Life in Kaliningrad - The European Russia?
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2024
- In this video I interviewed Oleg Skvortsov, a local from Kaliningrad who tells me about the cultural links between Germany and Kaliningrad as well as Alla Ivanova, who is a local politician and answered some of my questions concerning local politics in Kaliningrad. I hope that video gives you a small inside on the history and the culture of this unknown Russian territory.
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This Russian man is very well educated and the German reporter found the right man to interview.
Only Putin took his sleeves away
It's strange that you called the video The European Russia, when the majority of Russians live in Europe.
I think it is good that Russia is keeping and valuing its cultural identity in the different regions/oblasts. I also believe that especially the European nations under the EU are becoming a cultural melting pot without any special identity. Russia is special due to its cultural richness these days and the special thing about Kaliningrad is obviously that it is surrounded by "European (EU) States".
Frx bx01 wtf
@Frx bx01 europe is part of Eurasia idiot
in geographical terms most of Russians live in Europe, but culturally they're more Mongolian than anything with their hunger for territory at all costs and brainwashed cultural retardment as shown with they stubbornness in perceiving with their totally disastrous economical Communist recipe in comparison to our western culture.
Александер Лешуков learn to speak English so you can be understood worldwide. What you’re saying is just not inteligible.
Weather sure looks nice in Königsberg
*Kalingrad
@@andrewsagaralaski3857
*Königsberg
*Kaliningrad
And the germans own it? Lmao, Kaliningrad is Russian end of, germany doesn't even claim it.
Królewiec 🇵🇱🇵🇱.
I just went for a vacation to to Germany, Poland and Kaliningrad and the buildings were so we'll kept in Poland and Germany and in Kaliningrad everything was falling apart, it looked like a 3rd world country. I can't believe that Russia is so poor that it can't even keep those buildings in Kaliningrad in a better condition, it's an embarrassment compared to the way Germany and Poland takes care of their architecture. Someone tell Russia to stop pumping money into their military and take care of your roads, buildings and people.
Well kept buildings in Germany? I guess gou missed the real parts of Germany.
It will never happen; Soviet anti-architecture (I just could not say architecture) is revolting to say the least and they did manage to do incredible damange in my country Poland too, unfortunately :(
When it was Koenigsberg,it was the capital of the eastern German province of East Prussia.Some of my Barth ancestors lived there when it was a German city from 1630 to at least 1754,friends.
Well, they were still german invaders in those lands.
I'm from the Netherlands and my roots laying in Kaliningrad.
koningsberg vriend
Read who Kalinin is (the new soviet city has taken name) and you’ll be disgusted to say the least
Koningsbergen 💪
So you roots from Russia? 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
@@kavarnyikferenc3729 That's pretty much impossible since Russians have only really been living there since 1946. Pretty sure he means that he has East-Prussian roots.
KALININGRAD will always
have German - Russian
culture...
Amen
Hiszpania , will Always Arab, roman, portugal, cultura! Look The history !
Once a beautiful Prussian city, where every building and every street had some history attached to it, now just another provincial russian town, indistinguishable from the others. Whatever scraps of german architecture remain here are in terrible condition and mostly abandoned, systematically demolished by the moscows "entrepreneurs" in order to build yet another faceless 10-story commieblock in their place. Local government is corrupt(big surprise) and gladly sells the land to the highest bidder. Even the cobblestone roads are taken apart and used in construction of saunas for the ruling elites. In 20 or so years, there will be absolutely nothing left to save. The economic situation is even worse. Prices are high while wages are below national average, which speaks volumes considering it's russia we're talking about. Not to mention rising unemployment and third world level healthcare. All of this, in the middle of europe. Yet our government prefers to invest into military above all else. tl;dr: the place is a shithole, don't come here, unless dying of krokodil overdose in some ruined german building is what you are looking for.
I understand that you're living in Kaliningrad, right? What do you think should be changed to improve that region? I'm honestly interested to know.
Please join Germany! Germans aren’t showing a lust for the territory but you from the region should make a referendum for it. Germany is far far far from perfect but Kaliningrad as Königsberg will always be able to provide better for its citizens.
@@jwelke9 why would germany even consider that? Not only it's an economical liability, there are also over a million russians living here. iirc, germany was offered this region back in the 90's which they refused.
My Family used to reside in Konigsberg before the war. Generations of my family are buried there and Ive never visited but would love to
My father's side of the family are also from there. My grandparents left in the early 30s to escape what was coming.
For all I know, I may still have living relatives there.
All Germans were "removed"after the war
it's a shithole nowadays, all of it's history has been wiped out and it's full of Soviet hideous buildings. A true shithole my friend.
@@adamwnt true
I met and worked with a beautiful girl from Kaliningrad a few years ago...Veronika! If your out there...I've never forgotten you! You will always be my Russian Doll! My Matryoshka!😍😘 Mr.Bob from Bethany Beach, Delaware USA
3:03 i love how those 2 are making out on the background
Really enjoy your media channel! Keep up the good work!
Greetings from South Africa!
Thank you very much. I try :)
Be proud, you live in prussian soil :))
Hungaryan soil🤘🐺🤘🐺🤘
But what about Moscow it’s in Europe too over the 25% of Russia’s land it’s in Europe not just Kaliningrad
geographically you may be right, but not culturally my friend, far from it
Russia is borderline asiatic....its Eurasian not fully Europe.
So many comments on who should b the rightful owner! Great interview, I learned so much from these ppl in just 12 minutes, thanks
Centuries ago, Russia owned Kaliningrad and east Prussia for six years from say, about 1690 to about 1696. Or say from 1776 to 1792, I forgot the years. It's all overgoogle searches, which years Russian Kingdom of the Romanov Dynasty owned East Prussia. Battle of Eylau is one such battle. Germany owned Kaliningrad for a few centuries while Poland also owned east Prussia for a few centuries. In 1940, Nazi Germany declared that it will conquer all Slavic countries and re-settle these countries with Soviet citizens with German word anywhere in their names. eg. Boris Fritz Yeltsin, Boris Vindman Volkov, Ivan alexei Vindman. At the end of world war 2, the winning allies in Potsdam decided to give a larger area of East Prussia to Poland, as Poland had also owned East Prussia for a few earlier centuries many centuries back. Meanwhile, any ethnic Russian or Ukrainian with a German word in their names were allowed to re-settle into Kaliningrad, a smaller part of East Prussia. So, the ww2 allies decided to implement Hitler's plans at Potsdam meetings and Yalta meetings, to give a little percentage of land of East Prussia , the seaport part, to Russia, in order to re-settle Soviet citizens with a German word somewhere in their names in the smaller north part of East Prussia, which they called Kaliningrad. Russia got , say about 25 percent of East Prussia while Poland got 75 percent of landmass of East Prussia at the end of ww2. Both areas of former East Prussia are full or Poles or ethnic Russians, over 90 percent, as of today.
It is now Slavic land.
What would be the international political outcome if Köningsberg/Kaliningrad evolved into a country on its own?
pigs might fly my friend. Kalinigrad (just the name makes me sick, read who Kalinin was), has been fully Russified and the douchebag sitting in Moscow would never give up on it.
I think I theyd better more like their Baltic neighbours which would be cool, they could pick a new name
It is a nonsense. Why should Russians want to separete Kaliningrad from Russia? It is like separeting Pomerania from FRG or Essex from UK. It makes no sense. There live the same people just like in Moscow, St.Petersburg, Novosibirsk or other Russian cities. Both ethnically and culturally.
Lets restore Prussia ;)
@@weibrot8324 pRussia. Almost the same, so don't worry. :)
Szkoda że zapomnieli o Królewcu, ja im przypomnę.
I was on holiday in Kaliningrad in 2013. It was great.
Kaliningrad is Russian. Germans can not expect to get this back and than start the whole shit all over again. And if Germany wants Kaliningrad, than they probably also want Gdansk in Poland and so on. And than this will causeso much problems it might start a new war. If Germany wanted to keep Kaliningrad and parts of Poland, than Germany should not have started the WWII gamble.
Germany and territorial claims abroad... A high explosive mixture.
It's a pity that the nationalist in Germany aren't repressed that hard in Germany. Did I say 'pity'? .... It's a BIG SHAME!!!! F*CK NAZI'S!!!
Kaliningrad belong to Poland. Its Polish town Królewiec!
@@morvran9074 its baltic
@@geertvanschaik7976 Ik vrees dat u de actualiteiten in Duitsland niet erg goed volgt, want in Duitsland is elk gevoel van nationalisme of nationale trots een groot taboe. Dit betekent natuurlijk niet, dat er geen Duitse neonazi's zouden zijn, die zijn er helaas wel, maar wij Duitsers hebben niettemin een zeer complexe houding ten opzichte van nationaliteit, ethniciteit etc. Te beweren dat Kaliningrad volledig Russisch is, lijkt me trouwens ook enigzins kort door de bocht, te meer daar de Russen zelf het Duitse verleden van Kaliningrad erkennen. En neen, daarmee vorder ik het gebied zeker en vast niet terug, gezien ik wel iets zie in een nauwe vriendschap tussen Rusland en Duitsland. Trouwens, elke Duitser die dat wil, kan daar gaan wonen, in Kaliningrad. Hij of zij zal wel Russisch moeten leren en uiteraard in zijn levensonderhoud moeten kunnen voorzien, maar er zijn ergere dingen dan dat, dunkt me.
@@morvran9074 No, no, you did a great job by rebuilding Gdansk/Danzig, but Königsberg/Kaliningrad belongs to the Russians now. In my opinion, it would be cool if it would become an own country called „Prussia”, with a mixture of Russian, Polish, Lithuanian and last but not least German culture, but that won't happen.
Kaliningrad needs to be independent of Russia and form its own country.
Norit, kad putlerstanas užpultų Lietuvą pasinaudodamas tokiomis ir panašiomis kalbomis?
@@manometras Prie ko čia Lietuva?
@@Cofeeman911 , ar jūs ne lietuvis? Neaiškinkim rusams, kas turi būti iš to jų suš... Kaliningrado, tegul jau patys sprendžia. Jie gali pasinaudoti mūsų aiškinimais ir mes nukentėsim. O mes jiems nieko padaryti negalime.
@@manometras Kam norėsiu, tam ir aiškinsiu. Aš nesu Lietuvos ambasadorius ir už mano žodžius gali kaltinti tik mane.
Jei nori pulti, iš durnumo, tegul puola, gaus per ausį ir išeis...
And we would call it Prussia and the culture would be a mixture of Russian, Polish, Lithuanian and last but not least German culture? And in the shool kids would learn also Old Prussian, just like kids now learn Latin language?
hi am indian and if i want visit kiliningrad mean i need russia tourist visa? or some more permision?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Russia
the history is gone, the place has been fully Russified and now is full of hideous Soviet buildings. I wonder what on earth drives you to this place.
microphone is so fuzzy; cannot become disentranced by its luxurious ruffling in the breeze
its so cute russia owning a little piece of land a bit furthur away lol
A European Russia when Russia is part of EUROPE.
Thank you max, very good discussion 🙋♂️🇦🇺
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Very interesting great job
Do you post any more videos?
Very good conversation. Very intelligent Kaliningrad citizen
*Koenigsberg
John Murphy lol what?
I would say a brain-washed citizen
It is german clay.
No, Prussians, a Baltic Nation, lived there for at least 3000 years. Even 200 years after being conquered, at least half of the population were Prussians (about 1500). In the south were polish speaking Masurians, in the northeast Lithuanians and Curonians
Until the end of 19th century, East Prussia was an ethnic patchwork, though Germans dominated.
Königsberg is Germany
Josef Wissarionowitsch Stalin Nope that what happen when you lose a war.
Königsberg and East Prussia will forever remain part of Germany.
Germany is Syria, Iran and Afghanistan.
Königsberg ist Deutschland!
Andi Roth it was a area where the Prussian which United the German people the make the German Empire or the First United German State
It's nice to see that a Star Trek tribble has found work as a microphone.
Today Kaliningrad is more Russian than vodka the only german thing in Kaliningrad are the old buildings but the rest of the city has soviet russian style buildings
If kaliningrad were germanistan it would be full of refugees
This is how city of kings transformed to the city of degenerates. In October 1945, only about 5,000 Soviet civilians lived in the territory.[7] Between October 1947 and October 1948, about 100,000 Germans were forcibly moved to Germany.[8] About 400,000 Soviet civilians arrived by 1948.[7] Some moved voluntarily, but as the number of willing settlers proved insufficient, collective farms were given quotas of how many people they had to send to Kaliningrad.[7] Often they sent the least socially desirable individuals, such as alcoholics or the uneducated.[7]
Regardless of who actually lives there, this is actually German territory, and it would be really very nice of Russia to return this land that they have borrowed temporarily. This I think would also help improve relations between Russia and Europe that shares so much common European, Western culture and thinking.
Luis Luis then what is the consequence of genocide of aboriginal people in Siberia? The robbers should be Eliminated! Give the land back to its own people! Go back to Moscow!
Luis Luis Russia must out of Siberia!
Robbers out!
Yes, it would increase the relations of europe and russia alot, russia isnt the enemy of europe, its the lost son of europe :)
@ApplePie We dont like our government, do you really think we are to dumb to make a revolution?
Nobody seriously didn't notice from 2.20 the couple behind making out non stop hqhqh
I have never been to that country. I read Internet news and articles. Russia was always in Europe, until Vladimir the Great started a break away church known as (Greek) Orthodox church in 988 AD, and ordered the people of Rus to convert from Catholicism to Orthodox Christianity and ordered just a few royal officials to shift eastward towards Moscow village. Rus in 988 AD was a kingdom of Europe, of size about the combined area of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Catholic priests and popes of Rus and Kyiv were ordered to serve as orthodox Christian priests in their former churches in Rus, Kyiv and Moscow, or to leave for Rome, in case they wanted to keep serving as Catholic priests. In 988 AD, king Vladimir the Great issued a declaration /memo that Orthodox Christianity was suddenly born in Rus, in a kingdom where Catholicism never existed formerly , ever. In 988, He ordered the capital village of Rus to be shifted from Kyiv to Moscow village In 988 AD, probably, to defend itself in case of an invasion and holy war ordered in future by the Pope. . Because of bad roads in 988 AD and no aircrafts and because of lack of funds, the shifting of the capital of Rus from Kyiv to Moscow village was completed in 1150 AD or so, long after Vladimir the Great, the former king of Rus was dead.
just the name of this city makes me sick (go ppl and read carefully who Kalinin was), even Leningrad changed its name now being St. Petersburg, but not Kaliningrad, which shows how much Russified both politically and culturally (not to mention the ubiquity of the hideous Soviet architecture) this once historic place has been.
you don't have to look.
@@АлександерЛешуковof course you don't have to look. In fact let's hide his Bolshevik revolutionary past in the dark and the fact that he signed an order to execute 25,700 Polish nationals.
@@adamwnt began poor poles all you trumps .as the Germans themselves divided Czechoslovakia was fine.Katani will find you there soon will not let and will demolish the hell this monument as you do with the monuments of Russian who died in the amount of 600000 so close your mouth pole.
What's the problem with kaliningrad being russified its a part of Russia
Definetely better, than have a capital named after slave-owner and slave-trader (like USA does).
no dude, Kant wasn`t russian, don`t embezzle him, he was German.
Move on with your lives, Kaliningrad is Russian, Memel is Lithuanian and Gdansk is Polish. You lost, they won. Kaliningrad will never be German again.
How do you know? Are you from the future? I bet the Romans thought their empire will be forever too, but look how much different the world is now. Borders are constantly changing, who knows what will happen one day.
Memel is German, Klaipeda is Lithuanian. Your own words betray your acknowledgement that this land will always be German. The video itself affirms this fact.
Silesia, Pomerania and East Prussia belong to Germany. 14 million Germans were ethnically cleansed from eastern Germany 1945-1950
Robert S good. That’s your punishment.
You misinterpret the point of this video and these trips.
Very nice place. Do not argue about history. It was what it was and it is what it is now. Make friends instead of devide each other.
The young man with blond hair knows his history not very wel. the people who are living in kaliningrad are russian people from all over the USSR.
Königsberg in East Prussia... Germany.
Robert S Germany lost war so its not german
Yes Germany lost the war but after WW1 the Russian Empire collapsed and Germany gained control of parts of Russia and Germany gave them all back and did not just etnicially cleanse them like Russians did to eastern Germany. Imagine some day if Russia lost a war and St Petersburg and a quarter of Russia were ethnically cleansed and St Petersburg renamed and all its inhabitants replaced by Germans, I would never try to justify something like that and I would continue to call St Petersburg by its correct name. There is no moral justification to take eastern Germany which was the same size as Belgium, Netherlands Denmark and Northern Ireland combined from its German people.
R e s t o r e E a s t
P r u s s i a.
Königsberg belongs to Germany !
ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/images/langmaps/GermanSlavicborderlines-blog427.jpg
Very simple solution. Look at how Russia returned the Crimea. Without shots, without blood. If you can do the same with Kaliningrad, you're welcome. But I guarantee you, you can't)
Someday the Prussian flag will rise again over Königsberg, Danzig and Breslau. Never forget the East-Homeland !
P-Russian flag still flying above Kaliningrad ,and will stand there for many long centuries together with the war flags of the Pomerania .When we conquer our western territories from Ashkenazi-Alemannic mongrels the banner of the Polabian Sorbs will once again stand over the Slavic Berlin.
Dream on, moron, dream on.
Kalashnikov Flow what are you talking about? :) Are you going to raise your flag together with turks and arabs, who invaded your country? I dont think so. You have bigger concerns believe me
History repeats itself: only the price for those follies gets higher.
Srbska Hussaria it’s also part of The
Deutsch Kaiserreich (German Empire) the first United Germany
dear i am indian and reside in vienna. i wish to be in kaliningrad. guide me about this city.
Blood Squad Germany act like they did nothing wrong also they invaded soviet union and lost.
yes. may be there was about 2.5 as you said. they did it after germans killed 27million soviets. better say us about burning alive soviet villages with as you said "women, children and elderly".
Stop talking rubbish , first visit the place , and drink in the ethos and the very history of this place instead of making jingoistic,parochial and blinkered statements that we have so come to be acquainted with the singularly opinionated social media creatures who never get out into the real world from behind their computers. A piece of land is not just a fortune of politics it is much , much more than that . Bunch of atavistic idiots With intellects so low that you would need a forklift to raise it from the gutters of their thoughts. Travel ,see, enjoy the cuisine,talk to people , know the land before making stupid crass postings , and I thought the average westerner was quite open and intelligent . Now I know white skin and postings on social media do not a human maketh !!
The ethnic cleansing of 14 million indigenous Germans from the German regions East Prussia, West Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia was the largest incident of ethnic cleansing in history. Due to its industrial scale the ethnic cleansing of the Germans continued until the early 1950s.
the history is gone, the place has been fully Russified and now is full of hideous Soviet buildings. I wonder what on earth drives you to this place.
KALININGRAD --- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania_Minor
give the land back to germany
No
try it and you will see the whole germany will be russia
RUSSKALIN , I CALL IT - RUSSKALIN REPUBLIC , NEUTRAL COUNTRY & RICH ❤ LIKE SWITZERLAND 🇨🇭 _ RUSSIAN&GERMAN ❤ RUSSKALIN REPUBLIC - KALININGRAD OBLAST
Some time in the 1950s the Soviet Unions Khrushchev actually proposed Lithuania to annex Kaliningrad, but the leader of Lithuania didn’t want to mix the Russian population into his country. What a dumb mistake in my opinion, he should have been more open minded of the potential benefits for the future of his country. I’m sure a small country like Lithuania would be in a better situation today had they accepted that deal back then. I’m sure Poles would also much rather prefer a larger border with Lithuania than what is now. Anyway I think most people would like it if someday Kaliningrad became an independent country. They would probably not have too much of a problem in joining the European Union as a new nation and would have more opportunities in the future. Oh and it would make sense for them to change their name if they became a country. Right now Russia imposes stress in an otherwise peaceful region.
"didn’t want to mix the Russian population into his country. What a dumb mistake in my opinion"
Well, you can see with the crimera-peninsula what happens when you take "presents" from russia....
Love is in the air in Kaliningrad. The young couple making out in the background. :D
i am ignorant this is the first time i know about this russian city in the heart of euroup.
*Prussian City in the heart of Germany.... Konigsberg was the capital before Berlin became Germany's capital in the 18th century.
Its german.
war 2 was a german mistake that changed european borders...germans still have in mind be great and take back lost lands...after 2 wars they made and lost they must learn...but as you see they dont...modern economic war is for sure a kind of war...lets see who will finally be the winner..
With the loss so high for Germany you would think Hitler was recruited by British intelligence to be mind fucked, and then sent back as a contagion.
No worry ! No one wins forever!
The germans learned, they just want their lands back, nothing more, nothing less.
We have enaught of world wars!
@@weibrot8324 they learned nothing,they do the same by economy war...as for lands,those lands were captured by Teutons some centuries back and were losted after war..what losted in war gained by war...unfortunately Germans never learn...they still think they are the leading country of Europe but after 1945 is a kind of ex country...since captured by allies...as Germans did ex countries the captured countries between 1940-45...
I'm coming there tonight
Донецьк - це Україна!
I call Kaliningrad always " the little Russia"
I have good memories about the peoples in Kaliningrad, not the holes in the streets!!!!
Königsberg is Germany.
Tim Ruhani Königsberg is russian now and its call Kaliningrad.. it was given to russia after ww 2, and in 1990 the soviet doing the reunification of germany talks, wanted to return Kaliningrad but the german government at the time refuse to take it back... one german minister even said they won't take Kaliningrad back if it was free...The Soviet were shock at the german refusal to take back Kaliningrad...
airrodgers no wander; the place is a shithole; the history has been totally wiped out and the Soviet reconstruction there is just revolting.
@@adamwnt which means it's on longer German Königsberg is it now.
@@airrodgers7277 if all the Russians left I bet they would take it back
Kaliningrad is official territory of Russia. It's been Russian for 70+ years.
it is always german,we will resettle this land and deport all of you see how you guys feel
Kyle west lmao good luck bro
Livion Order stole Królewiec (Kaliningrad) from Kingdom of polen!
yes indeed, along with their newly built hideous Soviet architecture (if you can call it architecture) that totally spoilt this once historical city.
Germans ruled there for 800 years
mostly young and High culture level generation live in Kaliningrad . Girls are actually were born at 2000 or more
"The European Russia?"? You are suggesting that the rest of Russia is NOT in Europe?
@Opt. Medusa but 90% of Russia lives in Europe
Geographically you’re right, mentally and culturally you are NOT!
Does it seem to you that Vladimir Putin looks like a European!
Aruba is one thing and Siberia is another thing
The First Person interviewed was very nice Cultured and Kind the Woman too thanks a lot for the video my grandparents were ukraiinian bu t anyway i like russia and Hope that in the Future russia and Ukraine will be Friends i would like tnavalni to Win the elections in Rusia the ein russia
Interesting interviews. Too bad the world developed in the wrong direction since then. I am sure your interviewees would agree. 😢
It s time for 🇪🇺 to save this area
LITHUANIA DOES NOT HAVE AND DOES NOT WANT TO HAVE ANY TROOPS IN RUSSIA, IN KALININGRAD REGION. NATO schould protect Lithuania because Lithuania can't protect itself from RUSSIA alone.
Occupied Öst Preußen.
Return to Germany. East Prussia.
Preocúpate primero por recuperar la independencia de Alemania. Es un Estado vasallo, ocupado por decenas de bases y tropas americanas y no le queda ni atisbo de dignidad. ¡Quién la ha visto y quién la ve!
Lacayos. Vergüenza os debería dar.
It is full Russian the German didn't want it back with Russian people.
Königsberg will return one day to Germany and that’s sure
And Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark
@@GuilhermeSilva-lt6rw i am not Arab but Kurd. Because I see the unfair of that time still running nowadays
@@Diablito8042 You have all rights it say that if it is really belonging to Denmark but it is absolutely not
@@Jebbar.Mohammed but kaliningrad as well is absolutely not belonging to Germany anymore
@@GuilhermeSilva-lt6rw From Iraq
Kaliningrad??? You mean Königsberg
@sock06555 yeaaah I realised that after writin the comment but I said fuck it hahaha have a nice day
Germany you mean Turkland
@@heronrodriguez fuck you
No, I mean Kaliningrad.
@@heronrodriguez I thought Germany is a colony of Middle East?
East Prussia was owned by three groups : Teudonic knights owned it longest , Germany owned it and Imperial Russia owned East Prussia for all of 5 years at about the time of American independence. The decision to give East Prussia to Russia and Poland was likely right, gift by winning allies of ww2 was likely right: that way the militarily over-ambitious clans of East Prussia will no longer have a homeland close to Warsaw to wage invasion wars on Slavic lands. East Prussia was about 55 miles from Warsaw, making it easier for Germans living in East Prussia to mount raids on the Polish capital city 55 miles away. .. Russian kingdom also owned East Prussia for all of five years, to six years from about 1775 to about 1780. Teutonic knights owned East Prussia for about a thousand (1000) years. Germany conquered East Prussia for another 1000 years. Russia owned East Prussia for the shortest time, from about 1776 to about 1791 or so. In about 1777, locals of East Prussia (likely ethnic Germans of East Prussia) had an audience with the czar in Saint Petersburg (capital city of Imperial Russia of the Romanov Dynasty) , and ethnic Germans convinced the the Russian Czar to vacate East Prussia in about 1777, as ".. we would like to inform your majesty that Imperial Russia had enough land." The Czar agreed with them, and in about that time in about 1776 he decided to give East Prussia from Russia to a local German kingdom of the area, and ordered that Imperial Imperial armies vacate East Prussia. In 1945, the situation was different:: Nazi Germany had just tried to conquer all of Russia in ww2 and conquer all of the Slavic lands east of Germany in ww2, while massacring Slavic peoples both Christians and Jews during ww2. So, Soviet Union convinced the winning allies to let Russia keep the smaller north sea-side section of East Prussia known as Kaliningrad today, while Poland gets more land from Germany, including the bulk of East Prussia nearer to Warsaw, and parts of East Prussia south of the Russian sea-side area of Kaliningrad. The military clans of East Prussia were disbanded after ww2, and given more docile last names. Why were Soviet troops cruel and East Prussia and very nice at the moment of entry into every town and village in aminland Germany? As per terms of Crimea accord, Russia was to keep the sea side areas of East Prussia (formerly of Nazi Germany) while Poland gets the larger area of the rest of East Prussia inland which were close to Warsaw.This way the allies reasoned there will never be a ww3.
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sure kaliningrad cost 26millions of lives, surely russia will give it back
@@romt5649 As if that justifies Russia's claim to the territory. Besides, many of those deaths were caused by the Soviets themselves, and not just by the Nazis. Read the petition description properly to truly understand what this is about.
IT was polish too.
Originally Baltic
@@ravkoleavikk8577 The territory was inhabitde by Baltic tribes, yes, but the city of Königsberg was founded by the German Knights of the Teutonic Order. So it was a German city from the beginning. But the territory was indeed also inhabited by Poles and Lithuanians.
@@Spinnradler Prussia was a baltic, polish, dutch, french and german country wich speaked later german.
Dude everyone and their Momma has owned part of that territory... It's Russia's right now and in 20 years it might be sweden, or Lithuania, or Poland... Who the hell knows.
We fought the wrong enemy. That won't happen again. American and German super powers!
Wrong anemy ? Please go over with this you are historical mistakes
The biggest mistake was the destruction of prussia the ruler of german unity and culture.
I wonder if Germany is capable of taking it back
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I want independent KNR (Kalingrad/Konigsberg National Republic)
Kaliningrad is Russia
Königsberg in East Prussia is GERMANY!!!
It is a big phylosophical question where is Russia. It is almost impossible to know where Russia begins and where it can end.
Blood Squad Germany lost Russia won
Blood Squad Crimea was always Russian
Russia doesn't have enough land?
not russian litva
Spr place
Restor MAKEDONIA...
Yes, Makedonija 🇲🇰🇲🇰♥️👍!
Why does the kid holding the mike keep looking at the camera......must be an ego thing and watching too much CNN. No one cares what you look like, just let the intervewies tell the story.
With the collapse of the Russian Federation, Poland and Lithuania will have claims on this land. Іn my opinion, the Germans left forever
Its german and if not at leat prussian, there is no legal claim from Poland and Lithuania.
Yes, the german history is over. Without russia, it will either become Lithuanian or polish. Perhaps divided in half. But after the annexation of the crimeran peninsula, no country of the former eastern-block wants a bigger russian minority in his borders.
@@TOFKAS01 lol
@@weibrot8324 I don't even know why Germans want Kaliningrad... Why do you want an enclave disconnected from your own home country... This has caused WW2 before why set it up again... First you get Kaliningrad... Then Germans are going to start referring to Gdansk as Danzig again... Next thing you know there will be politicians talking about connecting the lands... A tale as old as time.
No. Konigsberg WAS Prussian. That was before Germany started another World War. Will those
people never learn.
Alleinschuld and the Ruhr anexion, you winner countries provoke the second war!
But yes, the holocaust was a german guilt wich the germans today arent responsible for but still remember the world on it.
Kaliningrad is Russian and Kosovo is Serbia
kosovo majko ti ahhaahhaahah
I agree with Kosovo is siberia but what the fuck this is an whole entire different argument,so.
1. Kosovo was historic Serbian land but kaliningrad was never historically Russian!!!
@Turkic Federation where did you brainless get an education? What year was St. Petersburg part of Finland? What year did the state of Finland appear?
Kosovo is Serbia = Konigsberg/Kalingrad is Germany 😂
Russian gangsters. Get out from Prussia
Russia is european ever time and space and Russia are Russian. In the past Russia was frontier protected Europa every shot asian tribes. Russia development is a dual recognized european and asiatic culture. Life in Europe saved for Russia every time in the history.
They also removed North Asians so much that most people dont even know they exists, Yakuts, Chuchkis and Nivks were never going to attack Europe
Russia is a European country.
RF is the last barbarian of Europe 😄
Донецьк - це Україна!
konigsberg,eastern germany
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Kaliningrad is the Stalin's joke....after the ww2 whole eastern Prussia should have go to PL....
Well, the Poles did a great job by rebuilding Gdansk/Danzig. My grandfather loves to visit Gdansk/Danzig, he thinks it is one of the most beautiful town he've seen, but he was disappointed about Kaliningrad/Königsberg. But I think it is cool to have a part of Russian so near and the history of Kaliningrad/Königsberg is so fascinating. Of course, as a German, I admit that it would be cool if it would be still German, but that it is not anymore, that is our own fault.
No, again the poles have no legal claim on it, 1234 the poles allowed the german knightly order (also the katholic pope) to form out of the regional prusian clans a christian east european nation wich get later the prussians and formed lster the united germany, the polish nation have claims on belarus but not on prussia!
@@weibrot8324 indeed. As far as I remember, the rulers of Poland wanted access to the Baltic Sea and asked the German Knight Order for help against the Baltic Prussai. I do not see in any way how Poland can claim this land to be theirs. Maybe also not the Germans. Only descendants of the old Baltic Prussians. So maybe only those who do the effort to learn the old Prussian language. I mean, wasn't Hebrew gone extinct too? And now it is spoken again.
Russian?..... *KÖNIGSBERG IST PREUẞEN*
@Roman Gaivoronski Prepare yourself to fight, and your freund Dimitri too!
@@fritzfromsouth5935 verpiss dich
Königsberg is Germany
Germany killed tens of millions of Russian people - these are the consequences!
@@4franz4 they deserved it for conquering and Killing finno ugrians and other natives in siberia and the urals.
@@danielw.8356 thank your ancestors who began the war, sorry for all the Germans were not finished.
@terminalgremlin No, you are wrong. Civilian losses of Ww2 between Russia and Germany are incomparable. Check the statistics. Germans were just deported to the East Germany after WW2, while East slavs were supposed to be wiped out as a nation by nazis.
@@danielw.8356 Yes we slaughtered millions of soldiers and invaders from Nazi Germany and their puppet states during WW2 in the battles. Rest in pieces, nazis.