Abstract
This article addresses the myth-making narratives of the Great Patriotic War in Kaliningrad Oblast’ in the Russian Federation. The myth of the war became one of the key elements of Russia’s politics of memory, serving as a tool of legitimisation for the authoritarian regime and a source of Russian national pride and patriotism. However, the regional version of this discourse is more than merely a historical narrative imposed by central power structures. The war serves as a foundational myth of Soviet Kaliningrad, which replaced German Königsberg in 1946. As such, it validates the presence of the postwar migrant community on the formerly German territory and frames the identity formation process.
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