The abandoned Soviet palace that people love to hate - BBC REEL 

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I've already watched it so I won't bother

They don't work, they dont appear even when turned "on".

Prussians were not always Germans ! That land was occupied by Germans since Polish kind of invited them to fight against pagans. Dear BBC, you are against true like all British !

It's time the Russians were kicked out of Königsberg. We can't have these colonial thugs and murders living amongst civilised people.

Thank you to Vasily and Anastasia

good too see people respecting the german history of the land they took over after they war. Instead of it being forgotten like the soviet government tried to do.

@@brooklynforge4591 glad their protecting it here in America no one wants to volunteer and help persevere local historical sites they just vandalize it

Why? Communism is a death cult.

Their government too busy with killing Ukrainians

Try to understand a simple thing. The USSR was not Russia. Russia had magnificent architecture. Unfortunately, many valuable buildings were destroyed by the communists and Germans. Many German cities were destroyed by the British and Americans

You mean soviets pushed building the cheapest, most crappy buildings. Commies are so sad

Hahah....well said my friend

Thanks for comment. @@arnoldroy4072

The only people these days that are in love with and that romanticize the Soviets are the British, for some reason, but they've always had a fetish for the exotic.

It isn’t St. Petersburg and belongs to the Russians. It’ll never be a beautiful city again. Heartbreaking to see historic buildings demolished only to erect these monstrosities.

It's time the Russians were kicked out of Königsberg. We can't have these colonial thugs and murders living amongst civilised people.

Konigsberg is Germany!

As long as Russia illegally occupies Konigsberg, this will not happen.

​@@avtoeraты много хочешь! Да и не забывайте про уголовную статью в России. УК РФ Статья 280.1. Публичные призывы к осуществлению действий, направленных на нарушение территориальной целостности Российской Федерации (введена Федеральным законом от 28.12.2013 N 433-ФЗ) 1. Публичные призывы к осуществлению действий, направленных на нарушение территориальной целостности Российской Федерации, совершенные лицом после его привлечения к административной ответственности за аналогичное деяние в течение одного года, - (в ред. Федерального закона от 08.12.2020 N 425-ФЗ) (см. текст в предыдущей редакции) наказываются штрафом в размере от двухсот тысяч до четырехсот тысяч рублей или в размере заработной платы или иного дохода осужденного за период от одного года до двух лет, либо принудительными работами на срок до трех лет, либо арестом на срок от четырех до шести месяцев, либо лишением свободы на срок до четырех лет с лишением права занимать определенные должности или заниматься определенной деятельностью на тот же срок. (в ред. Федеральных законов от 21.07.2014 N 274-ФЗ, от 08.12.2020 N 425-ФЗ) (см. текст в предыдущей редакции) 2. Те же деяния, совершенные с использованием средств массовой информации либо электронных или информационно-телекоммуникационных сетей (включая сеть "Интернет"), - наказываются обязательными работами на срок до четырехсот восьмидесяти часов с лишением права занимать определенные должности или заниматься определенной деятельностью на срок до трех лет либо лишением свободы на срок до пяти лет с лишением права занимать определенные должности или заниматься определенной деятельностью на срок до трех лет. (часть 2 в ред. Федерального закона от 21.07.2014 N 274-ФЗ) (см. текст в предыдущей редакции)

and me!

with some ethnic cleansing urges in the mix.

Brutalism is pretty cool though. But despite its appearances it has to be maintained, just like any other buildings, and that's often not done so they fall into disrepair and become eyesores.

Same!

It's time the Russians were kicked out of Königsberg. We can't have these colonial thugs and murders living amongst civilised people.

I mean, it is quite logical artistically speaking. The old German buildings are quite nice to look at compared to the brutalistic emotionless Soviet buildings. The German buildings have a certain charm to it in terms of art, while the Soviet buildings are just meant to be usable.

@@boilingwateronthestovewhile they have their place, I will agree that the Soviet style apartment blocks leave a lot to be desired aesthetically, but The House of Soviets might just be one of the most visually interesting buildings I have ever seen.

@@boilingwateronthestove the fun thing about Kaliningrad is that while the House of Soviets is still looming over the city, you won't notice the regular standardized commieblocks. They weren't demolished or anything, just prettied up to suit the old architecture and diversify from each other, and end up rather soulful in their own right. Nobody else in Russia does this.

The original inhabitants are long gone; assimilated or exiled. Sami people, among other identities, I believe.

No point really. It's not fit for purpose. Detractors see it as a monument representing the failure of Soviet Socialism. If you like this style of building, you will also like the Russian Embassy in Cuba.

They already demolished it

Yes it's harder to hear the speech, which is a shame for a Russian language learner.

Same!

Turn on the subtitles. ;)

There are english subtitles. You have to switch them on, though.

@@peter_meyer Youre thinking of 'closed captioning', which is different. This guy speaks for quite a while yet we've no idea what he's saying. I'd have liked to have known what he said...

my guy have no clue what your problem is the english cc’s work absolutely fine in translating what the man says

What's the difference between closed captions and subtitles??? Prat

Subtitle (from The Free Dictionary): A printed translation of foreign-language dialogue shown at the bottom of the screen, as in a film or a television broadcast. Closed Caption (from Wikipedia): HTML5 defines subtitles as a "transcription or translation of the dialogue when sound is available but not understood" by the viewer (for example, dialogue in a foreign language) and captions as a "transcription or translation of the dialogue, sound effects, relevant musical cues, and other relevant audio information when sound is unavailable or not clearly audible" (for example, when audio is muted or the viewer is deaf or hard of hearing).[1] It's YT that needs to change it's titling. Furthermore it took 20-30 seconds before it kicked in after I turned it on. Your comment reflects on you 'prat'...

It symbolizes Victory over Nazism (Germany). Little Konigsberg got paved over and became Kaliningrad 😂

​@@12226"Little Königsberg" had more influence on the world than your "Kaliningrad ever will.

@@kentrosaurusboi3909 Doesn't matter, Little Konigsberg does not exist anymore, its monuments and landmarks gone forever 😆 at least we let the germans keep its memory

@@12226 Look at this guy, he doesn't realize the same thing is happening to his beloved "Russia"

@@kentrosaurusboi3909 ?????

Its called war mate, people hating and killing each other duuuhhhh! It's still happening around the world...saddly

Sir you are just describing normal Russian behavior. Did you just discover that Russians existed?

Nazi boy take your pill and calm down.

@@edgarpina2665 oh yes I find what happened after the war particularly messed up. That palace is justified as a symbol of unity but to me it looks like they were trying to annihilate their people's spirit

@@copiumdealer1 Stalin killed innocent people due to starvation

Getting deported probably wasn’t even in the top 10 worst things that happened to people during and after WW2.

That's how I feel about third world countries. America isn't at war with them yet they come here in endless hordes while we are supposed to be their "enemy."

Ironically it's probably what original Prussians feeled when Germans did it first at the exact place)))

so people of this area didn't serve in the German military?

Tell that to the former Soviets that destroyed the older buildings this town used to have.

What the hell are you talking about? They destroyed historical German castles and building this ugly garbage, which in a couple of decades they left in ruins. What is being preserved? Tear down that crap and put back up the Teutonic stuff. Soviets just spread ugliness and terror, why preserve their crap!

@@baqaqipekhebi7148 There were no more buildings in this area after the carpet bombing of the British. It was a wasteland. It is noteworthy that the port buildings two blocks from this are in excellent condition. Even the guy at the beginning says it was empty for half the city.

Confederate monuments in the United States were built 60 years after the Civil War. Not to preserve history or honor brave soldiers. But as a warning sign to minorities who were gaining civil rights. Often the monuments contained deliberate distortions of historical events. Case in point, the state capitol grounds in Austin, Texas. It has small monuments to World Wars I/II, and THREE huge monuments to the confederacy. The main monument claims that the confederacy only fought to preserve the constitution, not to preserve slavery. Unfortunate for the author of these lies, the letter of secession is easily accessible to the public. It says the word "slave" or "slavery" something like 16 times in two short pages. If we are going to preserve history, how about real history and not propaganda and lies.

No where in that entire paragraph did it mention Slavery or the Confederacy. Stop, for once in your life, making everything about Slavery in the US.@@texaswunderkind

She literally said that. However, for 99% of modern history, the city was German and that honestly is what matters

So only German ocupiers history matters?

@@goranpesevski2121 You're funny. Clearly you didn't understand that the subject of my argument is modern history. For further explanation as you clearly can't read. Lviv was a majority Ukrainian city. But what matters in modern history is that it belonged to Poland until it was unjustly assigned to Ukraine in 1945. So it is with East Prussia.

@@kentrosaurusboi3909 Maybe I can't read but you can't read the first comment obviously which was for the original population,not for modern times. The Germans wiped out the natives and stole their name. So if this place ever changes hands it should go to the Baltic people not the people that caused so much suffering in Europe in the MODERN times.

@@goranpesevski2121 Again you speak from blindness. Where I agree with you is on the suffering that the Nazis brought. But frankly for the rest of your argument you sound like a Polish communist during the 1950. Did you so quickly forget the fact that Slavs also colonized each other and did practically the exact same thing. How do you think the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth came to be? Also, good job not reading my argument and proving my sarcasm, because the person is alluding to the fact that the last 1000 years of German settlement is nothing and completely ignores the fact that this is already mentioned in the video we all watched.

Baltic, not Polish. The Old Prutsians were a West-Baltic people that eventually mixed with the German settlers.

@@juavi6987 Polish, there was no Królewiec when it was Baltic and old prussians didnt mix, they got genocided.

Too bad Germany was what it was at the time I guess.

Most of my family was murdered by Germans just because they weren't considered to be humans enough. I have no pity for your grandparents, sorry

Koenigsberg = Kingsmountain = Tsar-Gora = Царь-Гора

Стоит переименовать? Это ты так решил? Не лезь не в своё дело

Let's rename Berlin for example in swainfurt.

Kyonigsberg 🇷🇺

Crimea and Donbass is not Ukraine.

Read about British colonialism. You will feel more delighted

@@av9823Then with whom did your handlers sign a lease for the naval base at Sevastopol - in Crimea?

@@av9823Of course it is

@@av9823 For most of history, Crimea was neither part of Ukraine nor Russia. Russia can feel free to give it back to the Turks or the Greeks at any time. The Donbas isn't even a thing. Putin's propaganda machine fabricated stories of a persecuted Russian-speaking minority to justify his murderous war of lies. If Putin cared for these Russian-speaking people so much, why didn't he offer them land inside the vast territory of Russia, the largest nation on the planet? Instead, the King of Lies talked of Nazis and secret bioweapons labs. Putin is a modern-day Hitler, and there is no disputing that.

They are reversible, mate, always were. The fabric side is softer.

Turn on the English closed captioning.

lazzy bum

Почему не на фронте, костян? Неужели за яхту Ахметова умереть не хочется?

It describes ukrainian propaganda😂

That's because you don't speak Русский

No, there were an agreements that Kalinigrad is the part of the USSR

maybe give it back to prussians

@@zavaraninoveuhorky Prussians got extinct by the 17th century. But there are some indigenous people still alive and seeking independence in Caucasus and Siberia.

@@pistoletprezesa6835 Seems like my Family have been extinct for the last 300 years.

@@MrXxHunter He meant the Baltic tribe not the German Prussians. German Prussians took their name from the Baltic Prussians after conquering and assimilating the population in the area.

@@hairharbor5080 Assimilation doesn‘t mean going extinct tho.

Koenigsebg was destroyed by British aircraft... Some people take jokes about toilets for facts. I would write about these people, but censorship won't let me through. By the way, Russia and the USSR are two different states. Before the revolution, Russian cities, even secondary ones, were magnificent. For example, Proskurov. Russia took this miserable settlement with two huts. In the second half of the 19th century, it turned into a little Paris.

@@rossinvictus yes, the city was bombed by brits, but the systematic removing of the german past was done by russian soviet party. They desired remove all. It's sad because nowadays Kaliningrad could be like Gdańsk. Polish restored all the possible to obtain something beautiful for the entire population instead in Kaliningrad the reds decided to left all like after war and to use the region like a big military knife into Europe. The legend of the bathrooms is not a legend. My wife is polish from Wolyna. And there was the same. She has cousins that lived personally those facts (the german cousins from Kazakhstan, deported after the war from ex german territories..). I hope that the new generation and russian president decide to rebuild and restore all the things possible. Imagine if the robot (abandoned building without a sense) could be destroyed to rebuild the old castle and the previous houses of the old city center.. It could be simply great.

@@walsch80 Putin and his gang are ideological heirs of forces that destroyed Russia during the civil war. If one of Romanovs came to power ( I am very impressed with Rostilav Romanov) Russian Renaissance would begin...although a few years ago, a number of soviet houses were converted into old European ones. Perhaps historical Konigsberg will be completely restored under this government.

Are you really so stupid?

Ага, размечтался

It must deteriorate with Lithuania???

Lithuania will deteriorate until the day it becomes a part of Russia

New neighborhoods of Kalinigrad are very beautiful and modern

Лучше про незалежную и ее успехи расскажи, как то за 30 лет вообще прогресса нема

@@conag9864 30 лет русское говно вычищаем из Украины, а оно все лезет и лезет. 300 лет окупации "братьями" как-никак

Уникальный многолетний проект под названием "украина", посмотри на места, которые захватили уркаинцы Разруха

It's called Kaliningrad. The last country that had this territory named Konigsberg ended up really badly ))

@jcee2259 What a stupid comment. They never were nor is China now communist. You might want to look up the definition of "communist".

Why should they leave their houses?

It would be nice if the British government and people just leave Scotland and go back to England

Following Putin's logic, the bulk of non-Siberian Russia belongs to Mongolia. Putin can feel free to return it to its rightful owner anytime.

Cry more

Return Czechia to Austria, lol

No, it's not

@conag9864 You don't have to dig deep into historical records to find out it was only supposed to be a temporary OCCUPATION. Stalin had other ideas and thus it was illegally retained by the USSR. This is irrespective to Germany renouncing its claim to East Prussia.

​@@mercilyngono8955слеюушай иди-ка ты лесом. Сталин, не Сталин, планы.

@@mercilyngono8955 oh, temporary, I see...

All western part of Poland is technically occupied by it

That's mostly what the BBC is these days. A WEF propoganda machine. Although this actually isn't "prooaganda". They do make some interesting unbiased documentary material.

Что здесь пропаганда? То что они показали советскую архитектуру?

Даже "хранитель руин" выглядит наивно. Девушка, которая находит образцы плитки и старинных дверей и их фотографирует, - единственная, кто внушает надежду.