A Czech lawmaker has suggested holding a referendum on making Kaliningrad Region “Czech-Polish”
A long-time European Parliament member from the Czech Republic, Tomas Zdechovsky, has supported an idea posted by a blogger of separating the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad from Moscow and splitting it between Prague and Warsaw.
On Thursday, Zdechovsky shared a tweet from a Polish blogger showing a map of Russia’s westernmost Kaliningrad Region being split between Poland and the Czech Republic. The caption to the image read: “It’s time to divide Kaliningrad, so that our Czech brothers finally have access to the sea.”
The Czech politician, who has been an MEP since 2014, even suggested a plan for how to have the region removed from Russia.
“We will hold a referendum to make Kaliningrad Czech-Polish,” he wrote, adding that “instructions” on organizing a vote could be taken from Crimea. The peninsula decided to become part of Russia in the wake of a 2014 referendum following the US-backed overthrow of the democratically-elected government of Viktor Yanukovich in Kiev.
“Je čas rozdělit Kaliningrad, aby naši čeští bratři měli konečně přístup k moři”
A pak nemilujte Polaky 😄 https://t.co/hLhyBDZQJm
— Tomáš Zdechovský (@TomasZdechovsky) September 29, 2022