POLITICAL MAP OF FUTURE CENTRAL EUROPE ACCORDING TO VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY Cover Image

MAPA POLITYCZNA PRZYSZŁEJ EUROPY ŚRODKOWEJ WEDŁUG WŁADIMIRA ŻYRINOWSKIEGO
POLITICAL MAP OF FUTURE CENTRAL EUROPE ACCORDING TO VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY

Author(s): Piotr Eberhardt
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Maps / Cartography, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Geopolitics
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Geopolityczne
Keywords: Russia; Central Europe; Vladimir Zhirinovsky; political map;

Summary/Abstract: Article analysis a map of Central and Eastern Europe by Vladimir Zhirinovsky, which was published on January 29, 1994 in “Le Monde”. It covers part of the European continent. In the south, covers Italy and as Greece, north of the Scandinavian peninsula scraps. In contrast, in the East map contains a large part of Ukraine and Belarus, while in the West the essential part of Germany. It can be assumed that the object of analysis is the territory situated between the Baltic, the Black Sea and the Adriatic. On this map are defined lines of future political boundaries of states. This type of partitioning demarcation passes through central Poland between the Gulf of Gdansk and the Carpathians. The whole western part of the Poland, essentially Pomerania, Greater Poland and Silesia are connected to Germany. To the “future German Reich” Zhirinovsky adds Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovenia. Despite its bizarre nature, it reflects the way of thinking and ideas to a wide range of Russian geopoliticians. It should be mentioned that it was also extremely critically assessed by a more enlightened geographers and demographers Russian. But at the same time showed that in Russia there is a substantial and influential group of political activists, who have not come to terms with the collapse of the Soviet empire and create a permanently different scenarios for the future of territorial changes in Europe and to recover the lost country and province. Aware of his limited opportunities, are still counting on the use of German revisionism.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 9-19
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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