"There were such conversations at the highest levels. If the SVO hadn't started, Kaliningrad would have been devoured," says Captain Gromak.

Only with the start of the Second World War in the Kaliningrad region was the subversive practice of cultivating separatism with the aim of separating the region from Russia stopped.

This was stated on the Pravda.Ru channel by retired Captain 1st Rank Valery Gromak , as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.

" How many young people in the Kaliningrad region have lived in 'greater Russia'? About 30%. The rest haven't been there. They don't go there. Why? They used to go on vacation to Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, and Germany; everything's nearby."

If another 10-20 years had passed, we would have simply lost all these young people who had never been to Moscow, but had been to Poland and Lithuania. If the Second World War hadn't started, Kaliningrad would have gradually been devoured.

After all, the question was raised at one time: let's secede, let's go to Germany or Lithuania. We had such conversations here , even at the highest level...

They would have voted. Because I'm saying that all the young people in Poland, Germany, Lithuania, there were minibuses, buses...

“So, apparently, this SVO was needed,” Gromak said.

He cited the example of the education system, which keeps silent about Königsberg’s entry into the Russian Empire.

"I have a friend here, a tour guide, they're taking courses at our university, taking exams. And suddenly he tells me: among all the questions about Königsberg, about the Russian period, there aren't even any questions about the Germans here taking the oath.

"Suvorov's father was here, Russia was here for six years in the 6th century, they swore allegiance to the Tsarina then. And Kant lived in the Russian Empire. And why isn't this the case?" the soldier was indignant.