ocr: Winter descends on the city of Kaliningrad, known as Konigsberg until the Soviets renamed it in 1946. Stalin deported 139,000 Germans from the region, then replaced them with 400,000 Russians and other Slavs. "Deep in their hearts, one historian says of the Russians, "they cherished hopes to, go back home. B So too did the Germans. FHTA VESILIND, NES