Is it true that a country once called Prussia has been divided among Poland, Germany and the USSR? Does that country still exist today?

boghat

Prussia was a region in Europe that gained considerable influence in the 1700s and 1800s. It was n nation or kingdom made up, at various times and to various extents, of Germany and Poland and other modern surrounding countries like Austria. The naming of Prussia fell out of use when Germany was unified in 1871. At the end of WWI the Hohenzollern monarchy fell out of a power and Germany became a Republic. "Prussia as a state was abolished de facto by the Nazis in 1934 and de jure by the Allied Control Council in 1947 in the aftermath of World War II. " Prussia was never part of the USSR or the Soviet Union as the USSR formed in 1922 and Prussia didn't exist anymore by that time, it was just Germany. Former lands that Prussia was in control of, like parts of Poland, did end up becoming part of the Soviet Union however. The Kingdom of Prussia does not exist any more today and neither does the USSR. These empires have been split into the smaller countries we know of today like Germany, Poland, and Russia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union Oct 14 07, 8:33 AM

Baloo55th

Konigsberg was at one time under the Teutonic Knights, and later formed part of the early Duchy of Prussia. When the Duchy of Prussia passed by marriage into the Brandenburg family of Hohenzollern, the former Prussia became East Prussia, and remained German until the end of WW II. When Poland's borders moved westward after the war, Konigsberg became part of the USSR as Kalinigrad, and is now part od Russia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad Although the Duchy of Prussia was in its first days a fief of Poland, it was never a Polish state. Oct 14 07, 3:46 PM