Czechs Make Mocking Claim On Russian Territory

Bloomberg News reports:

The Czechs have backed up their government’s rejection of Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions with a time-honored national tradition: mockery and dark humor.

Politicians and bloggers have embraced a website dedicated to the purported decision by 97.9% of residents in the Russian Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad to join the Czech Republic — and change its name to Kralovec.

No such ballot took place. But that didn’t stop the president of neighboring Slovakia, Zuzana Caputova, from considering a state visit.

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Kaliningrad has quite the interesting history.

The Czechs turned to two of their enduring character traits, mockery and dark humor, after Russia’s land grab in Ukraine, with a proposal of their own https://t.co/UOgb32TNkI

— Bloomberg (@business) October 9, 2022

I might consider a state visit. Or not.

Well done our #Czech friends for de-masking the absurdity of #Russia’s fictitious referendums in #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/iIAiXHk7uE

— Zuzana Čaputová (@ZuzanaCaputova) October 6, 2022