This Russian man is very well educated and the German reporter found the right man to interview.

It's strange that you called the video The European Russia, when the majority of Russians live in Europe.

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.

Weather sure looks nice in Königsberg

Really enjoy your media channel! Keep up the good work! Greetings from South Africa!

KALININGRAD will always have German - Russian culture...

So many comments on who should b the rightful owner! Great interview, I learned so much from these ppl in just 12 minutes, thanks

Very interesting great job

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.

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

I'm from the Netherlands and my roots laying in Kaliningrad.

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.

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

3:03 i love how those 2 are making out on the background

Thank you max, very good discussion 🙋‍♂️🇦🇺

Szkoda że zapomnieli o Królewcu, ja im przypomnę.

A European Russia when Russia is part of EUROPE.

microphone is so fuzzy; cannot become disentranced by its luxurious ruffling in the breeze

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's nice to see that a Star Trek tribble has found work as a microphone.

Kaliningrad needs to be independent of Russia and form its own country.

But what about Moscow it’s in Europe too over the 25% of Russia’s land it’s in Europe not just Kaliningrad

What would be the international political outcome if Köningsberg/Kaliningrad evolved into a country on its own?

I'm coming there tonight

Do you post any more videos?

Königsberg is Germany

hi am indian and if i want visit kiliningrad mean i need russia tourist visa? or some more permision?

Be proud, you live in prussian soil :))

Nobody seriously didn't notice from 2.20 the couple behind making out non stop hqhqh

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no dude, Kant wasn`t russian, don`t embezzle him, he was German.

Very good conversation. Very intelligent Kaliningrad citizen

its so cute russia owning a little piece of land a bit furthur away lol

It is german clay.

i am ignorant this is the first time i know about this russian city in the heart of euroup.

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

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.

mostly young and High culture level generation live in Kaliningrad . Girls are actually were born at 2000 or more

Love is in the air in Kaliningrad. The young couple making out in the background. :D

RUSSKALIN , I CALL IT - RUSSKALIN REPUBLIC , NEUTRAL COUNTRY & RICH ❤ LIKE SWITZERLAND 🇨🇭 _ RUSSIAN&GERMAN ❤ RUSSKALIN REPUBLIC - KALININGRAD OBLAST

It s time for 🇪🇺 to save this area

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]

dear i am indian and reside in vienna. i wish to be in kaliningrad. guide me about this city.

Spr place

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.

Does it seem to you that Vladimir Putin looks like a European! Aruba is one thing and Siberia is another thing

Occupied Öst Preußen.

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.

give the land back to germany

Interesting interviews. Too bad the world developed in the wrong direction since then. I am sure your interviewees would agree. 😢

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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.

"The European Russia?"? You are suggesting that the rest of Russia is NOT in Europe?

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.

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.

Kaliningrad is official territory of Russia. It's been Russian for 70+ years.

KALININGRAD --- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania_Minor

Königsberg will return one day to Germany and that’s sure

Restor MAKEDONIA...

Königsberg in East Prussia... Germany.

I call Kaliningrad always " the little Russia" I have good memories about the peoples in Kaliningrad, not the holes in the streets!!!!

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

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.

not russian litva

I wonder if Germany is capable of taking it back

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..

IT was polish too.

Return to Germany. East Prussia.

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.

I want independent KNR (Kalingrad/Konigsberg National Republic)

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.

Russia is a European country.

We fought the wrong enemy. That won't happen again. American and German super powers!

Russian gangsters. Get out from Prussia

Kaliningrad??? You mean Königsberg

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.

Someday the Prussian flag will rise again over Königsberg, Danzig and Breslau. Never forget the East-Homeland !

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.

Kaliningrad is Russia

Kaliningrad is Russian and Kosovo is Serbia

With the collapse of the Russian Federation, Poland and Lithuania will have claims on this land. Іn my opinion, the Germans left forever

konigsberg,eastern germany

Донецьк - це Україна!

Russian?..... *KÖNIGSBERG IST PREUẞEN*

Kaliningrad is the Stalin's joke....after the ww2 whole eastern Prussia should have go to PL....

No. Konigsberg WAS Prussian. That was before Germany started another World War. Will those people never learn.

Königsberg is Germany