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December 4th, 2018 | #1 |
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No you Kant: Russians reject German thinker's name for airport
No you Kant: Russians reject German thinker's name for airport
A Russian vice-admiral has denounced the 18th-Century German philosopher Immanuel Kant as a "traitor", calling for him to be rejected in a vote to rename Russia's Kaliningrad airport. Vice-Admiral Igor Mukhametshin's rant to sailors came after anti-Kant protesters had thrown paint at a statue of the great thinker in Kaliningrad. Kant was easily beaten in the online vote by Empress Elizabeth (1709-1762). Kaliningrad was Kant's home when the Baltic city was Prussian Königsberg. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46440713 |
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