Interesting interviews. Too bad the world developed in the wrong direction since then. I am sure your interviewees would agree. 😢
@mercomania Жыл бұрын
Occupied Öst Preußen.
@ashvienis Жыл бұрын
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]
@ashvienis Жыл бұрын
no dude, Kant wasn`t russian, don`t embezzle him, he was German.
@arushikishore39692 жыл бұрын
its so cute russia owning a little piece of land a bit furthur away lol
Prussia lands stolen by russia and stuffed with ethnic russians during stalin. Tada!
@grct73912 жыл бұрын
It s time for 🇪🇺 to save this area
@michaelmorrison14082 жыл бұрын
Love is in the air in Kaliningrad. The young couple making out in the background. :D
@antonjensen10883 жыл бұрын
Diebe!
@Johntb1003 жыл бұрын
Донецьк - це Україна!
@1980bdr3 жыл бұрын
Does it seem to you that Vladimir Putin looks like a European! Aruba is one thing and Siberia is another thing
@rupakgbikas44773 жыл бұрын
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.
@snuggles033 жыл бұрын
Do you post any more videos?
@fritzfromsouth59353 жыл бұрын
Russian?..... *KÖNIGSBERG IST PREUẞEN*
@fritzfromsouth59353 жыл бұрын
@Roman Gaivoronski Prepare yourself to fight, and your freund Dimitri too!
@thraciandude3 жыл бұрын
@@fritzfromsouth5935 verpiss dich
@ImperialZorn6863 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Germany is capable of taking it back
@johnsnowkumar3593 жыл бұрын
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.
@THE_ELÐEN_LORÐ2 жыл бұрын
It is now Slavic land.
@Jebbar.Mohammed3 жыл бұрын
Königsberg will return one day to Germany and that’s sure
@Diablito80423 жыл бұрын
And Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark
@Jebbar.Mohammed3 жыл бұрын
@@GuilhermeSilva-lt6rw i am not Arab but Kurd. Because I see the unfair of that time still running nowadays
@Jebbar.Mohammed3 жыл бұрын
@@Diablito8042 You have all rights it say that if it is really belonging to Denmark but it is absolutely not
@Diablito80423 жыл бұрын
@@Jebbar.Mohammed but kaliningrad as well is absolutely not belonging to Germany anymore
@Jebbar.Mohammed3 жыл бұрын
@@GuilhermeSilva-lt6rw From Iraq
@kampilandelacruz49253 жыл бұрын
A European Russia when Russia is part of EUROPE.
@tylerbozinovski46244 жыл бұрын
Sign this petition: chng.it/QdyQ6SnT
@romt56494 жыл бұрын
sure kaliningrad cost 26millions of lives, surely russia will give it back
@tylerbozinovski46244 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@harrysnature63494 жыл бұрын
His english sucks.
@SexyArty4 жыл бұрын
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.
@yf-zp5zf4 жыл бұрын
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.
@jwelke93 жыл бұрын
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.
@SexyArty3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@robertwheeler40684 жыл бұрын
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
@weibrot83244 жыл бұрын
I want prussia back! Sorry, but my english isnt the best ... Königsberg war Teil von Preußen das das vereinigte Deutschland und seine Geschichte beeinflusste wie kein anderer Teil Deutschlands, die UDSSR hat Königsberg völkerechtswiedrig anektiert und in Preußen einen Bevölkerungsaustausch vollzogen wie ihn die Faschisten leider damals in Russland planten, ich will Preußen zurück da es damals Völkerechtswiedrig zerstört wurde, Preußen stirbt nie! Auch ich möchte Freundschaft zwischen Deutschland und Russland und nein, ich bin kein Nazi, jedoch braucht es dafür die Angliederung Weissrusslands zu Polen und die Übergabe des besetzten preußischen Staatsgebietes an die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, der Friede ist wo die Heimat liegt/the peace is where the homeland lays.
@thraciandude3 жыл бұрын
1. Das ist nicht besetzt, es ist sein 1945 Teil von Russland 2. Russland hat es 2 mal an Deutschland angeboten - beide Male abgelehnt
@1956paterson4 жыл бұрын
This Russian man is very well educated and the German reporter found the right man to interview.
@Rblock7772 жыл бұрын
Only Putin took his sleeves away
@mikewidyk41864 жыл бұрын
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.
@TOFKAS014 жыл бұрын
"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....
@newworldorder67644 жыл бұрын
Soon all citizens in so called kaleengrad will speak GERMAN. DEUTSCHE UBER ALLES
@andrewsagaralaski38574 жыл бұрын
It’s populated by Russians so keep dreaming
@kavarnyikferenc37293 жыл бұрын
Ya, and in Berlin the turkish is the official language ! 🇹🇷
@BavarianHobbit3 жыл бұрын
Dude you are not even german.
@kavarnyikferenc37293 жыл бұрын
@Roman Gaivoronski 👍!
@newworldorder67644 жыл бұрын
Your borders? Ha ha very funny, stupid Russians will never realise
@archdornan11554 жыл бұрын
It is german clay.
@rudolfkraffzick6424 жыл бұрын
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.
@Boomerung4 жыл бұрын
It's nice to see that a Star Trek tribble has found work as a microphone.
@hellrazor98604 жыл бұрын
With the collapse of the Russian Federation, Poland and Lithuania will have claims on this land. Іn my opinion, the Germans left forever
@weibrot83244 жыл бұрын
Its german and if not at leat prussian, there is no legal claim from Poland and Lithuania.
@TOFKAS014 жыл бұрын
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.
@hellrazor98604 жыл бұрын
@@TOFKAS01 lol
@THE_ELÐEN_LORÐ2 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@hellrazor98604 жыл бұрын
I want independent KNR (Kalingrad/Konigsberg National Republic)
@manometras4 жыл бұрын
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.
@manometras4 жыл бұрын
Russian army should never bomb Lithuania or Poland. NEVER.
@goranborjesson55933 жыл бұрын
Why should Russia bomb anyone? It is USA with the puppet states of Europe that are aggressive. USA have stationed missies and troops in the Baltic stats and Poland. What would happen if the shoe was on the other foot? What if Russia had done the same in Mexico or Canada? The Cuban crisis is still fresh in memory. In the agreement between Reagan and Gorbachev was that Nato was not to expand east. USA has violated that agreement. It was the west that started the coup in the Ukraine. Europe needs to throw out USA. Russia has many times tried the reason with Europe and USA but USA is always greedy. I’m Swedish and my country has been spying on Russia for USA for decades, despite the fact that Sweden is so called neutral. Putin even suggested to Clinton that Russia should become a member of Nato. USA has started 34 wars since WW2 still all western media blames Russia and says that we should be afraid of Russia when in fact its It’s USA that is the evil empire
@manometras4 жыл бұрын
We should never let RUSSIA come and fight and occupy Lithuania again, what ever they will lie about us before they come to kill us and destroy our country. Lithuania does not want their Kaliningrad. They have lied about all the people they waged a war against.
@Cofeeman9114 жыл бұрын
Kaliningrad needs to be independent of Russia and form its own country.
@manometras4 жыл бұрын
Norit, kad putlerstanas užpultų Lietuvą pasinaudodamas tokiomis ir panašiomis kalbomis?
@Cofeeman9114 жыл бұрын
@@manometras Prie ko čia Lietuva?
@manometras4 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@Cofeeman9114 жыл бұрын
@@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...
@Spinnradler4 жыл бұрын
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?
@LOPEZ991264 жыл бұрын
Kaliningrad is the Stalin's joke....after the ww2 whole eastern Prussia should have go to PL....
@Spinnradler4 жыл бұрын
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.
@weibrot83244 жыл бұрын
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!
@Spinnradler4 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@Marozaaaa4 жыл бұрын
This man is Smart but sadly russia still would attack The europe i just feel it. I know there is good russian people but i realy feel it. That russia gona start world war 3 at 2024. Im from Lithuania between.
@hellrazor98604 жыл бұрын
EU has money for RF 😂
@hellrazor98604 жыл бұрын
P.S. Most of Russians live poor)
@Spinnradler4 жыл бұрын
Oh, is that so, you feel that Russia will start World War III and attack Europe? Ehm, excuse me, who is sending his troups to Poland, near the Russian border? The Americans, perhaps? Sorry, I have a lot more trust in Russia than in America. Europe should go more East instead of West!
@inguspodnieks90285 жыл бұрын
Nobody seriously didn't notice from 2.20 the couple behind making out non stop hqhqh
@johnsnowkumar3595 жыл бұрын
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.
@kazakhstanenjoyer84875 жыл бұрын
Russia is a European country.
@hellrazor98604 жыл бұрын
RF is the last barbarian of Europe 😄
@adamwnt5 жыл бұрын
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.
@user-bw4ic5fy3x5 жыл бұрын
you don't have to look.
@adamwnt5 жыл бұрын
@@user-bw4ic5fy3xof 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.
@user-bw4ic5fy3x5 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@Diablito80423 жыл бұрын
What's the problem with kaliningrad being russified its a part of Russia
@user-jm3xl7rg5k3 жыл бұрын
Definetely better, than have a capital named after slave-owner and slave-trader (like USA does).
@patriciabracken75465 жыл бұрын
They don't need McDonalds there. All that fast junk good.💩💩💩💩 Mother Russia is a great country.
@derlinclaire17785 жыл бұрын
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.
@kumanon94664 жыл бұрын
Well, they were still german invaders in those lands.