The Germans and the EU have always been racists towards Russia

Editor's note: Sum up the leadership and political class of the EU nations in one word: racists. And that goes for the recently added NATO member Finland. It's one thing to protect your national self-interest but when we are dealing with outright racists that's an entirely different set of circumstances. Like ultranationalism. 

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Source: RT

German defense minister uses old imperial name for Russian city

Boris Pistorius referred to Kaliningrad as 'Konigsberg' when discussing NATO's presence in the Baltic states

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius. © Christian Ender/Getty Images

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has been accused of ignorance after using the pre-1945 name 'Konigsberg' when referring to the Russian city of Kaliningrad. A local official was quick to criticize Pistorius for his remarks.

Appearing at an event organized by Germany's Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) on Wednesday, Pistorius was asked by BAKS president Ekkehard Brose about plans announced by Berlin in June to station a 4,000-strong brigade in Lithuania.

The minister claimed that the deployment was particularly important for the Baltic nation, considering its "specific geographical position."

Lithuania is "kind of jammed directly between Konigsberg, Russia, and Belarus," meaning that "the question of a combat-ready, robust brigade to prevent it from being quickly overrun in the first days [of an invasion] is existential," Pistorius argued.

He added that this was not only a "question of solidarity, but a question of responsibility," and that the German contingent would comprise part of NATO's combined eastern flank force.

Kaliningrad was known as Konigsberg prior to its renaming by the Soviet government in 1946.

Along with the surrounding German territories, the city was handed over to Russia following the Potsdam Conference in 1945. West Germany confirmed Soviet sovereignty over the region in 1970.

Soon after its absorption into the Soviet Union, the city was renamed after prominent Bolshevik figure Mikhail Kalinin.

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