Abstract
Like many other towns in East Prussia, Klaipėda lost almost all its former population during World WarII and was inhabited by newcomers after 1945. After an example of Klaipėda, the article analyzes theprocess of comprehension of a newly inhabited area and making it one’s own. Klaipėda became a formerEast Prussian city having returned to Lithuania and simultaneously incorporated into the Soviet Union.That caused the clash of interests, the development of which also changed the systems of meanings thatprovided a framework for the appropriation process. The city was gradually comprehended in the processof formation of unique interrelationships of the meanings of Soviet ideology, all-Union patriotism, Lithuaniannational culture, and East Prussian cultural heritage. In the article, the author identifies the processesthat affected different configurations of the said interrelationships in different post-war periods. KEY WORDS: Klaipėda, East Prussia, Soviet ideology, Lithuanian nationalism, Lithuania Minor, EastPrussian cultural heritage, symbolic appropriation. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.15181/ahuk.v24i0.297
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