Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Go Königsberg!

On 25-th of December, we made an official offer to Kaliningrad Parliament for returning the city's historic name Königsberg, with 400 signatures of citizens of Russia.


P.S. We will change the address of our blog in about a month, from kaliningrad-eu.blogspot.com to Prussia-EU.blogspot.com

Friday, December 7, 2012

We shall overcome! For Königsberg!

Our initiative group began collecting signatures for renaming back to historical name of our city - Königsberg. In late December, signatures of Russians in favour of Königsberg will be passed to local Parliament (Kaliningrad Oblast Duma). The legal basis for initiative is the Russian Federal Law «on Geographical Features Names» № 152-FZ ( from 1997). The number of required signatures is not regulated by federal law.
We shall overcome! For Königsberg!

Thursday, October 4, 2012

FIFA and the world: Cancel the World Cup 2018, in "Kaliningrad", the city named after a criminal.

Sign petition on the following link:
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/fifa-and-the-world-cancel-the-world-cup-2018-in-kaliningrad-the-city-named-after-criminal



We, ask FIFA to cancel the decision on holding the World Cup 2018, in a city with immoral name "Kaliningrad". "Kaliningrad" is the former Königsberg, which was renamed in 1946 to "honor" Mikhail Kalinin. Mikhail Kalinin - Chairman of Presidium of the Soviet Union, de jure the first face of the country. He is responsible for international crimes against humanity. Kalinin`s signatures on the documents for mass killings, repression and terror. Kalinin legalized killing children from the age 12. Children were killed by this criminal "law", only one «Butovo firing range» ( the mass grave) is the proof of that among many others. Kalinin signed documents for killing Polish people - Katyn Massacre. The World Cup in so-called "Kaliningrad", it is like holding the World Cup in "Himmlerburg". Holding World Cup in so called "Kaliningrad" means smearing out the world community in blood of innocent victims of the butcher Kalinin. We find it unacceptable to our moral and ethical principles, if the World Cup will be held in so-called "Kaliningrad", in the city named after criminal. The spirit of the World Cup does not correspond to the city, where international criminal such as Mikhail Kalinin is immortalized. We are for the World Cup 2018, but in Königsberg.
Here just some of the documents indicating the crimes of Mikhail Kalinin.
The Soviet law for execution of children approved by Kalinin.
http://www.echo.msk.ru/att/element-652515-misc-Postanovlenie-podpisi.jpg
http://ipvnews.org/pandora/articles/ar002/images/002.jpg
http://ipvnews.org/pandora/articles/ar002/images/003.jpg
http://дети-до18.рф/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/element-652515-misc-Postanovlenie.jpg
Mass executions of innocent Soviet citizens approved by Kalinin.
http://manwithdogs.users.photofile.ru/photo/manwithdogs/96053009/xlarge/107177324.jpg
http://manwithdogs.users.photofile.ru/photo/manwithdogs/96053009/xlarge/107177358.jpg
http://radosvet.net/uploads/posts/2010-01/1263905432_107218787.jpg
A decree about harsher «law» enforcement.
http://s009.radikal.ru/i309/1210/43/a7354aa61878.gif
The Katyn massacre is a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by NKVD, the Soviet secret police, in April and May 1940. This official secret ( not any more) document was approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including Mikhail Kalinin. The number of victims is estimated up to 22,000.
http://www.zakonia.ru/pict/1-4.jpg

You could post this petition to FIFA on following address: Fédération Internationale de Football Association FIFA-Strasse 20, P.O. Box 8044 Zurich, Switzerland. Alternatively send them a letter from their link: http://www.fifa.com/contact/form.html

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Norwegian view on Baltic Republican Party.

Norwegian story by Eirik Strøm, for University of Oslo about today`s social and political life in Königsberg. Politicly presented with two banned Parties in Russia - Baltic Republican Party and National Bolshevik Party.
http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=163475
Download the PDF file with 110 pages. http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=163475&fid=101197

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Separatism tendencies and the future of Königsberg.

                         Königsberg


                       Frankfurt am Main


Friday, July 20, 2012

Where are the Prussians?

by Andrew M Bergman
Growing up in the latter half of the 20th Century, depending on where you happened to be in the world, it was often neither popular nor PC if you were saddled with a niggling identity that included the historically taboo epithet “Prussian”.
Recent online debates on the subject have added it to the agenda in the minds of many, across the full spectrum of the political landscape. In 2012, anyone prepared to offer a cut-and-dried answer to that question is either a fool or historically illiterate.
From a purely de jure historical perspective, Prussia was effectively abolished in 1932 and ceased to exist in 1947. Therefore, while many born after the latter date may claim to be “Prussian” by clear ancestry, descending from the original Prussian tribes has long ceased to be a prerequisite.

The first time I heard the term “Prussian” was from my father who, as a liberal Jew fled from his birthplace of Königsberg to the Netherlands in 1933 and thence to South Africa in 1936. He then served in Her Majesty’s South African Forces in WWII in North Africa, Italy and Palestine. He was at pains (for obvious reasons) to de-emphasise his “German-ness” and officially removed the second “n” from Bergmann. “Bergman” is comfortably Dutch or Swedish.
He didn’t talk much of his experiences during the war, but one conversation – probably related over the chessboard at which he usually whipped my ass – is burned onto my brain.
While his English was near-native in its correctness, Dad always retained a German accent. He never went into any detail, but related how, while moving between Prisoners of War after Montgomery’s occupation of Tobruk, he encountered Afrika Korps men who had been at school or college with him. Predictably, during the war and thereafter, comrades and friends had asked him how he felt about “a German fighting against the Germans”. He had a standard answer that might sound glib, but while apologists might dismiss the semantics of it, it was uttered with profound conviction and had a deep impact on my own feeling of identity: “I was never a German fighting the Germans. I was only ever Prussian fighting the nazis”. And then if anyone pointed out: “A Prussian Jew,” he would be quick to retort: “I prefer to consider myself a Jewish Prussian.”

specially after the war, while the fact that the nazis (probably just like the Afrika Korps, occasionally represented by men who were at school or college with him) had herded his mother and father (who carried the rank of Colonel and held the Iron Cross 1st Class) and countless uncles, aunts and cousins into the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Trebinka, Sobibor etc. as “Jews” understandably prompted him to reject any vestige of a “German” identity, down to the point of never teaching or speaking the language to me. Somehow, though, he seemed to  have felt no less “Prussian”. As a child of the 1960s, the distinction was to lie in ambush until after I’d fought my own war in Africa.

It was about two hours, fifteen minutes and 24 seconds into my compulsory military service in South Africa that I realised the benefit of having a Prussian father with several generations of hussars in the family tree. I used to joke as a teenager: “My father’s not my father, he’s my Sergeant Major.” Suffice to say that he’d taught me to temper my rebellious nature, taught me to say Yes Sir! convincingly so I took to military life a fish to water.

Towards the end of his life, by which time I was a cadet reporter on the local daily with far less reason to temper any rebelliousness, we happened to be watching the TV news together when an item appeared showing some or other neo-nazi manifestation in Germany. Groups of leather-clad yobs shouted fascist slogans, while carefully avoiding actual nazi chants (which would get them arrested immediately in Germany today) and not displaying any swastikas or SS runes for the same reason. “See,” Dad said, pointing to a particularly beer-bloated skinhead who was waving the Imperial War Ensign while bellowing inarticulately, “they can’t display their Hakenkreuz so they’ve hijacked our flag, and here they are, dragging it through the mud. It’s going to be up to your generation to take it back and restore its honour”.
During WWI, the similarity between the British White Ensign and the German War Ensign
caused so many "friendly fire" incidents in the poor light of the English Channel and the
North Sea that Royal Navy ships took to flying the Red (Merchant) Ensign. 














Dad’s story is one of countless similar ones that live on in the aural history of individuals, but alas, mainstream history is written (at best tinged and at worst biased) by the victors, undeniably for the masses. Those who have studied history will appreciate that “Prussia” has, for worryingly illogical reasons, become (erroneously) associated with an undereducated fascist minority and thence the whipping boy blamed for WWI and much of the nationalistic militarism that resulted in WWII. The example of the likes of Claus Von Stauffenberg (a Schwabian with Prussian roots) is the exception that proves the rule.

Then, some history is selectively and retrospectively un-written. It’s seldom prominently mentioned (usually tucked away in paragraph 51 of page 6 of chapter 17) in (English-language) accounts of the Battle of Waterloo: The fact that Wellington’s victory was by no means secure until the arrival of the eccentric (code for: mad as a bucket of frogs) and brilliant (the two so often cohabit) General Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher with fresh PRUSSIAN troops! Curiously, the Hanoverians and Hessians etc. who fought suffer no such violence at the hands of post-1914 historical editors.

But the question remains: Who are the Prussians today? For unless you are deluded, you can’t wipe-away the identity of an entire nation with the stroke of a (un)diplomatic pen.

Feeling “Prussian” is complex, especially considering the water - and considerable quantities of blood - that have flowed under the proverbial bridge in our name.

And as always, the facts are far more subtle.

Prussia’s enlightened “founding Father”, Emperor Frederick the Great – arguably the first monarch in history to achieve a state of inward military preparedness without outward bellicosity – who composed the Hohensalzburger Marsch to commemorate his (militarily unpredicted) victory over the Austrians – must have done double-back-flips in his grave when he saw what was perpetrated from ’33 to ’45 for “Germanic supremacy”, often “in his name” by the cohorts of a (very dangerous) little Austrian corporal.

In reality, Emperor Frederick was a consummate composer, an able musician (specifically on the flute) and a committed Freemason who, repeatedly in his many writings which should be read in the vernacular of the zeitgeist, extolled the benefits of multiculturalism and raised questions that Western Europe and the World are still wrestling with today. In basic terms, he asserted that a monarch (leader) should not show clear allegiance to one or other political or religious group, lest it alienate the others. And the strength of an Empire is in its diversity.

So in 2012, who is a Prussian? You’ll get different answers from anyone you ask. It has interesting commonalities (and comparable infinity in its answers) with the questions: who is an Englishman/Frenchman (perish the thought we open the can of dragon larvae that’s labelled: “who is a Jew?)

So, is a Prussian someone who can trace his/her ancestry back to the pre-Germanic Prussian tribes? Undeniably and quintessentially yes!

Is a Prussian a descendant of the Germans, Poles, Balts etc. who either settled or were “resettled” there over the centuries and came to call it home? Yes!

Is a Prussian someone with Russian ancestry who was born in Kaliningrad yet strives for modern western-looking democratic ideals? Yes!

Is a Prussian someone whose philosophy of multicultural harmony and mutual cultural respect mirrors that of Emperor Frederick the Great? Certainly!

When considering the above, the only conclusion I can come to is that in 2012, whoever considers themselves to be a Prussian must be embraced as a Prussian. When they return from the diaspora of the 20th Century (don’t expect them to come back in droves, at least not initially), most will still “look Prussian”, but it would be naïve to ignore that East Prussians cast far and wide will certainly have resulted in some who might have an Asian, African or other ethnic “look”, while still nurturing a sincere and zealous East Prussian loyalty and/or identity.

History has made ethnicity irrelevant – you can no more judge the quality of a human being from the colour of their skin than you can from the colour of their eyes, or the books they hold sacred. Nor can I hold any man guilty of the crimes his father might have committed against mine. We can't look backwards 'cause like it or not, none of us is going that way. So In my book:

1)      Whoever would go to the barricades for democratic freedom of self-determination for what Moscow calls the “Oblast of Kaliningrad” is a Prussian.

2)      Whoever would step forward to govern (or just to contribute) once the occupation of Moscow is lifted (or if necessarily overthrown), that is a Prussian!

3)    In the spirit of Frederik the Great, we will keep our gloves clean to extend the hand of friendship to all who will take it, but we will keep our swords sharp to defend ourselves against those who will not.


Count me in on all of the above.

Ich bin ein Preuße, kennt ihr meine Farben?

Sunday, July 15, 2012

P-Russian Parade in Königsberg 15.07.2012


A Prussian Parade was held at 13h00 on July 15 near the Lower Pond (Schloβteich) in Königsberg. The route was along the Lower Pond. The participants in the Parade carried flags of Prussia and Königsberg, as well as the Russian imperial flags. Musicians played Prussian tunes, such as "Prussian glory", "Das Ostpreussenlied/Land der dunklen Wälder" "Fredericus Rex", "Ännchen von Tharau" and other compositions. The symbol of the parade was the wild flower, cornflower.
The purpose of this event was to highlight centuries of history of the region; the many common links connecting Prussia and Russia. Prussian History is therefore a Russian History too!
The Parade organized by Rustam Vasiliev.
See all of the photos here:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.391652457564751.86223.100001600011335&type=3








Friday, July 6, 2012

P-russian Parade in Königsberg, on July 15 at 13:00, at Lower Pond ( Schloβteich).





















Finally the authorities of Königsberg allowing our Parade. We have got no time left ( only one week) to prepare for Parade, but I have done my best to convince the local authorities.
On July 15, at 13:00 near Lower Pond ( Schloβteich) in Königsberg the P-Russian parade will be held. The route - along the Lower Pond. We are inviting everyone. Posters and slogans are not permitted. Flags of Russian and Prussian. Other flags are coordinated with the organizers. Strict dress code - white top, black bottom. Musicians will play the Russian and Prussian tunes. Symbol of parade - wild flower, cornflower.
The purpose of this event is to highlight the stages of a centuries-old history of the region. Prussian History is a Russian History too. Many common links through the centuries connecting Prussia and Russia. Here are some milestones:
1. The Hanseatic League - which included Königsberg and Novgorod.
2.
Grand Embassy of Peter the Great - Russia's diplomatic mission in Prussia (Russian tsar Peter the Great).
3. The Battle of Eylau - Prussian and Russian troops fought together against the forces of Napoleon.
4. Seven Years' War - in which at the beginning of the war Russia fought against Prussia, but by the end of the war, Russia and Prussia were allies and fought together against Austria.
5. Oath of residents of East Prussia, (including the philosopher Immanuel Kant), to the Russian crown.
6. The Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, born Princess Charlotte of Prussia. Wife of Russian tsar Nicholas I.
7.  The Treaties of Tilsit.
8.
The Russo-Prussian. Parade at The Russo-Prussian. Parade at Kalisz ( now Poland) on. 14 September 1835
9. Holy Alliance. The Holy Alliance (also called the Grand Alliance) was a fourth coalition of Russia, Austria and Prussia created in 1815 at the behest of Czar Alexander I of Russia, signed by the three powers in Paris on September 26, 1815, in the Congress of Vienna after the defeat of Napoleon.
10. Treaty of Kalisz. The Treaty of Kalisz was signed in Kalisz on 28 February 1813, between Russia and Prussia against Napoleon I.
etc.

Phone for contacts +7 909 7755 395 Organizer of Parade: Rustam Vasiliev
E-mail: rustamvasiliev@yahoo.com

Monday, June 25, 2012

The Russian authorities banned a "P-Russian parade".


First of all, let me roughly translate for you the letter from the local authorities.
The formal reason for refusal of our Parade on 1 July, was the preparation of municipality for the festivity "City Day" on July 7. We were forbidden to hold parade without the consent of the mayor's office. Let me explain some Russian "laws". By the Kremlin "law", on "regulations of public rallies" we have to apply to the authorities for their authorization strictly 10 - 15 days before the parade. The answer from them usually in about a week. In case of violation of the "law" or unauthorized public rally the organizer fined up to 10,000 US dollars.
The authorities declining our constitutional "right" for "Freedom of Assembly". How our half-hour parade on July 1 could disturb the city event on July 7 ??? We know, that there will be no preparation by municipality on the lake shore ( the place for our Parade) and the reason for refusal just a bogus.
Those Kremlin authorities banned our Party, now they are not allowing the cultural event " The P-Russian parade in Königsberg". What will be next?
Update:
The local authorities are not allowing the P-Russian parade once again. We offered them a new route, the route of last parade. The authorities refused it and send us to the park, where is no people at all, only trees.

 

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

P-russian Parade in Königsberg, on July 1st at 13:00, at Lower Pond.




 

















On July 1st, at 13:00 near Lower Pond ( Schloβteich) in Königsberg the P-Russian parade will be held. The route - along the Lower Pond. We are inviting everyone. Posters and slogans are not permitted. Flags of Russian and Prussian. Other flags are coordinated with the organizers. Strict dress code - white top, black bottom. Musicians will play the Russian and Prussian tunes. Symbol of parade - wild flower, cornflower.
The purpose of this event is to highlight the stages of a centuries-old history of the region. Prussian History is a Russian History too. Many common links through the centuries connecting Prussia and Russia. Here are some milestones:
1. The Hanseatic League - which included Königsberg and Novgorod.
2.
Grand Embassy of Peter the Great - Russia's diplomatic mission in Prussia (Russian tsar Peter the Great).
3. The Battle of Eylau - Prussian and Russian troops fought together against the forces of Napoleon.
4. Seven Years' War - in which at the beginning of the war Russia fought against Prussia, but by the end of the war, Russia and Prussia were allies and fought together against Austria.
5. Oath of residents of East Prussia, (including the philosopher Immanuel Kant), to the Russian crown.
6. The Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, born Princess Charlotte of Prussia. Wife of Russian tsar Nicholas I.
7.  The Treaties of Tilsit.
8.
The Russo-Prussian. Parade at The Russo-Prussian. Parade at Kalisz ( now Poland) on. 14 September 1835
9. Holy Alliance. The Holy Alliance (also called the Grand Alliance) was a fourth coalition of Russia, Austria and Prussia created in 1815 at the behest of Czar Alexander I of Russia, signed by the three powers in Paris on September 26, 1815, in the Congress of Vienna after the defeat of Napoleon.
10. Treaty of Kalisz. The Treaty of Kalisz was signed in Kalisz on 28 February 1813, between Russia and Prussia against Napoleon I.
etc.

Phone for contacts 8 909 7755 395


The "Preussische allgemeine zeitung" wrote about our parade, which took place in Königsberg on May 1st and announced the parade on 1st of July. It is funny to see once again, that about the activities and people in Königsberg writes the foreign press, but not local "journalists".

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Königsberg on the march!


On the 1st of May, as part of the "Russian Labor March", the Baltic Republican Party held a rehearsal of the "P-Russian parade in Königsberg ". The event was organized jointly with the Russian nationalists of Konigsberg "The Baltic vanguard of the Russian resistance" (B.A.R.S.).

The procession was headed by a group of musicians - the old Prussian marches were played . They performed such works as "Prussian glory", "Das Ostpreussenlied/ Land der dunklen Wälder" "Fredericus Rex", "Ännchen von Tharau" and other musical composition. In the column were not only men, but also young ladies, women with children and the elderly. The demonstrators carried flags of Prussia, the Russian imperial flags and flags of non-governmental organizations. We walked from "Fisher`s village" to a submarine, basically around Königsberg Cathedral. The event was presented by people from different towns and villages of our region, from Heiligenbeil to Tilsit. Local and federal media have ignored our event. They are gladly paid their attention to communistic march which supported by local authority.

The purpose of this event is to highlight the stages of a centuries-old history of the region. Prussian History is a Russian History too. Many common links through the centuries connecting Prussia and Russia. Here are some milestones:
1. The Hanseatic League - which included Königsberg and Novgorod.
2.
Grand Embassy of Peter the Great - Russia's diplomatic mission in Prussia (Russian tsar Peter the Great).
3. The Battle of Eylau - Prussian and Russian troops fought together against the forces of Napoleon.
4. Seven Years' War - in which at the beginning of the war Russia fought against Prussia, but by the end of the war, Russia and Prussia were allies and fought together against Austria.
5. Oath of residents of East Prussia, (including the philosopher Immanuel Kant), to the Russian crown.
6. The Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, born Princess Charlotte of Prussia. Wife of Russian tsar Nicholas I.
7.  The Treaties of Tilsit.
etc.
We thank all participants (especially musicians) and police.
Welcome to "P-Russian parade in Konigsberg 2012" which will take place on 1-st of July in
Königsberg.
More photos:
on the Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.344150705648260.78110.100001600011335&type=1 
on the Russian service "VK"
http://vk.com/album16529525_00?rev=1


Thursday, March 15, 2012

The P-Russian Parade in Königsberg 2012

We are starting the campaign for the annual "P-Russian Parade in Königsberg", in Summer. It will be looking like an Orange Order Parade in the UK, but with Ostpreußen flags and symbols. We will be marching proudly, wearing black trousers and white shirts ( colours of Ostpreußen flag). We have got no money for the live band ( now), but there will be a car ahead of us, which will be playing old Prussian tunes and marches.
It will be a cultural event, so we will call for support worldwide. May be some people abroad will come and join us on march, support the Parade financially too.
For today, without any advertisement 300 people are ready to join the Parade.  On the 1-of May it will be a trail version of Parade, probably without the music. We will walk around the Cathedral ( Königsberger Dom), along the Pregel river. The proper Parade planed in Summer. Organizers of the Parade decided, that the main Parade will be on 1 of July.
We will invite Historical reenactment people, people with horses from Trakehnen and so on.
If we will find sponsors, there will be free local beer for participants of Parade, concert and may be a fireworks.
We invite anybody to join the Parade.
e-mail rustamvasiliev@yahoo.com
mobile phone +7 909 7755395

Financial support to the "P-Russian Parade in Königsberg 2012", you could provide by donating money into our Visa debit card of "Finservice" bank.

For Euro
Bank Finserviсe JSC, Moscow, Russia
SWIFT: KOMXRUMM
асс. № 30109978900010002305
with Development Capital Bank, Moscow, Russia
SWIFT: VIZIRUMM
acc.№ 100-9478090-00 with Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt, Germany
SWIFT: DEUTDEFF
acc. No 40817978800001000001
in favor of : Rustam Vasilev, card № 4299 0771 2557 7650


For US dollars
BANK FINSERVICE,MOSCOW,RUSSIA SWIFT – KOMX RU MM ACCOUNT № 30109840300010002305
With Development Capital Bank, MOSCOW, RUSSIA SWIFT: VIZI RU MM
ACCOUNT №04446018
With Deutsche Bank Trust Company Аmericas,New York, UNITED STATES
SWIFT:BKTR US 33
acc. No 40817840200001000001
in favor of : Rustam Vasilev, card № 4299 0771 2557 7650