Kaliningrad Votes To Join Czechia, According To People Joking And Trolling Russia On Twitter

October 5th, 2022 - 12:57 PM EDT by Aidan Walker

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A fake news image of Biden approving the Czech annexation, a map of Kaliningrad labelled in Czech with the Czech flag.

Posters from the Czech Republic jokingly announced the annexation of the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad this week, mocking the undemocratic referendums recently carried out by Russian occupiers in eastern Ukraine.


Czechia, which does not border Kaliningrad, arguably has a historic claim to the territory through King Ottokar II of Bohemia, whom it was named after in 1255. By claiming the enclave in a fake referendum, the Czech posters are equating Russia's annexation of Luhansk, Donetsk and other regions with their obviously satirical annexation of Kaliningrad.

Some cited Elon Musk, who recently tweeted a controversial poll about referendums in the occupied parts of Ukraine, as an inspiration for the Kaliningrad annexation.


Some posters, including some from NAFO, began deliberating about the complications that would ensue from the annexation, and the beer pipeline that would need to be constructed to supply the citizens of Královec (the new name of Kaliningrad) with the national drink.

Another poster made a 13-tweet thread about the problems of governing exclaves, and what the Czech Republic would need to consider with the new province.


Others began to wonder how Czechia, a landlocked country, would build and deploy a navy. The United States embassy helpfully offered an aircraft carrier.


A number of posters photoshopped fake tweets showing various world leaders like Volodymyr Zelensky and the Pope endorsing the annexation which did not happen.


A meme account claiming to represent the new province gained a massive amount of followers in a very short amount of time.


Kaliningrad is a part of Russia because it was captured from Germany in World War II. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia held on to Kaliningrad in part because it is a warm water port that never freezes over. It is unknown if anything will happen to Kaliningrad under the Czech administration.



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