real. “Time to break up Kaliningrad in order that our Czech brothers have get entry to to the sea,” a Pole figuring out himself as “Papiez internetu” (pope of the internet) tweeted remaining month. He delivered a map of the small exclave encircled with the aid of using Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic Sea, dividing it right into a Polish and Czech part.
The capital of the enclave turned into based withinside the thirteenth century with the aid of using Teutonic knights and named Konigsberg (King’s Hill) in honour of then-Czech King Premysl Otakar II. The vicinity belonged to Germany till 1945 while it turned into ceded to Russia as repayment after World War II. Inspired with the aid of using the annexation of 4 Ukrainian areas with the aid of using Russia remaining week, the tweet sparked a hurricane of memes and jokes withinside the Czech Republic and Poland alike. “Make Kaliningrad Czech Again!” study an enchantment inviting Czechs to a occurring out of doors the Russian embassy in Prague subsequent Monday. Polish Twitter person Tomasz Komentasz depicted an plane service named “Karel Gott” after a overdue Czech singer as it “leaves the Kaliningrad base for the Baltic Sea waters”. A viral meme portrays Russian President Vladimir Putin, searching comfortable at the phone, saying: “What is the scenario in Kaliningrad”? In the subsequent picture, he seems alarmed, exclaiming: “What do you mean, ahoj?” — “ahoj” being Czech for “hello”. Some have proposed an underground line connecting the second one Czech town of Brno, Warsaw and Kaliningrad. Others are planning “Beer Stream II” connecting Prague and Kaliningrad, in connection with the Nord Stream fueloline pipeline and the Czechs’ preferred drink. Czech flesh presser Tomas Zdechovsky, a European Parliament deputy, gave the funny story a lift while he shared it on Twitter — however the choice did now no longer cross down nicely in Russia. The EurAsia Daily information webweb page slammed him for his “revanchist” post, and it later referred to as the authors of a ridicule petition for the annexation of Kaliningrad “provocateurs”. “Russians do not have a lot feel of humour,” Zdechovsky quipped on Twitter.
The Czech Republic, which presently holds the rotating EU presidency, has furnished Ukraine with hefty humanitarian and navy resource because it become invaded through Russia in February.
