Why Does Russia Own This Old Piece of Germany?

South America not less Russia: 17.8 mKm2
Russia: 17.1

You not check why polar parts of the map is more big than in reality

Crimea is part of Ukraine,so your map is wrong

You're a big NATO fan I see, smh....

i drowning in water

Why did you include Crimea as a part of Russia?

Let’s see before you mention it. Russian gets a warm water port and a huge military base. It also gets to keep an eye on the Baltic’s plus like poking a finger in someones eye they get to be a thorn in the side of their much unloved neighbor Poland

Why ?
Because he stole it!

it's not Germany ))) it's Prussia . You are fake historian )))

Crimea is not a part of rusia!

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Crimea isnt Russia!
And soon or later, even Russia will not be like that too.
Siberia will be Siberia!!

You omitted atrocities ussr did in east Prussia. Solzhenitsyn wrote about it in his letters and was sentenced to gulag for that

Thatcher was simply a bad politician!

I`m sorry to describe a few aspects - one aspect is e.g. the nazi-government didn`t allow the citizens of East Prussia to flew until the soviets started their offensive - it was much to late for the citizens - furthermore the allies installed an administration after the so called 2nd WW in the eastern part of Germany which was called German Roce (also in the former parts of east prussia). There are further misleading parts in this short film - the dominate historiography is the historiography of the rulers - greetings

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u'll never hear germans wanting to conquer that area. Russians on the other side.... think they can do that anywhere theres russians

I thought it was proven it belongs to belarus not Russia

You absolutely did not mention that many beautiful modern European Russian buildings were built in Kaliningrad a long time ago, matching the style of the old historical ones. You tell only what is beneficial to you

While talking about Kaliningrad, show an old drawing of Riga. Seriously? Did you even take a look at what you pasted there? Or was it just: ah, looks oldy enough, let's stuff time with this. It's even written there twice!

Königsberg mit Ostpreußen wird nur von Rußland verwaltet. Es gehört immer noch zu Preußen 🖤🤍🖤 bzw. zum Deutschen Reich. 🖤🤍❤️

Germany/Poland/Lithuania should definitely take that land back, asap. Königsberg forever.

случись только один выпад в сторону Калиниграда и прибалтика ствновится Россией, запомните этот твит

Prussia is a russian colony. Many countries capture colonies. For example Germany colony was Togo (in Africa)

The historical Mistreatment of the German people does NOT go unnoticed. This will change one day.

Why does the West always think that someone has captured someone??? the fact that peoples voluntarily wanted to join is not even considered, maybe because it was Western countries that captured and enslaved other peoples for centuries? made colonies and plundered resources? so other options are simply not considered...

Хотели сохранить город, нех@р было нападать на ссср. Даже если бы хотели сохранить (исторический) вид города было 2 проблемы:
1) город был разбомблен Великобританией, по большей части либо ничего уже не осталось или было разрушено до степени когда уже ничего восстановить нельзя было.
2) деньги, просто деньги, серьезно это не кто не учитывает? Бл@ страна умирала, людям жить было не где, естественно что строили не "исторически красивый город" А обычный русский город. Тем более что потом пытались придать ему более менее прусский вид, хотя немцы были депортированы из калининграда уже давно.

Woah lol i live in latvia

I'm living in Kaliningrad Oblast. Questions?

Crimea? Seriously?

Oh by the way, the Kaliningrad Oblast wasn't surrounded by the EU when it was created at the time the USSR fell... When the Soviet Union dissolved it was agreed in the treaty, the EU would not move 1 inch closer towards Russia. How did that turn out for Ukraine?

Title is incorrect. This area was under Druid control until Poland asked the Teutonic Knights, recently expelled from the Ukraine area, to kill the Druids or convert them. Once they had done away with the Druids, they claimed it was theirs and challenged Poland. Germany had only recently gained control. Kind of like a shoplifter claiming they had the item the whole time and getting away with it.

I don’t understand why such photos should be used when comparing German Koenigsberg and Russian Kaliningrad.
These photos were taken ~ in the 90s - an extremely difficult and poor time.

Why not show how the city and places from photographs look now?
The city was restored for many years and even preserved German architecture in many places

Its a piece of Russia

ahhh margret thatcher. one of the worst things to happen to humanity in living memory.

Interesting! But the real question is why does Germany own old pieces of slavic lands like Pomerania.. )

In victorian times...kaliningrad was prussia which is half german half polish and half lithuanian ppls been living...soviet union changed it

I’m from Kaliningrad and nobody care about it. Because all design comes from us.

When I was a kid, I don’t think Kaliningrad belongs to Russia, I think it is one of the smallest countries in eastern Europe. But after I didn’t found a bold name of country on that land, then I found it belongs to Russia.

There is an error in your map. Crimea peninsula is not Russian, it is Ukrainian.

Well , Kaliningrad was Prussian in the past , now it’s Russian, not a big difference , one letter only

I used to live there. Just keep your hands off.

Crimea is Ukraine

since when is Crimea Russian territory

Why is Hawai american ?

Nerdy mfs before you said as the crow flies: '🤓☝️"Actualllllly"'

I'm Russian and when I heard that average wage in Russia is 1500$ a month I was like, excuse me? I would go back if that was true. The real average is exactly like in Kaliningrad which is around 400$ a month.

Fun fact Russia and Pluto have roughly the same surface area

I live in Kaliningrad.
People here are getting more or less the same payment as in "big" Russia, and it is more than 400$\month. And there is no such thing as an average 1500$/month in other parts of Russia, maybe except for the Moscow.
But don't mistake that for the level of life. Lot's of things are chipper in Russia.

And it's interesting how you spent half of time of this video to explore war aspects. When Russia doesn't threaten NATO countries.

And nobody was trying to give Kaliningrad away in 90s.