- Aleksandra Kosmodemyanskogo
Aleksandra Kosmodemyanskogo, formerly Lesnoy, is a village in the
Kaliningrad Oblast a few kilometres west ofKaliningrad .Prior to the creation of the Kaliningrad Oblast in 1945 the village was known as Metgethen in the German province of
East Prussia .In 1945 during the battle of
Battle of Königsberg a German counter-attack recaptured the village from theRed Army . The Germans accused the Red Army of carrying out a massacre in the village while it was under temporary Soviet occupation.
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