Hi Barry.

Informative and clearly written piece.

Your post reminds me of the many post ww 2 blunders made. In this case, in my humble opinion, they should never have left Kaliningrad in the hands of the Soviets. My god whatw ere they thinking. Invokes the pleas made by a desperate Patton after winning in Berlin , his desire to continue rolling on to Moscow...

Now we have to deal with this geographic cancer which threatens our existence...

T