Why does Russia Own Kaliningrad/ Königsberg? (Short Animated Documentary) 

Can't stop laughing =)

When I was a child I was told I lived in the biggest country on Earth. At age of 4 or 5 I first saw the map of Russia - it looked like a huge horse pooping a tiny piece on the west. I asked ‘so where are we here?’ Imagine my disappointment when they pointed on this tiny piece:)

@@jerrytc2978 just shut up man... holy fuck

@@jerrytc2978 "When I was a child" he said. I don't think children care a lot of who what country is historical ennemy of what country, unless the parents want to brainwash them.

Oh man 🤣😂

explain

@@Serek_Studios you know the answer, if you haven't lived under the rock for the past year

@@xeanderman6688 that doesn’t prove anything

@@rochitgurung9090 the current Russian government uses that as a justification for war. Therefore not having any Russians in your country grants you protection from that, at least (ofc if they want they'll find another bullshit claim)

@@xeanderman6688 i hate when people are a dick instead of just explaining, so now please stop being an asshole and just explain

Just purge the russians of that zone

Kaliningrad' or Königsberg belongs 100% to the Germans of East Prussia (Königsberg in particular) and instead of helping the Ukrainian nationalist government which is hostile towards Germany, we should have taken back Königsberg and all of East Prussia.

Unfortunately you turned into Nazis and lost all credibility about "land"@@stlouisix3

⁠​⁠@@stlouisix3there are more Armenians in Kaliningrad than Germans and Poles combined. There are more Germans in New York than Germans in Poland.

@@stlouisix3 Bro thinks he's the next Austrian painter 💀💀

Most likely she couldn’t go there cause her family were Nazi, it is well known lots of Nazi escaped to the USA and didn’t receive any juridical punishment

Бывает

That's pretty depressing, dying alone in a nursing home more than a thousand miles from home and not being able to visit. I wonder how she would've felt had she visited with it being so different

@@user-ur9ru5iy3s why are you guys always so bitter

@@Paul-ck3dm Because everyone around is very kind

If you had snow at home 7 months a year, you would also be ready to fight for warm water xD

Wrong conclusion.

but U.S. bigges oil producer

@@seniorilay8291 And Russia makes warm water with Gas boiler systems.

@@seniorilay8291 U. S. Is major terrorist.

Hahahah

Different leaders, it's sad.

Dumbasses

@@kingdomofprussiaball7438 I think that it was pretty smart of them as there were virtually no Germans left in the region as they were replaced by Russians, which could cause instability if incorporated into Germany.

@Daniel Who cares about that? If I got offered a free city (especially Königsberg) I would take it without question.

The people didn't go extinct, the language did. The locals assimilated into German culture. And also they were from East Prussia, West Prussia was German for longer.

​​@@alonsoACRso we can say that it was latvians/lithuaninas with german culture. Im stupid, i didnt get it first time

Yes, the history of why the "lands of the Teutonic Knights" became technically German is pretty shameful and disturbing.

Agree, Königsberg and Prussia is literally the birthplace of modern Germany, and it all doesn't even exist anymore. If you were back in the 19th century and told people that in ~100 years Königsberg would be Russian territory with 0% German population, you would be called crazy.

Just like constantinople

@@thecakeisalie6392 And I assume if you said that during the Nazi regime you could be hung for treason.

I live in Kaliningrad rn. Yeah alot of buildings are destroyed, but there is some beautiful buildings like the german airport. its very huge like almost 2 villages.

They commited such horrid atrocities that taking away Kaliningrad was righteous

It was ultimately a bad move. Now Russia has nukes and probably will never return it. Should have deported those Russians when we had the chance

@Mor Dor 1. Vilnius was lithuanian city since it was first built, by grand duke Gediminas. So it wasn't polish, even thou majority were speaking polish, because of polish influence. 2. Your sentences " right from Stalin's hands" is not correct, because USSR were supporting lithuanian claims on Vilnius region. 3. Molotov-ribbentrop pact had nothing to do with it, except the fact that whole Territory were given to soviets. 4. It was an ultimatum for Lithuanians. If they refused the deal they would have been invaded by soviets. Stalins' words: "No matter if you take Vilnius or not, the Russian garrisons will enter Lithuania anyway".

Vilnius has been Lithuanian since before the fall of the Roman Empire you absolute sperg lol

@Mor Dor In the wars following WWI lithuania held that land but lost it to the 2nd polish republic

@Mor Dor Vilnius region was occupied by Zeligowski with the blessing of Polish rulers after WWI. Rather weird to portray Poland as a victim here and Lithuania as an agressor tbh. However, as a Lithuanian I love my Polish neighbours. Let's be friends forever!

EverydayNormalGuy that’s true. I like those cigarettes, especially blueberry ones... I am looking forward to come back when they will open borders. I use to travel there from Gniezno

Ну, так разумеется. "Под контрабанду" толкаите туда сюда. Польша-Литва, Россия-Польша...

Aleksander Lisowski Но не только контрабанда! Вообще она на последним месте... У вас вкусная кухня и хорошие люди))) Есть тоже много что можно увидеть. Мне Калининград нравится очень

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GERMAN CHOCOLATE!!!

Exactly!!! Same was with Crimea where Tatats were sent to russias interior or just killed... I hope this russian sh.thole will just collapse from inside...

@@BocaoZ oh yeah don't start this shitty russian propaganda, both russia and Germany are totally guilty of death and misery of milions in eastern europe.

@@BocaoZ there are no winners or good guys in the WW2 and the WW2 didn't end in 1945. It's just the part of the history that you know because the West washed its' hands and betrayed the whole Eastern Europe condemning it to the second wave of atrocities, tortures and genocides, that it had already lived under nazis, but this time committed by soviets. Germany excused itself, recognised its' mistakes and is feeling guilty till today. Russia however built up a "glorious liberation" fairytale and have been feeding its' population (and the naive uneducated foreigners) through generations ever since. It became truth, because if you repeat for so long something, everyone forgets what was the truth, so this becomes the truth. That's why people in Russia support Putin and this myth of the "above-all-the-other-humans-RUSSIAN-SOUL" because they are the "great liberators". This sort of extreme nationalism and superiority feeling is no different from nazism. And you probably don't know that Soviet soldiers did exactly the same atrocities what they did in Bucha also back then. And not only that. Our grandparents remember all those things very well. But sadly, it doesn't find its' way into the Western historical narrative too much. The truth about the WW2 is that it started with Ribbentrop-Molotov pact through which two psychopaths Russia and Germany divided Europe into two influence zones, like Tordesillas. And decided to eat each its' own part. One got condemned, the other was called "liberator".

In the Shadow of Wolves is a novel about german kids of Kenigsberg and how did they survived or not 2WW.

WW2 was a war of warcrimes and ethnic cleansing, and atrocities. neither alliance was pure, although most of the allied ones happened after the fact in east Europe.

HAHYSH YESSS

Heisengrad

@@user-vm4uw6vc6h hahaha :-D

Berg means city and grad means city. Logic

@@ndrechtseiter i cant tell if you are serious or joking.

Nah, russians really love exporting poverty, corruption and political instability.

@@mignas Lol. Do you prefer genocide and governmental disintegration supplied by US?

If things go south with NATO this is their unsinkable aircraft carrier group.

Russia, your number 1 choice when it comes to poverty in Europe!

@@mutaitomaster that is the balkans

who cares

Here comes the easily bored guy

Then foreigners must not be allowed? I went to pushnoy and then they stopped me because I didn't had Norwegian visa. Looked like lots of security and stuff.

@@karanchougule6075 well visa must be in any case when visiting Russia. visa-free regime is valid only with friendly countries. there are a couple of exceptions. where are you from? there is a difficult situation in the world haha. it has always been a protected region and even more so now

India.

I think Russias pacific port like in Vladivostok also doesn't freeze in winter

I think Russia got a Pacific warm water port after the Second Opium War also, when Britain lopped northern Manchuria off China and gave it to them.

*Królewiec

@@josephsaafan7838 yes, but its so far from Europe. In Russia people have strong mind that if global war Ru vs USA would start, Europe will be on USA side. So in military purposes bases in Kaliningrad justified.

@@josephsaafan7838 Murmansk port doesn't freeze but it's too far from Baltic

@@user-qe9tr9gp6b It was annexed against Ukraine's will. So the annexation was in no way compliant with the international law.

Edwin No, it’s not true. There was a democratic referendum where people of Crimea made their choice voting to reunite with Russia. So it was a historical reunification. Meanwhile, at the time Ukraine was experiencing yet another violent revolution and illegitimate coup.

@@user-qe9tr9gp6b It was not up to international standarts and not verified by independent sources.

Edwin It was actually. And there were international observers invited to accompany the procedure. Also, there was not a single drop of blood spilled during the Crimea-Russia historical reunification. For me it’s like when the Berlin Wall fell and West Germany and East Germany got reunited. People got what they desired and longed for, for many years. And their choice should be respected.

@@user-qe9tr9gp6b stop drinking vodka, it was putinxuiloendum.

We should embrace a peaceful Europe that doesn’t define itself in borders only!

Ох уж эта жуткая советская архитектура. Ты уж прости, что эти ужасные коммунисты, которые потеряли десятки миллионов сограждан в войне, десятки тысяч городов и деревень, вместе с инфраструктурой, не успели тебе за пару десятилетий отстроить роскошных зданий и домов. А строили быстро и из того, что было, чтобы у таких поляков, как ты, был кров над головой после войны. Странно, что ваша демократичная власть так мало думает о вас и не построит вам бесплатно новые и раскосные дома, вместо «ужасных советских», раз ты жалуешься. Вроде войны то подобной той не было, да и «злых русских» у вас нет уже более 30 лет

@@th3WhiteKnight No, the south of Prussia already had a sizeable Polish population for a long time, which was even mentioned in this video. Much different situation than that of Russia - before 1945 there was virtually no Russians in this area

@@th3WhiteKnight There were massive population movements after the war, yeah, they were all organised by Russians though

@@th3WhiteKnightyeah pretty much most of eastern and balkan europe had massive ethnic cleaning post WWI, well before WWII kicked off. Turns out large multiethnic empires tend to become quite mixed in a way nationalistic ethno states really dont like

Unturned is hell of a drug Never again, not even once

Stalin missclicked

Just reset the Peace Conference

@@3mir420 nope. Stalin was really serious about that. Churchill laughed about this, when Stalin talked about that, but Stalin still got it.

Damn peace treaty menu.

When you forgot to select a country to cede a province to in HOI4

There is always that 1 province you forget to annex lol

@@lieutenantsupascoop2126 Always press take all states. And then slowly carve it up afterwards.

In hoi*

This is what happens when I accidentally don’t select a small province, then I ponder my life choices. Lol

Happy New Year!

me, an actual intellectual: Królewiec

Normies: Königsberg Me, an intellectual: Karaliáučius also germans don't even call it Königsberg anymore lol

me, an actual actual intellectual: Královec

Me, a philistine: A circle jerk.

@Don't question my comment Only Poles and Lithuanians now about Królewiec/Karaliaučiaus. The rest of smart people in the world knows it as "Königsberg". Sorry, my Polish and Lithuanian friends.

Named after Michael Kalnin which signed the order of killing over 21k polish officers in the 40s. I despise this goddamn name.

@Gobrech i mean, you can raze cities which technically counts as ethnic cleansing if you think abt it There was this one game a civ settled in a place I claimed so the turn it became a free city, I took it, razed it, and then brought a settler to settle in that same exact place so it wouldn’t be questioned that the land was mine XD

​@@GobrechEvery Stellaris, Victoria and HOI4 players 👀

@@Gobrech that ship sailed the ethnic German natives have been driven out or murdered long ago...

A thing I noticed while look at on some maps, during the German empire days, what looks like bridges connect to east Prussia/Kaliningrad and they got in half while they permanently lost it

It's how, not why

@@khamphaTG Crippling warm water port addiction.

Try, "Won war".

Lol, google "what did third reich do to slavs"

@@fertfert4661 google how many slavs fought for the Third Reich, even against their own governments... we're talking millions...

That was some remarkable foresight.

@@european-one i wish it was that easy for things like Crimea but the difference would be that Lithuania never had a claim for Konigsberg in recent modern history, while Crimia is a solid claim by Ukraine

When the USSR collapses, and you have a choice to annex territory with an ice free port from Russia and some ethnic Russians living there, DON'T! Lithuania, Poland and Germany all choose wisely. Unfortunately for Ukraine...they didn't.

J R Ukraine was given the Crimea back in 1954 so it was already going to get yeeted in the future.

@@robloxgaara22 Nah, it's not a case of "ethnic homogeneity good". It's more a case of "it's better not to have a territory inhabited by the ethnicity of your bigger and more powerful neighbor that is known for its agressive foreign policy". If it had been inhabited by literally any other ethnicity, they'd all be fighting to get it.

Normie.

Crimea

@@BobuxGuy Crimea can't really be used as a good port because everything would have to go through Turkey to get to the Mediterranean sea

@@sammybeaver9130 military ships can pass trough Instambul, it aint 1939 anymore

@@BobuxGuy true

RIP Prussia. It’s so sad that it was dissolved 😭

What does Prussia even mean? Productive Russia?

that does not make any sense, Preußen is not simmilar to Russland. Пруссия is not that simmilar to Россия.

@@thelastprussian6491 well, Пруссия is similar to Россия tbh

@@matvejkap its close but not that close

@@daarksideyt so yea, germany is like the nerd kid who get bullied by other kids during school but become rich and famous when adult

@@swolzer Economy is literally something they deserved.

The United Kingdom and Russia have lost more land over the past hundred years

@@swolzer But they do. Just like their economy. A good economy does not exactly form out of thin air, so it is very much deserved.

@@swolzer why are you saying this? your sharing free hate for a nation who deserved it's economy. the germans can looks like cold people but after tha you stay a bit with them they can be the most sweet persons around the world. and during WW2 the people didn't know about what their government was doing agaisnt jews and slavic people

Virtual world addict.

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That is the weirdest take on Kaliningrad I've ever heard

@wlodek bąk Sadly your words are true. That´s why many young good educated people leave the country. I am not exception.

@@jpk190988 Please, can you tell where most of your people going? Just interested what country preferred more from your perspective

@@alexanderbell4976 I think most Germans go to Switzerland and Austria. But there are also many that go to Hungary and the US. I live in China now.

@@jpk190988 Thank you! Still valid subject for me. Hope you are doing well during these difficult times🙏

@@jpk190988 how do you get access to RU-vid meanwhile China bans yt?

Or just Prussia. What the Germans called West Prussia had nothing to do with the Baltic Prussians in the first place - it was either East Pommerania or Pomerellia, but after Teutonic takeover, and especially due to propaganda by the later Prussian kingdom, the area was referred to as West Prussia. So from native Prussian perspective it's weird to call the region "East" Prussia, when it was JUST Prussia - Prūsa in their native language.

@@Vitalis94 Prūsa? Waht do you mean with Prūsa?

@@moinulf4503 Exactly what I've said... Prussians called their region Prūsa.

@@Vitalis94 nah I think Preußen

@@moinulf4503 I ment the Baltic Prussians.

well yes exactly

That's the version of history I read as well. St Petersburg can freeze up in winter, leaving only Kaliningrad as their only open winter-long sea port.

Okay guys look, i live here and i know what i talking about). Its really can be looks like Kaliningrad can be very good trading port on the baltic for Russia... but actually... NO=) The problem is poor relations of the Baltic countries with Russia and expensive duties, what makes transportation goods to the center of Russia inefficient. But for fleet, that placed here, in the Baltiysk(Pillau) its a really good place.

@@komrade5361 yeah I realise it's not the best economically, and the port gives Russia a lot of control over the baltic if a war happened

@@jakubwolski2277 Yeah, really think so? For all time russian "baltic" fleet was a bauble. It was created to fight with sweds, and since 18's times its used not too offen. It takes part of fighting in WW1, but nothing serious. In WW2 its stay in St.Petersburg and using like defence artillery cause germans mined all o the sea. Every time its actualy used for defence or support black seas fleets, or british... OR PACIFIC in japanese war. Danmark block free way to ocean and in modern war this fleet are not too handle...

Russia still sees all of the former eastern block states as a lost territory.

@@samuela-aegisdottir in fact, the way it is, the states - Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia appeared only after the collapse of the Russian empire.

Prior to the Russian empire conquering the Baltics they were other nations or principalities. In fact, they maintained their linguistic and cultural independence even under the Russian rule. That’s like saying that because India only formed as a United nation after British colonial rule that it’s really just a lost British territory.

This comment aged sharply.

@@samuela-aegisdottir Yeah but Lithuania has the smallest russian population of the Baltics so with Kaliningrad we would be in big trouble…

Best comment 😂

Underrated

Exactly. Chess is Russia’s game. I applaud.

But knowing that Russians know everyone else knows they are experts at chess and would suspect its a trap and refuse the gambit, so maybe thats what the Russians wanted them to think that they really had something up their sleeve when they really had nothing, so they held onto Kaliningrad. 🤔 Russians can be crafty if they can manage to stay off the volka.

How does the sacrifice of the queen work? I'm not a grossmeister but isn't the game lost when you lose your queen? Or it's not just plain sacrifice but a bait to set it up?

Yeah but they depend on Lithuania and/or Poland/Belarus to get access to it from their mainland.

@@carultch What about sea access?

@@Vitalis94 They have sea access to Kaliningrad, except when the port of Sankt Peterburg freezes solid.

@@Vitalis94 for sea access you would need an ice free port and if they would have one then why should they care about Kaliningrad?

@@SchwertKruemel But Kaliningrad IS a ice free port, nearby Baltyisk even more so.

it had a very symbolic value to USSR. It was the center of German militarism - the Original Prussia. Capturing it signified the end of that chapter of German history, which eventually led to the rise of Hitler and WW2. The core of German Wehrmacht were Prussian officers.

Ill bet they're like: Come on! why cant we be part of another country? WAIT WHAT? OTHER COUNTRIES DENIED US??? WHY!!!!!!!!!

@@mrfryingpanowo1100 потому что мы слишком мелкие для более-менее приличной автономии. Получилось бы очень сомнительное государство

@@urmipie erm... that cant've been good

@@mrfryingpanowo1100 nope mate.

Fuck Kaliningrad, all my homies are from Königsberg

@Jhae 3 in Kaliningrad?

@Jhae 3 that's awesome hear, Kaliningrad is pretty unique. I've always felt like it's too small, though. Haha St Petersburg, on the other hand is richer in culture, in my opinion.

@@anyak885 hey Anya, Do russian recognise past of konig?

@@LukasSRR yeah, we are taught in school about its history and there are many museums you can visit to learn about it if you want.

@@anyak885 maybe one day when there wont be so strict border control

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Жизяка,ток я с Немана👍🏻

Дык это не твой город, а немецкий. Вы там эмигранты по факту)))

@@msitelrd6102 только почти все коренные немцы ушли))

@@gorgon0531, ушли? Просто так взяли и ушли?)))

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My grandfather a s axon married to a Prussian said. Bleibe Im land. Und nahre dich redlich. Stay in your country. And earn your food honestly....he went through 2 wars....i miss my opa. And oma

I have been living in Kaliningrad for many years, ask questions)

@@GermancreatorA Do historical buildings from the Teutonic Knights and the Prussians still exists?

@Tonya Lover That’s political history. It doesn’t have much effect on the people actually living in an area

It comes from the word king, right?

This Not juste so in Russian!.. Калининград / Kaliningrad = only in efemery Sovietic ; in Russian = Кенигсберг/ Koenigsberg ; in Russian Gréât Poetry [Иосиф Бродский / Joseph Brodsky], after 1945 = «В городе К.» / Poem «In city K.»

@@user-no4di9ro7c not russian one but the others yes

@@piotr4048 yes, I know. Russian is my native language. I just know a little bit of German and Polish word sounded a lot like Russian word for king. So I just wanted to make it sure. Thanks:)

Wow polish is hard to work out! Hope if i get lost looking for kaliningrad i dont ask a pole for directions! .

Yep, and it was the Polish that brought germans too prussia too

@@majk5995 Teutons. But they broke the agreements cause Poland was divided like HRE and weak

@@filipkopec525 Teutons were from germany, so Germans does work

@@majk5995 the Germans were arriving as civilians before the Teutons

@@filipkopec525 that place was a home to Prussians, not germans, not poles. One Polish prince invited teutonic order to get rid of prussians and they did just that, it was basically a medieval holocaust.

That's fortunate for you because the next one is on the Yugoslavian Partisans.

@@HistoryMatters thank you

@@HistoryMatters Sweet

Be ready for a heated comment section then.

@@brandonlyon730 I can just hear it.

Nice

meatBALL, methinks... Meatloaf is, well, a "loaf" made of meat and "other stuff" (herbs, oatmeal, bread/ roll crumbs,, and such. Klopsen are small balls - Auntie Wiki says "Königsberger Klopse, also known as Soßklopse, are a German specialty of meatballs in a creamy white sauce with capers". And who am I to question her knowledge and undermine her authority, ja? ;-)

Pretty debatable, if that's yummie. Just the thought of minced fish makes my stomach turn.

@@mikelytou "No like, no eat", as they say... ;-) But hey, lutefisk is NOT minced, maybe you should try this? Or "pickled herrings" (Surströmming), another Scandinavian "specialite de la maison"? Bon appétit! ;-)

@@MrKotBonifacy *blargh XD

And switzerland with Austria make Polish flag

Deutschland über alles

Sounds like rightful german clay to me lmao

HOLY SHIT

And Belarus makes the flag of Saudi Arabia

Yeah , but saying we Germans didn't want it back is incorrect. There was a very big movement to reclaim it but the chancellor refused and lost the next election

I don’t believe in Russia massive army anymore, peasants with ak, but yeah Kaliningrad is heavy militarised with a lot of strongpoints. Question is if they would fight for this shitty life quality which Putin deliver to them?

Well, actually, they offered it to Lithuania in 1954, When Khruschew was gaining favor in the Soviet republics, like the same year he gifted Crimea to Ukraine, on top of the Donbas, Kherson and Odesa they already got from Russia, but the Presidium of the Lithuanian SSR declined, since, then, they would have a lot of Russians (maybe 1/3 or 1/2) on their territory. And they could vote and stuff so it was not worth it. The second time, Russia offered it back to Germany, when they were reunifying, but the Germans never even answered. They didn't even consider it seriously... They say that they were too busy with reunification back then... Check it up

Если Польша будет много болтать ...мы придём из Кёнигсберга отбирать Восточную Прусию

@@beyondrecall9446 Печально, что глупость одного человека заложила бомбу замедленного действия, которая разорвалась, не без помощи США конечно, много лет спустя. Я думаю потерю Калининграда в 1991 в Рф никто бы особо не переживал, а вот потеря Крыма с Новороссией это было больно. Кстати тогда Украина первая оккупировала русские земли. Так как в 1954 году передавали только Крым, а город-герой Севастополь оставался в составе РСФСР. В 1991 году Россия была предана собственным руководством и почти уничтожена, поэтому пришлось смириться с этой оккупацией. Но сейчас бумеранг вернулся отправителю...

they are called Kazah germans nowdays. Since during WW2 they were sent from central Russian to Kazahstan. But you are right. There are some. But also Kaliningrad is kind of transit city for them. They come here to handle papers for getting to germany and prepare to the move.

@Amon Ra Koenigsberg is also fine. Same pronunciation

@Amon Ra there's not much left of that old Königsberg, it's been a different city for decades. Renaming it doesn't make any sense now. And it would be costly, in the first place.

@Daniel Eyre You dont know what you talking about. Many wolgagermans got citizinship of federal german republic from helmut kohl. Furthermore the ethnicity dont change just because an minority group lives in a foreign land.

Sam Rodrigues Most the Volga German's ended up in Gulags, Kazakhstan or with a bullet in their head.. Russia 101

I am from Kaliningrad. We smuggling a lot from Polland.

I wonder if "hot potato" is a euphemism for a live grenade. It would explain the game a lot better. I mean you can eat hot potatoes. Heck, I prefer them over cold ones.

That's very good 👍🇷🇺🇷🇺

*Królewiec

@@polishavokadomapping414 Przez jakis czas. Wczesniej Koenigsberg, jeszcze wczesniej Conigsberg, a jeszcze wczesniej Twangste.

the only guy who likes pineapple migrated all his pineapple on to the slice first, then acts surprised when nobody else wants the slice with pineapple

Your Boy Mr Mac What's wrong with pineapple? You racist against pinapple or something?

Very funny..lol

@@abren5974 pineapple pizza is an abomination

I feel personally insulted

kid moment

At least the russians offered it. The polish never offered us to give us back east-germany.

@@Ratselmeister why we should give you back or offered your previous lands? Who the fuck start the World War II? Blame yourself and your shame country for start it! That’s the compensation for this what you’ve done! It’s not even enough, your nazi country should pay us a lot of reparations for destroying our buildings and houses! How dare you even ask for that!

Show the facts where Russia offered Kaliningrad to Nazis(Germany pretty much the same) in 1990 🤣 can’t stop laughing 🤭🤣🤭🤣🤭🤣 Nice joke buddy🤣🤦🏻‍♂️

@@Vintage8411 There were no Nazis in 1990 in Germany. Cancelor was Helmut Kohl.

@@Ratselmeister mate... you don't get my conclusion 🤣 For us you always gonna be nazis no matter what year we are in! You only change the name but you always gonna be German Nazis for us. You don't have to teach me history because I know exactly what was in 1990. You just don't get my sarcasm 🤣

XD!!!!

it's literally a country

I mean it is they won it in a war with Spain when they wished to invaded

Gibraltar is in a weird situation where we kind of agree that it should be returned but the population actually living there has to agree as well, which they will never do because voting to pay more taxes will never happen.

@@arandombard1197 Gibraltar has been a part of the UK since 1713, 63 years prior to American independence. Scotland at that time was only recently added to the UK, 6 years before. Why on earth you think there's a legitimate reason to return the territory to Spain a full 307 years later, I've no clue.

@@jamesmccomb9525 There in a principle known as territorial integrity. The UK as a sovereign power owning Gibraltar damages the territorial integrity of Spain. It's also the product of a time when land was governed by those who could conquer it, rather than by the people living there. Again, I'm not saying it should be handed over as the people living there don't want that to happen. But instead, I'm just acknowledging that the land is part of the Iberian Peninsula, not the British Isles.

@@arandombard1197 Territorial integrity? I'm sorry but... What? Should the Spanish towns across Morocco be ceded to Morocco, konigsberg to Germany, North Ireland to Republic of Ireland, so on so forth? You seem to be in favour of removing border gore or inconveniences but I'm sorry, the world isn't that simple.

only in your dreams

@@artempluzhnikov7325 cope

@@pisaks6782 Cope with what?

That always has sounded like the most loopholiest workaround ever for being a king

Ah feudalism always so complicated

You are very correct - and the ruling family of the Hohenzollern dynasty has its roots in an area from around the town of Hechingen, Baden-Württemberg, about as far away from the area that you can get in the opposite direction and still be in German lands. The original Hohenzollern castle near this town, from where the family took its name, I think is still owned by someone in the family. So where this fellow came up with the idea that ruling family came from Kaliningrad/Königsberg is something I can't explain. Totally against what I understand to be true. Also, it is likely that my distant ancestor, an officer in the Prussian Army, was somehow connected to this family out of some duty to the family - so I am very aware of the history of the Hohenzollerns. This distant ancestor was born not far from Hechingen, but served and died in or near Königsberg. This was all very odd until I figured out the probable connection to this royal family. How and why did a Swabian born peasant join the Prussian military, and die in or near Polish lands. Incidentally, he had a stop in Ansbach, another part of the ruling family's domain. So when I ran across the Hohenzollern history, it made sense.

Small correction: It was King in Prussia bc they did not own all of it from the start. They only had East Prussia while West Prussia belonged to Poland. They became kings of Prussia when they took those lands. Also fun fact: Hohenzollern Castle is in south Germany (would have to look up though if the house is from there)

What about Bismarck? Germany's greatest chancellor. Pretty sure he was born in the east.

@Luuk R. but the ruling class sets its spirit. It's like saying that Indian isn't indian on behalf of the majority of dravidians and muzzis living there

Remember when prussia was old prussian? Mantas herkus remembers

Remember when germans tricked poles into giving them prussia?

Bismark always had a plan

@@Aggie1295 Bismarck a l w a y s has a plan

if Russia ever gets into another war with Europe, i see Russia's borders shifting east, Belarus's borders shifting east, Poland's borders shifting east, and Germany returning to what it was pre-WWI.

@RadTheLad but in that scenario, Germany and Poland would be on the same side. that's why I said they would all shift east.

@@jwil4286 if Russia ever gets into another war with Europe than Europe becomes radiocative desert.

@@ugandanwarrior5657 Russia becomes a radioactive desert too, and China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Japan, and America will all move to make claims in Siberia

​@@jwil4286 nice

Not sad at all because. Last time Russia conquered it was middle of 18th century

Worth noting that Prussia proper, including Königsberg, was always exotic to most Germans, as it was outside of the Holy Roman Empire and the ceremonial Kingdom of Germany. It was only settled by Germans during the late Crusades. Berlin was the seat of the Prussian kingdom when it came to unite Germany.

What people know as "Prussia" is mostly the margraviate of Brandenburg with its Capital Berlin. They inherited the duchy of Prussia (called a Polish "puppet state" in the video, actually a vassal) at some point and when that was converted into a kingdom later on, the margraves of Brandenburg had the chance to call themselves "King in Prussia" instead. An as kings are way more prestigeous than margraves, they just did that. "Prussia" as in the lands around Königsberg aren't the heart of Germany and the dynasty ruling "Prussia" as well as the German Empire later on wasn't Prussian either, they were Swabian.

To be fair - who knows what comes next?..

Prussia wasn't German to begin with; originally it was a Baltic culture similar to Lithuania, but was colonised by Germans in the Medieval Period.

Modern Germany constitutionally cannot acquire any more land without Britain and France saying its okay.

@@Jotari good to know

@@Jotari Poland: (chuckles) I'm in danger.

@@Jotari Germany has never been independent ever since world war 2

@@twrk139 Depends on what you mean independent. All recognized nations have international agreements and stipulations with other countries, granted most international contracts don't cover things as strict as their ability to acquire new land.

it goes further back though!

It's not a tale the Communists would tell you

@@aaronmarks9366 wow i appreciate the affort you make trying to disgrade communist in any way possible. Germany lost it during a war they STARTED. So why wouldn't the communist "tell you about that"?

@@mikeock7919 Dude, it's a Star Wars meme

all hail gaben First, improve your English.

@@aaronmarks9366 oh now thats... shit for me

Lithuania doesn't have any gas reserves or pipelines. There's no point for the Russian government to invade, thankfully.

NYC's Brighton Beach is sweating heavily

What? The Russians can't travel in Europe?

@@CalvinNoire they can travel to Europe, obviously. Its just cheaper to travel within Russia. Crossing the border often times causes extra expenses.

"In Russia" 🤣

"Most European looking city" is as funny sounding as saying Russia is not Europe.

@@doctorno1006 ok, ok. Let me rephrase - "most western/central-European looking city'

Glad she has survived. My grand-grandfather was a surgeon in the army hospital in the events of the Battle of Kaliningrad

My Grandmother was among russians who had fllee western Ruassia at the beginning of Nazi invasion with my mom (newborn). Without that your Granmother can stay in Konigsberg until the end of her days

My grandmother lived at about 100 miles from Moscow. German Nazis bombed and destroyed her house, killed her husband, and tried to burn her child alive. The child was saved because Germans had to leave, as the Soviet army was advancing. Stop fuck..g pretend to be a victim. Your Germans were fascist monsters in WW2. Clearly, nothing has changed as you dismiss your devilish nation's crimes.

@@ik7584 true, The Soviet Union had every right to destroy Germany as a country and all its people for what they had done on their land

@@kakasy5335 Oh c'mon expecting what exactly Soviet Union made a deal with a wolf invading Poland a couple of days after Germany not even declaring war sending very simple minded soldiers from far far east commanded by proper Russian officers so they wast the land commit unspoken atrocities and nowadays both the aggressors try to show up as victims. Just to be clear I'm not talking about common people who regardless of side and nation always suffer most through mindless decisions of their governments who see them mainly as tax numbers. Wars bring the worse in people, some get mad some turn psychotic when their minds can't bear with what they've seen some will sell their best friends to survive others to thrive some will even find pleasure in hurting other. There are so many differences. Yet if not for government decisions we speak, we lough, we trade, we have fun together even merry. Think about it when blaming whole nation you should be really thinking of their governments and the propaganda they enforce at their citizens through so called ''News"

They did. Partially))))

Well the family who ruled Prussia "Hohenzollern" are still alive

@@larsviktorfreirewakenhut6930 And then you have to factor in that you could even argue that the you would have to wait until all of the german dynasties would die out

@@larsviktorfreirewakenhut6930 it was not the dynasty but "the line" in the origina ltreaty. But the polish politicians did fuck up... again

The signing parties were the Commonwealth and Prussia. Both entities are no more

@@leonardodavid2842 they dont care look at all the poles fighting in the comments

Leonardo David 28 you right , so the short version of the answer is: Kaliningrad is Russian because Russians are ready to dye for this land . If someone think , That he has more rights to own this land , no problem. Come and claim .

@@BoboTheSunniestPalDog so Gibraltar was British and rightfully so?

last name first name de facto its British . What does it mean “ someone have right to ... “ , it means that there is a way , that someone have ability to inforce his will on others . Or directly - the rule of the strongest , or not directly through social agreement and common lows. If u dig deeper , then someone can ask , how can anyone have right to own something, that was not created by him. Spain got these lands as a result of recanquista . If some group of people will prove , that they successors ( inheritors ) of moors , do they have right to this land ?

@@leonardodavid2842 It does matter because every story has the beginning. And history of this land did not start with crusaders conquests.