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Königsberg was the Prussian coronation city and Kant's home — he never left the region — and it was destroyed in 1944 and 1945, then given to the Soviet Union and resettled entirely. The cathedral was restored from a shell in the 1990s with Kant's tomb on its outer wall, and the region is now separated from Russia by two EU members.

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