Kaliningrad: Putin's Exclave I ARTE.tv Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 23 июн 2022
- The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad sits between Lithuania and Poland. Once German East Prussia, it is now home to 1 million Russian citizens. What is life like in this small territory now practically cut off from its EU neighbours since the war in Ukraine began?
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Por qué tan envidiosos ? La grandeza de Rusia provoca envidia a los países sin recursos 🤔.
Por eso quieren apropiarse de su gas,de su fertilizante , su petróleo y minerales?? Europa saqueadora
YOU TRADE LIES BRICS DESTROYED AMERICAN ECONOMY THIS WHY AMERICAN DOLLAR SUFFER RUSSIA IS PART OFF BRICS NASIONS
Kaliningrad/Konigsburger is German and should return to Germany , Russians should stop their imperialism and start focusing their energy on modernizing their vast country rather than stealing more territories from neighboring countries.....
The Russians dont close their nation. They intensified cooperation with china, india and many parts of africa. Poor western propaganda Arte. Ukraine is suffering for this narrative.
why don't you talk about the "digital ruble".. "they" had to be kicked off swift so they can use.. FEDnow is america's... "one world currency, cashless, track everything".. D- score
7:36 for this Soviet man in his 60s Lithuania might not be Europe, but for me a young Lithuanian it is definitely Europe and that is the difference between them and us, time goes on and things change no mater how hard you try to cling to the past, accept the new reality and move on.
The audacity of Russians never fails😒
Be safe Lithuania 🇱🇹❤️
He’s just brainwashed. Lithuania will and always has been Europe.
United we stand against the Russian aggression, Lithuania has accomplished a lot like Ukraine after the independence, oligarchy in Russia stuffs their pockets and Russian people don’t seem to understand that they been rapped by its dictator.
1.35 tell me your an idiot without saying your an idiot.
Lithuania is our european brothers and I'm happy my nation of Sweden is about to join NATO so we can help secure your independence and freedom ❤️
"Poland still wants to get Kaliningrad back" wow these people really are brainwashed
no terrorussia - no problems for neighbors!
Of course they are brainwashed. Poland wants all eastern poland before ww2 and according to prometheus plan to divide russia , exploit it and rule over ancient lithuanian polish commonwealth. Exactly what nazis wanted in ww2.
Brainwashing is mixing everything with politics just to tout how moral an institution is. Where's the morality in banning art, sports, etc. of people who didn't chose to start a war?
@@danmihaiescu3114 evidences, please!
Looks like a shit hole like most of Russia. Why would Poland want it.
"The house of Soviets - still unfinished since the 1980s."
Doesn't get more Russian than that.
What a shithole of a place. Keep them isolated they really dont add anything to the world. They are happy to live in past leave them there...
The most fascinating part is that it’s getting demolished now, would not be there this winter already and honestly I’m not sure if I’m happy or sad about it
@@villidar6010 Tearing down the old and ugly, and building something new and hopefully better in its place?
Honestly, that sounds like exactly the thing Russia needs right now.
0:59 “It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.” ~ Mark Twain
Ukrainiacs.
And the Baltards
@@ieronymos9265 Poooooootinista idiots.
how much for a property there? 😅
Yes, absolutelly ...
In such case here 0:59 nobody was fooled ..
Furthermore the population of Eastern Prussia and even most of Germany today was Slavic but the border moved eastwards all the way to Kaliningrad
Weapons displayed outside in public places better maintained than the buildings surrounding says alot about a nation.
And none of it good...
it's a forgotten land.
Absolutely. Fortunately/Unfortunately for those who took the effort to understand war, money & nature from works like Sun Wu's Art of War, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations & Carl Sagan's Vision of Humanity, s/he/they will realise there exist many who will seek profits/opportunities from this crisis. This may explain why many elites/experts from states like US, China, EU, India, UK, Russia, AU, Brazil, etc. groups like IMF, WHO, UNP, RSF, ICC, WFP, TSB, POG, etc. & firms like Apple, Tencent, Samsung, Nestle, Loreal, Tata, Sony, Siemens, etc. are already making their moves in the cyber/shadow space.
@Ian Sacks That's a very interesting observation.
@Ian Sacks Spot on. But at least in the US you can still say you are against the war, and you can move and get a better job, right?
Poland wants Kaliningrad 🤔 Don't think so :) Even Lithuania rejected Kaliningrad when they got the offer back in Soviet times.
Same with Germany .
You are right better stay away dont make trouble with russ.
Lithuania smart doesnt want kaliningrad later after given .. they will take back later like crimea .. even if you dont support or against them the consequences could happen like ukraine .
Lithuania didn't really have an offer in Soviet times.
@комиссар полиции обвиняет It's Wroclaw and Gdansk.
Only a madman would accept that territory with all those Russian settlers.
What a strange place. It looks like a city from 1940 that was mysteriously abandoned, with no maintenance or progress since.
My daughter has just travelled there, her impression is totally opposite. She says that the city is far cleaner than many european capitals, invadad by immigrants, such as Paris, for example
@@user-jz2mo1em9r The city may look good in comparison to other Russian cities that are massive shitholes, but in comparison to western cities, Kaliningrad looks just really bad.
@@user-jz2mo1em9rcleanliness doesn’t mean anything when the roads & buildings are all decrepit & when the population is dirt poor w/ 0 industry or economic opportunity for the people
agreed, but it's not about Russia, it's first and foremost about the USA
@@user-jz2mo1em9rthat is truly wild logic
This place was so rich and beautiful in the past but these days nobody would want it even for free, just sad really.
The people make a place, Soviet Russian squatters build nothing, think nothing and are about nothing.
I'll still love to be there.
@@monipenny408 Sure, because of US intervention the once booming German city of Königsberg was given to the Soviets, who then ruined the place. Purely America's fault. You gotta love Russian bots.
@@Skyfighter94 Last I check rules of military engagements, loser don't get to decide and if memory serve Nazi Germinay lost in WW2.
However, now that US has become a rising Nazi Power, Germany under the leadership of the 4th Reich USA might stand a chance to retake Kaliningrad.
Problem is you and I might not live long enough to see it. Good Luck American.
@@monipenny408 Does your brain hurt when you write such crap?
First, I am not American.
Second, I find it hilariously funny how propaganda always contradicts itself. Sometimes according to propaganda America is really weak, and sometime it is the rising power. What is it? The rising power or really weak?
Now to Kaliningrad: Germany does not want that city back in a million years. Germany is not an imperial power anymore. IT does not invade other territories, like Russia does. There is absolutely nothing to gain for Germany, beside a corrupt and run-down Russian city, that would need billions over billions to turn it into a somewhat functional place. Not interested at all.
Can I just say, the naming of Konigsburger is an absolute stroke of genius.
I know, right?
König's Burger
Kingston on the East Sea
except it has not been koningburg for about 75 years...kaliningradburger ?????
Foundet from a Bohemian King.
Krusty burger named after the vintage aircraft carrier
The root of the problem is that they see everyone as "Soviet", while their neighbours moved on with their lives and became independent democratic states. They find it offensive that "their soviet states" are no longer obedient, thus being racist to Russians. That's just not how the world works, princess 😂
You are really fooled brainwashed to believe you live in a democracy discrimination racism censorship is blatant , you are real clueless like the majority of dumb population 😷🤡
Not every slave chooses freedom!
@@Farfar887 You are very right on that point EU UK are Slaves to the US that's for sure .😷🤡
Became independent democracies with soldiers who wave Nazi flags. Hahaha 😂
They are still living in the old world! 😥
When the citizens can not speak freely against their own government, they are pretty much a prisoner in their own home.
Russian state media is the most critical of Vladimir and the Russian Goverment...
Same with Europe and what people say about Ukraine and their Nazi problem right???
It's not clear that freedom of speech flourishes here in the West.
Kaliningrad is 40 years behind. Before the ww2 Koningsberg was beautiful, developed historically rich place with educated people. After the war, When Stalin took over and made it part of the Soviet union this place started to deteriate. 70+ years later this place is a shell of it's former self. Stuck in the Soviet past, undeveloped, falling apart they destroyed everything that the west have built and created this weird mixture of German and ugly cold Soviet 'architecture' that's neither here nor there. People are just not going anywhere, gopniks and hilbilies that live in their little bubble despite being so close to the free world.
Filled with Orcs who think Butcha was staged. Such soviet rapists will be expelled. I hope European men can find courage to take back our beautiful city.
Russians think more ruined land to provide means more power. It's XIX centrury state of mind. They don't care they are poor but they love "they are afraid of us" sense of feeling.
@Higher Order Reasoning Joining EU it's a choice while being invaded by Russia is not.
@Higher Order Reasoning i thought youtube is banned in ruzzia
@Higher Order Reasoning Donbas belongs to Ukraine. So what are russians even doing there? They are doing mess. Something Russia is the best at. MESS. You russians simply do not understand democracy because you are anything but. Nobody forces Ukraine to turn its back on russia. Blame yourself in the first place. russia has nothng to offer to Ukraine exept for constant threat, crimes, robbery and poverty. Ukrainians are sick and tired of you guys.
"Russians never invaded anyone"-I spat out my tea 😂
Well , they learned from the BEST. Thanks to Temudin (Dingis Khan)...
Uncle Sam is jealous
Aprendieron de los mongoles o kazajos? Tal vez de Alejandro Magno 😂
Yeah, and the sky is red in Russia and 1+1=5 if Putin says so
Yeah it's like saying America has never been an aggressor ah!
‘Russia has never been the aggressor’ 😂🤣😂 Hilarious!!!
While he's wearing a hat that says "Russia"
😅
Yeah, talk about being delusional.
@Ian Sacks You’re just not getting it are you?
Typical brainwashed person
@Ian Sacks how many times do you want to show everyone how stupid you are?
Russians have never been the aggressor??? Ask Poland. Ask the Baltic Republics. Ask Finland. Ask Hungary. Ask Czechoslovakia. Ask Chechnya. Ask Georgia.
All, liberated from Nazis by USSR!
Poland, the Baltics and Finland were defensive acts since all countries were to either fall victim to Nazi Germany or become their allies. Czechoslovakia and Hungary must be seen in the context of the Cold War The US did the same in Vietnam and had plans for Italy in case the Communists win the elections. Chechnya was a Russian Republic and after the first war it became a lawless country without a working judcial system, healthcare, schools or police. Georgia started the war by bombarding South Ossetia.
And what about the US? Since independence they have fought over 200 wars with an estimated 5 to 6 million civilian deaths and is that normal?
Give us evidence of these claims and let us see you talking then) for every action, there's a reaction. The west can't keep bullying nations into submission and expect that nothing will happen.
@@robbypolter6689 We are not five year old children. Crying and saying someone else also did something bad is not an excuse or argument.
Kaliningrad is the prime example of what happens when russki mir enters a beautiful European City...
What do you mean?!
@@94SERP well one of the most beautiful European hanseatic cities with beautiful architecture was smashed to pieces (I mean it was war so that's ok) and rebuilt as a depression-inducing, burtalist, grey shithole. Kaliningrads "House of Soviets" is the prime example of the r*pe performed on this once stunning city.
In short: taking Paris and turning it into a hellscape like Norilsk. That's what I mean.
@@94SERP the isolation and poor lifestyle compared with Europe
Russian Petersburg is surely more elegant than ex-German Koningsberg aka Kaliningrad.
No, this is what happens when European parasitic sanctions enter the Russki Mir but Russia will succeed and live trough it like it always did in history.
Nobody serious in Poland and Lithuania would want Kaliningrad, because having russian minority in these countries would spark troubles, and ethnic expulsions have fallen out of fashion in civilized countries. On top of that this is underdeveloped backwater in dire need of investment. Just force Russia to demilitarize it and call it a day would be ideal. Or make it another baltic state.
Indeed
Yup
Putin will oblige you in your dreams!
No-one forces Russia to do anything.
Los polacos negaron el paso a estudiantes hindús eso es racismo 😡
Despreciar la cultura rusa es racismo 😡
Aliarse con la OTA n es. Muy degenerado
This feels like the calm before the storm
it is i have a funny feeling
USA 😡💲🤮. Europa occidental 😡💲🥶😂
Viva Putin 🤝 y Rusia ❤️🙏
@@Lorena-el3ou You're a Fascist, because you support Fascists.
@@Lorena-el3ou I was walking by a closed Zoo,the people there told me that you were the funniest monkee there
What we want is to keep whole Kaliningrad zone as "open-air-museum" of the Russian tyranny within EU territory.
Instead it's a Island of Liberty than the majority of Humanity supports. NATO tried to isolate Russia, all they managed to do was prove how isolated the West is from the rest of the world.
No problem "NUKES" will fix that!!!😂😂😂😂👍
we lol you are Polish, like you don't decide anything in the EU, other than banning your own women to get abortions
Keep dreaming 🤡
It never was eu territory. You need to abolish your shovinism.
I hope Oksana can leave, of course with a broken heart, but eventually to find peace and safety for her soul. It's shocking to see so many people wanting isolation over freedom.
Oxana is my mom, she now lives in Germany, everything is good with her!
Except they're not...they STILL move goods from Belarus into Kaliningrad, just not the sanctioned goods.
@комиссар полиции обвиняет Is schon gut mit der Ruzzianpropa...
Belarus is on Russia's "side" so to speak. They allowed the Russians to invade Ukraine from the North. They are culprits in this terrible war of invasion. Russia has to keep them fed (via Belarus) to keep them on Russia's side and keep them believing all the Russian propaganda.
@Blake Brown
If you never heard, Lithuania and the EU put sanctions on belarus as well.
@@dmitrikulkevicius9161 True, Kaliningrad is respected but Putin inflicts so much damage on relations with neighbors. I love Russian and I don’t consider Putin as a representative of Russia 🇷🇺
Here's to a total blockade of all of Russia and to much harsher sanctions being applied, all purchases of Russian fuels must be outlawed under International law! Russia can't beat Ukraine and sending poorly trained and poorly equipt conscript and contracted cannon fodder with obsolete Tanks and armour would lead to more senseless slaughter of the Russian soldiers, no way could Russia take on NATO Forces and win conventionally and if Pukin was to escalate to Nuclear Weapons to save from total defeat and utter humiliation the Russians would still lose due to mutually assured destruction! What's Russia going to do when it runs out of old obsolete Tanks? It can't build new because of sanctions, will it start dragging Tanks out of museums, LOL!!!! I can't wait to see how T34s and KV1s stand up to NLAWS and Javlin, LOL!!!! It's great to see the effects of what must be a Russian turret ejection system fitted to their TANKS in Ukraine, LOL!!!! I wonder if the valiant Ukrainians manage to blow a Russian Tank Turret into Orbit, LOL!!!! SLAVA UKRAINI!!!! GLORY TO THE HERO'S!!!! 😂😆😄😁🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🐓🙏💪👍👍👍👍👊✌️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦.
As a Polish person I can say that the last thing that Poland wants is to take over Kaliningrad. As you could see it is a really poor region and people who live there have post-Soviet, not pro-European mentality contrary to Polish people. They glorify violence, repressions and imperial politics of USSR. Polish people are completely different. We think that war brings suffering, violence and a lack of freedom we fought so hard for. Weapons are on display in WWII museums, not in the city centers. People in Kaliningrad don’t believe in democracy or innovation. They don’t understand what freedom of speech is and are scared to talk their mind in front of camera. Also, the majority of them speak Russian and are proud Russians. Poland doesn’t need a big Russian minority. We don’t have any and this is why Ukrianians can feel at home in our country. We would prefer the situation to stay this way. We don’t need more land and we are not occupiers. We never had any colonies and we haven’t occupied others nations forcibly. Obtaining Kaliningrad would hinder Polish economy, making us invest a lot of money to make this region liveable and having a decent level of living. Changing the mindset of people there would take generations. We are not like Soviets, who do things forcibly. We believe in democracy and free will. Of course it’s not a perfect situation that it belongs to Russia that is now an aggressor, an authoritarian regime and a fascist country which has a big military base full of Iskanders there but we don’t want it. Maybe Lithuania or Germany would like to take it over… I would hope so because Poles are not interested.
I hope the issue get resolved sometime, either they seperate from russia and or merge with one of the three countries just so we have the russian headache gone from our back garden.
Good luck western ego chump.
Don't you worry - nobody will ever let you have Kaliningrad, not a chance in hell. Or Lithuania or Germany either. Germany wisely doesn't even discuss the subject. "Weapons are on display in WWII museums, not in the city centers". - of course, because Poland lost. Your government ran away abandoning the army and the people. There is little to be proud of. "we are not occupiers. We never had any colonies and we haven’t occupied others nations forcibly". Yes, you did, occupy other nations, that is. Not every successfully and usually not for long but you did. May a give you just one example, the Poland's aggression again the Soviet Russia in 1919 that resulted in Polish occupation of the Western Ukraine and Belorussia. You don't know anything about your own history, do you?
Lithuania or Germany have no right to take over Kaliningrad, it is Russian territory.
@@jacleena Babe its Königsberg or Krolewiec learn ya historyyyy babeeeee
I love my country, it is so big, so moral. I can’t talk anymore about it or my country will put me in prison.
"as history shows we are not to be harrassed" she says when they are the ones harrassing ukraine!
I can see that some people will never change their ideas.... they live in the past!
Not the past. Some strange planet.
They just live in real World.
@@vasilykasatikov5729 that is not the real world
Living in past? Okay. Now look.
Your neighbors dog bites your two times. And then he tells you he's going to buy more dogs and also tells that you should not he worried at all.
Would you be worried because his dogs bite you in past or would you forget and change your thinking?
It's the same for Russians. They played the major role in saving the world, unlike US.
@@untitledmixture1531 this can't be used as an excuse to start a war in the country! All country's have their own external problems... this could have been sorted more diplomatic without destroying the country! This will have extremely bad consequences for the whole world! Now every country start spending a lot more in army & many more problems.... is this OK to happen because of few people ???? They could do better because that's why they are representing us and get the good life we will never do! Anyway... in 50 years time people will decide who if what they did was good or not because in 200 years no-one will remember putin or zelensky
If you use Putin’s logic then Germany can invade Kaliningrad because it was German before the soviets forced them out.
Not that logic. If there lived quantities of germans, they would one day leaned that their language was no longer official, they would go protesting and central government would sent tanks to handle them. And so on till Minsk-2 agreements and one side not following them keeping killing germans. That would be full story.
Arte does a great job on these documentaries. Tnx for sharing!
Thanks for watching! :)
LoL, somone explain the BIG sports dude that its offensive to Lithuanian people to say that they are not seen as European country but rather a part of USSR, remind him, that Lithuania was occupied by russian gopniks.
Nobody gives a shit .
Hes too far gone man, too much brain damage from watching russian tv
The same “gopniks” who gave you back Vilnius from Polish occupation? The same gopniks who gave you Klaipeda after the war? The same gopniks who grant you your stupid independence throw dubious means? Those “occupiers” you say?
@@ieronymos9265 to be more specific I am not Lithuanian, but Latvian. Those gopniks didn't give back anything to us, those gopniks took it for themselves, big difference and nobody asked those gopniks for help, they invited themselves, buddy.
Russia present time is like Germany in 1930's.
Hopefully it will become just like Germany in 1945! OCCUPY RUSSIA!
Just nowhere near as powerful as 1930s Germany.
Putin is a wannabe.
They were always a bit late
@@dkbrook9178 really do want to invade Rusia again? But remember what happened last time jajajajajajajajajajajajajaj
"russia has never been the aggressor" cant pay for that kind of comedy XDDDD
He is right.
@@lukasnummer1 sup Kremlin troll
@@doofwop
Why is everyone call a "troll" nowadays when he voices a different opinion? Or, in this case, a fact?
You jocking,yes?
@@lukasnummer1 LOL
These interviews say it all. Older Russians are living so so far from reality, and their attitude shows why it is so easy to twist there minds into believing that Russia is the good guy. And the west is the big bad aggressor.
But that WILL change because the younger generation have a good grasp on what really is going on. Slava Ukraine.
They are typical patriots of their country and a generation that mainly are used to think that 'the leadership knows the best' and do see any need to look loser at or question anything the leadership is up to. Naturally the state propaganda is quite efficient towards these large groups of citizens
Exactly, they have been brainwashed their entire life and I doubt they will ever be deprogrammed.
So russia invaded iraq, libya, syria, yugoslavia and yemen.
@@515coldfire If you're talking about the US and I'm sure you are you have no idea what you're talking about. Gaddafi was overthrown and killed by his own people, perhaps you've heard of the Arab spring, it was Russia that bombed the hell out of Syria and didn't care if it was in civilian territory, NATO went into Yugoslavia but only because the Serbs were committing war crimes and they successfully brought the war to an end, the US has never invaded Yemen, they have a small amount of military personnel conducting operations against ISIS but have not invaded them. As for Iraq the majority of Americans of all ages didn't and still don't support Bush's illegal invasion after they found no WMD.
Why do you hate so much that the people from the Dombass get penssions and have jobs.. their children going to school and playing parks?
The Indifference , ignorance of the people ,the corruption of the politicians have allowed the war to happen and continue ,
Traveled there few times in my life and still remember how poor this region is. As a child i was shocked that people can live like that
This shows that mf psycho nazi terrorist putin and maffioso kgb kremlin doesnt care about its own people in former Königsburgh but only hunger for geo political power....Russia is part of BRICS Group....a bunch of countries run by morons and dictators
Haven’t been to Latin America have you?
It still looks good, compared to a lot of slums in Asia, where millions live in squalor. For them, Kaliningrad is heaven.
@@J.M.254 I grew up in a Latin American ghetto, it’s close to if not the same as those Asian slums you speak of. I lived not far from where houses stop looking like houses. It’s absolutely nothing like what people call poverty anywhere in Europe.
Yes, its good compared to poor places globally but if you will compare as me, who comes from ex soviet union country Lithuania, you would be shocked how undeveloped and left this place is. I lived just 30 km away and for me the reality view what Russia gives fir her regions even up to this day and what independent country, running on its own, can have is massive. This could be beautiful, visited by many people place if they could be independent….
Sad. Kalingrad would be clearly better off part of either with Poland, Lithuania or Germany. It would take them 10-20 years to become part of the EU on their own
1:59 “The province was “”given”” to the Usssr in 1945 and the half a million german inhabitants expelled “. No, the region is East Prussia and was taken away from Germany as part of its punishment for losing the war
No. Russia had conquered the area, were positioned there, and when the area was divide, possession was 99% of the law.
@Assismus Konigsberg is German land. Explosion of Germans was genocide.
This is what false pride looks like.
When you cannot accept or admit fault or failure.
Clinging to past "glory" of others how pitiful.
espacially germany would have taken over russia with ease in ww2. USA pumped udssr with huge amount of supplies back in the days. Russians don't even talk about those supplies. Germany had a kd ratio of 3 to 1 in an offensive position. The war against ukraine just shows again, that they don't know how war actually works. In 6-12 month russia will fall apart and china will take the chance to claim back their teritory like back in 17th century. even if russia thinks china is their ally
It’s honestly pathetic and humiliating for Russia, supposedly a great power.
Russians love taking all WWII USSR glory but keep forgetting they were Hitler's ally till 1941 and attacked Poland on 17th of september 1939. Their memory is very selective.
@@Blanka1100m Poland was Hitler's ally until 1939, and it preyed on Czechoslovakia together with Hitler, taking Ostrova for itself. It is not easy to understand why Hitler attacked Poland rather than sticking to the original plan of attacking the URSS together with Poland and the West. Part of it is Stalin's offer to tacitly back Hitler. That offer did not make Stalin an ally of Hitler (as the Molotov visit showed in late 1940). Churchill and others recognized this immediately. Stalin already expressed the idea in his geometry speech of early 1939 "we will not get the chestnuts out of the fire on Britain"s behalf". In other words, "Dear Britain, you got Hitler into Czechoslovakia against our will, so now defend Poland on your own."
@@a2eoas learn history from books, not from propaganda xD
More monuments for the fallen coming up.
haha you right soon you can walk there every were monuments no room for roads
More monuments than housing soon hahah
Moved from Kaliningrad to Israel ~3 years ago and it’s so painful to see this situation in Russia and especially in Kaliningrad, that’s so crazy to see that there are so many people who really support military aggression of Russia towards Ukraine, idk how it’s even possible
"Many people" is what? The ones that ARTE showed you? They specifically chose the most stupid ones to form your opinion about the Russians as illiterate people hungry for wars and put that lone afraid woman, who was like "I'm so scared, I want to leave this place" in a center of their documentary to create an atmosphere of despair. Wake the f* up! Everything is propagarda.
Z Slava Putin and The Russian Federation! Get out, cheap programmed bot!
Are you still opposed to military aggression?
Very nice story of a country I know nothing more about than its name. I wonder just how much the younger generation is able to glean alternate information about Ukraine, and how many actually believe atrocities such as Bucha were 'staged'.
Why did UK Veto an Independent investigation at the UN?
AFU admitted that they shelled the place constantly during the entire time it was occupied by the Russians... I guess Ukrainian shells are magic and only kill Russians.
Why was they press not allowed in the city for 4 days after Russians left yet all the "bodies" were still in place
And we have the sattelite images of the main street with no bodies the day after Russians withdrew and then bodies laying in the street 3 days later.
Then in the best military operation Ukraine has carried out in the entire war, an army of western - pro UKR journalists were marched through the theatre/streets.
@@sisyphusvasilias3943 On the contrary, satellite imagery DOES show the bodies while the Russians were present, and in the locations where they were subsequently found.
@@sisyphusvasilias3943 Point by point rebuttal:
1) The UN ALREADY has an independent investigation on Bucha. Russia's attempt to open 'another' serves no good purpose. Sort of like trump declaring a supposed independent investigation based on Giuliani's narrative
2) Yes, Ukrainians shelled Bucha. But, the bodies that were found died of bullet wounds, not shrapnel or being blown to bits
3a) I don't know about when the press was allowed, and when it was safe to allow them. Cite a source to substantiate that it was 4 days after the last Russians left and whether or not the town was booby trapped.
3b) OF COURSE the bodies were left in place. That is REQUISITE for investigating a crime scene. Had they been moved, you would cite that as suspect too. From a forensic perspective, a crime scene is NOT disturbed until the investigation is complete. A forensic expert can determine if they died where they lay or were moved after death, identify other wounds, such as signs of torture, determine quite accurately WHEN the person died
4) Your assertion that satellite imagery does not show the bodies while Russians were present is FALSE.
twitter.com/i/events/1511068159691960325?lang=en
www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220404-satellite-images-show-bodies-in-bucha-for-weeks-rebutting-moscow-claim
www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/05/satellite-images-show-bodies-in-bucha-for-weeks-rebutting-moscow-claim-a77211
5) OF COURSE the journalists are supportive of Ukraine, just at journalists on the Russian side are pro Russian. Both sides rightly suspect that reporters from the opposing side might provide useful military intelligence, and 'spin'
i get the real news from on the ground at patrick lancaster channel. u wont get truth from msm ever.
Yes ..young people can hashtag russia and putin..who knows world can cancel all of them out of this earth...What a braindead
Russia is not cut off as much that's being reported.
it's not cut off at all. only kaliningrad is.
@Wally#01 Russia has its own aircraft industry, so they will survive without airbus & boeing!
Thank you for this documentary. Very good images that bring us to that place, travelling there even when we are sitting down here.
Thanks for your comment :)
One would expect to find more than just a few Russians with brain amongst the whole population of Kaliningrad
huh same as america. imagine that
@@relevant.c5411Russian society is heading in the direction of N. Korea and they don't care about it. They are utter idiots. It's sad and scary at the same time.
There is no kaliningrad. It is Konigsberg!
Oh, shut up!
Exclave, surely?
An enclave is a territory (or a part of one) that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state or entity.
An exclave is a portion of a state or district geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory (of one or more states or districts etc).
depends on the perspective.
Enclave = "Kaliningrad is Russia's Enclave within Prussia".
-since Prussia doe'snt exist anymore its fair to say From Lithuania/ Poland for the sake of it.
-Country or territory that sorrounds the enclave was mentioned
Exclave = "Kaliningrad is Russia's Exclave".
-no mention from other country that was attached/sorrounded by it
Kaliningrad still has Russian connection thru baltic sea, and city holds 300,000 soldiers Russia's largest navy in baltic sea
@@jerski14344 True, Kaliningrad is respected but Putin inflicts so much damage on relations with neighbors. I love Russian and I don’t consider Putin as a representative of Russia 🇷🇺. Love for Russians ❤️ but Putin is maniacal
Semi-exclave actually ------------- don't forget the Baltic Sea.
I can understand respect to the fallen solders, but can't understand why soviet symbols are on the graves of that solders. I guess, up to Russian standard, the regime from under that star wasn't oppressive enough. Totally mind-blowing is the new Russian army church, full of glorification of the symbols under which Bolsheviks and Soviets decided to totally destroy church in Russia. This doesn't make any sense, something is very much wrong with you.
Oxana Akmayeva is such a beautiful Intelligent Caring person. My heart breaks for her, you can see the pain in her eyes!
Oxana and that young man would be imprisoned for their views, I think it would've been smart to blur their face so they don't face any repercussions for speaking out against this unjust illegal War against Ukraine!!
Nice vid- well edited and to the point.
What is Nazis and fascist means to Russians. What is their difference from dictatorship and communist?
Well, Russia is not a Communist state at all you need to understand that, government uses Soviet past only in context of "great Russian history" and "great Victory" in order to help military propoganda. But in all other directions communists blamed in Russia like in EU and USA for freedom of word, tyranny, civil war etc. We have anti-communist propoganda even in our schools so we government uses it only in cases where they need it. Also we have real Marxist communists(that are not the ones that sits in Duma -our parliament) of course they dont support war, capitalism, and current regime. But it's a not a big group, and those are blamed by governmental "communists" and government as well as in your narions and government call them traitors, agents of America (as well as in GB and America they are called agents of Russia). Ah, and you asked how we see difference in nazims and all this shit, well most government supporters just saw Ukrainian nazis(thar really are in Ukraine) and believe that we fighting like in ww2 against nazims, the thing that we have same nationalists in every moment of our policy and government they don't care they believe in they country, and the Marxist communists saying like: " capitalism is always lead to facizm due to each country when have curtain level of income starts to use other countries and became a rival to the other great countries on market, and that leads to tensions and that leads to war (I'm trying to say about whole theory in one message there are more arguments)". So the difference they see not in tyranny or democracy but in production and earnings separation way in fasizm and capitalism they don't care about poor and education and other shit unless it makes you money. So Marxists and Leninists doesn't care if regime democratic or tyranny they look over market, and also they blame our government like: " we are the same country as Ukraine, we have oligarchs, we have free market, we have corruption, we have nationalists, so why the f are we fighting, we need to denationalize our country before do it with others (now you understand why are they called traitor's by those who support official government)
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Although I agree with you that not everyone supports this "Special military operation" nonsense. Especially with the long prolong war.
Just out of curious, do you view Stalin as Fascist or Marxist?
@@KPPO200 well, i think that's the hardest question for russian communists. Because regular national patriots support him(for the same purpose as support red flag over this operation not as ideas support but as contribution to historical national pride he won Hitler, etc). But left community in Russia is very different they support and criticise different ussr regimes and leaders, most of us comes to thoughts that Stalins actions was inevitable but he was Marxist other think that he ruined some Lenin ideas and is not real communist, just tyran that taken power. Let me explain, first ones say that his actions were necessary because you know country was at civil war between liberals and communists (both sides taken bloody actions and if you not use hard measures to promote citizens for war and your opponent does you will simply lose war and there be a lot of blood but your blood and your comrades), also there were anarchists over Ukraine that were acting like gang, Germany fighting as ww1 opponent, alies making they sieges over north, east and south and many others that forced him to this actions. The same reasons Stalin supporters provide for other crimes like we had weak nonindustrial country after civil war and party cleaning/national departures/grain management was needed to avoid revolts, cities destabilisation and to prepare for next war, so they say he did everything to protect people.
The guys who blame him say you know what arguments he lead country to hunger, killed democracy (may be you don't know but communists stay for democratic government like parliament and its leader), killed many people and was just fighting for the power not any ideas.
If you asked personally my opinion i think it's in the middle of both, i dont think he cared only about his power because he wasn't use it for his own prosperity he just used power to arrange country he had good and awful achievements but his rule definitely was not Marxist as it was not even close to democratic and i think not facist because he didn't want to capture world market, make industrial colonies from poor countries, he cared about education, medicine, working spaces for all nations in USSR i think he was militaristic socialist tyrann that's best description of course i agree that he made crimes but i don't know what to say you how to avoid them, because if other party in civil war wins(central government) they'd kill as much people... It's very easy to criticise politics years past they rule when you see all the results.
@@KPPO200 also i suppose i need to explain why are communists connect capitalism with facizm. It's not the way west contries use it(only in a half) west countries mostly say about freedom of word, press and democracy difference between facizm and not facizm. i already mentioned that they idea is that when any country became great power it begans to influence the world in its own interests it may be like America that say about international law(and of course use it only in own interests invading countries, forcing poor countries to produce only law quality goods like their colonies, and when they need it they don't care about press, free market, etc), but also i haven't mentioned that when it cames to so called national interests free market countries come to governmental capitalism they can nationalise any industry they think is important for country or to make ruler of it industry oligarchs and even make war or sanctionize other countries to protect its own industry. So nazi Germany and facist Italy used this very strict governmental capitalism communists say, they could invade countries for the same reasons to get resources for their own people, not to help nations they invade (build schools, plants, educate people, etc that's for the word is the way communists explain their invasions if America came to Afghanistan and just established democratic leadership, also for some reason huge amounts of heroin started to come to "free market" from Afghanistan, the USSR wanted to build civil infrastructure and of course to establish communist leadership).
The soviets did not outlaw languages. Russia, no matter how autocratic, has been a country in which many nationalities survived for centuries. That distinguishes Russia not only from nazis but also from most central and western Europeans.
A calm and surreal land scape, citizens going about their daily routine, interrupted by the heavy shelling, screams of the wounded, and dying and wreckage every where,,,,,what are they thinking??????
The 3rd World War has already begun. We will hear those screams all over Europe too. NATO is gunning for a fight. They are now grouping the EU together with them just like they did before Hitler invaded the Soviet Union and lost the war. History repeating itself.
En Donbass están acostumbrados a que los ukranazis los bombardearan.
Europa está cayendo y US también llegó el karma
The Russian athlete ... AFRAID to speak what is on his mind, fearing imprisonment .... I CANNOT believe how IGNORANT the average Russian citizen IS .......... IF they ever decide to rally and STAND UP the the leaders, they NEED to do it TOGETHER.... or change will NEVER happen .......
they should had asked that Z "patriot", why he isn't on front lines of "special operation"
The Russia army is taking it easy in Ukraine they havent even mobolized their reserves yet and the expedititionary force in Ukraine is only a 1/4 of its contract soldiers force.
Because he's not a professional solder or a "kontraktnik".
Its the town where Kant was born. So sad the great mind of Kant is not visible with the city dweller thoughts about the war.😁😁
Who was Kant?
@@moha8376 Great German Enlightenment philosopher
All the ethnic Germans were deported after WW2.
"Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable...."
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What makes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine legitimate?
Entirely US-provoked war. But under duress largely dismissed. Quite justified. Last week former pres of Ukraine Petro Porishenko said in an interview that Ukraine was getting ready for war all thise eight years. He claimed that they had no intention of adhering to Minsk Peace agreements and deliberately ignored them. That is quite indicative that they opted for war. If Russia did not strike first Ukraine was getting ready to invade the breakaway Donbass and Luhansk by force. Prior to that Russia was authorized by agreement to deliver them security,
🌕Let me give you an example if Russia 🇷🇺 and China 🇨🇳 deployed its militaries under disguise of Mexican units next door to the US border state of San Diego and kept for years arming, funding, with multiple military training programs of Mexican National Guardia what would the US’s response be?? Thus Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is justified given that the US played tricks with Russia via Ukraine testing. Nobody wants to admit but the US was acting hostile toward Russia for the last 10 years and that was too explicit not to be seen. The US and UK have hijacked Ukraine and making it pay the price.
Putin’s response. That’s it.
This occupied Eastern Prussia looks still quite run down. Once the Russian Federation will be reduced to the region around Moscow, this territory will be up for bidding.
What rubbish!
Indignante y 🤮. Polonia 🥶🥶
Haha. Come and try. Europe will be turned into dust
Anything Russia touches Turns to 💩. So much land and resources and it still looks like a third World country
Nobody wants it...
What a brave woman she is . Total respect from Liverpool Uk 🇬🇧
Kaliningrad is maybe a good example of a Russian republic to gain independence and seek its own future. As a Baltic nation, it'd be very interesting to see how they'd decide to develop.
When/ if at some point they could break free from Kremlin propaganda I believe they could integrate themselves more in the region, it would really be interesting to see Kalinigrad as an independent nation. Furthermore Russia would shorten their borders with NATO with about 500 km's, that should make Kremlin happy. I hope they will achieve independence some day (first of all, they must want it themselves, I'm not so sure they want it yet).
I'm afraid it could lead to civil war in parts of russian ex-empire as there are cities in east europe that seek revenge for gaining political freedom without monetary gains that was promised by the their leaders. Crooks and liers that wish to build utopia with religious zealots for example, but are minority nationally in poland for one instance. People like these also exist in countries like usa, but extremes are more socially accessible in parts of poland that wish to gain independence or make sure rationalists are never in control of law making. Soviet union and warsaw pact fucked alot of nations and people are still divided along religious fundamentalists and normal people, who have too much communistic ideals and opinions left to this day. Your "intelligencia" is seriously fucked up still and it will take decades for relatable left wing to be in existence. Until then you have to deal with possibility of your democracy ending without bloodshed like it did in other part of eastern europe like belarus, who I assume had real democratic possibilities in -91 and before. Talking about poland that has autocratic dictatorship in place and freedom of speech is curse word throws by socially conservative. Fixable but will take landslides to even get past possibility of being made unviable by socially conservative judges.
People talk a lot about some russian region suddenly declaring inderpendence. I'm not here to say if it'll make this region better or worse, I'll just say it's not possible under current conditons, nor was it possible 8 months ago.
1)Most of the population is russian.
2)There haven't been any actual mass protests. ( And even if there were - Kremlin wouldn't care. Kremlin wouldn't just let it go.)
3)They don't have their own developed econmy.
4) How do you even image Kaliningrad getting independence? Do you think Russia will politely ask if people living there want Kaliningrad to be its own country, and then Russia as democratic country (which it isn't) will gave Kaliningrad the independence they wished for?
@@M.i.s.e.r.yМы русские о какой независимости идет речь???😂😂😂😅😅😅
@@user-lp6to9hb7m Да я тоже не знаю. Был бы в Калининграде какой-нибудь коренной народ, которому не нравилось что они субъект РФ, было бы понятно почему люди думают мол вот щас Россия развалится и Калининград станет независимым. Из всех субъектов, очень не логично ожидать что тот, в котором 90% русские вдруг станет независимым, в этом нету никакого смысла.
I'll never forget Russia what they did to Ukraine I'll never visit or go on holiday to Russia either they have lost my money
Poor mouse
You won't make a difference really anyway
Nobody gives a shit...č
@@elrojo4379 right...russia is going to suffer anyway
@@larrybunnell5480 yea, they are suffering so badly right now. I mean it's not like countries are still doing business with Russia, wait a minute. Mexico, Brazil, India, China, Pakistan, well nevermind, I guess Russia isn't suffering. But the west tried and that's all that matters right? They should pat themselves on the back.
An outstanding doc. Photography ,voiceover draws you in
That's how propaganda works.
That's the beauty and genius of western propaganda, equal those of hollywood productions, it really makes you believe in all the lies from the west.
People of Kaliningrad loyal to their country, and rightly so, is viewed as propaganda, as though they should be loyal to USA or UK :)
Meanwhile US, UK have both been land grabbing throughout their entire existence (grabbing multiple continents even) and yet saw fit to condemn others, you really couldn't make this up.
What a strong Woman. Wish her only the best.
The place was always a backwater, even when it was a German territory, before Both World Wars. My great grandfather from Keonigsberg, to the US sometime in the 1870's. I'm glad that he did.
You know who traces her ancestry back to Königsberg, or at least the general area? - Rashida Jones, the actress from Park 'n Rec.
It was one of the surprising revelations on one of those ancestry shows, where they traced her mother's lineage. It might exist on Ytube.
@Ian Sacks you really are an ignorant little boy! I have a spinning wheel from around 1850. On the underside of it is a story what did happen to my great great grandpa. My grandma wrote it down, after talking with my great grandpa. It is a very tragic history.
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What makes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine legitimate?
Entirely US-provoked war. But under duress largely dismissed. Quite justified. Last week former pres of Ukraine Petro Porishenko said in an interview that Ukraine was getting ready for war all thise eight years. He claimed that they had no intention of adhering to Minsk Peace agreements and deliberately ignored them. That is quite indicative that they opted for war. If Russia did not strike first Ukraine was getting ready to invade the breakaway Donbass and Luhansk by force. Prior to that Russia was authorized by agreement to deliver them security,
🌕Let me give you an example if Russia 🇷🇺 and China 🇨🇳 deployed its militaries under disguise of Mexican units next door to the US border state of San Diego and kept for years arming, funding, with multiple military training programs of Mexican National Guardia what would the US’s response be?? Thus Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is justified given that the US played tricks with Russia via Ukraine testing. Nobody wants to admit but the US was acting hostile toward Russia for the last 10 years and that was too explicit not to be seen. The US and UK have hijacked Ukraine and making it pay the price.
Putin’s response. That’s it.
@@viktor8928 And now a former kgb guy seems to be trying to drive russia down a similar road. Keeping that egomaniac contained without escalation is going to be interesting. But west can replace russia and find another trade partner and energy supplier. Russia and many of its citizens chose this path by enabling putins abuses, now they will face the consequences.
@Ian Sacks My great grandfather, Carl Gorski died before my dad was born. He was not a good person, he beat his wife, but I give him respect for coming to the US and having a college education which was rare, at that time
Such a silly little place. Germany should annex it when Russia colapses.
Russia is getting stronger, there will be no collapse.
@@jacleena One thing to consider is that everything collapses, it is only a question of time. A second is that "collapse" does not mean it is destroyed. It can mean destruction, such as the Roman empire, but usually it only means that its current form changes. An example from current times is the USSR. While there are no guarantees that Russia will collapse it holds several of the signs; massive popular support of the elite and war means that the elite must deliver. This is how over-extension begins. In the case of Russia over-extension came quickly due to internal corruption of military funds for upkeep. The fallout of this alone is enough to begin internal purges and thus infighting.
I would give Russia no more then a decade in its current form.
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I would give the European Union no more than a decade in its current form.
@@lukasnummer1 That sounds like a pipe dream. While I would enjoy it, I do not see the collapse of the EU likely. However, the central powers want to expand it to have "tiers" of membership, so in a sense you are right. As a side note, I am not from the EU, I am Norwegian.
People from every country are difficult . Narcissistic traits make us destroy one another . The wars will go on over and over .
We should be looking much more into how to eliminate this gene and see if man could then find peace .
We are killing each other from the beginning of time
hello, can you tell puting that?
i am sure he will take you seriously
Kaliningrad is not Russian..Get the facts right
"Fascist should never be encouraged or praised. Russia has never been the aggressor and will never be. Things in Ukraine are those fascist in America's fault"
CIA slipped stupid extract into the Blyant Vodka; hence all weird russian bot comments...
@Wally#01 well said
Always shocking to see how ugly they made Königsberg!
There is nothing ugly about the city. You can't build 19. century style buildings forever. Using this logic you can also call Berlin ugly.
@@frostrune You haven't seen much in your life, right? You should see, for example, how beautifully Poles rebuilt their cities after the 2nd WWW. Russia just has always been in the mud and shit, and so far it can't be otherwise. There is no society there, only a "nation" that is working hard on gangsters.
@@alh6255 Ruskij mir
@@alh6255 Those are just the ramblings of a man full of dumb stereotypes. Especially seen in that last sentence.
The Russian World has nothing to offer its neighbours apart from corruption and neo-fascism all wrapped in a pathetic victim mentality. Get over yourselves lads, there's a reason Russian aggression has led to all your old colonies turning to NATO.
Bruh Russia is and has always been a sad place
I think you should interview people of Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Libya or the homeless people of USA. You have no idea what sadness is.
That was really funny when that man said it was all those Americans Fascist fault. That gave me a good laugh. That’s Russia propaganda.
It’s Putin’s military aggression against Ukraine 🇺🇦 that has caused most of the problems.
“Why are you filming?!” The question of someone brainwashed or who knows they’re doing wrong.
They seem like nice free and easy people,,,,looks very old world and quaint
If I see Kaliningrad the way it looks now replicated in villages all over Russia, I'd say the country's in a sorry state.
Kaliningrad District is a very underinvested and neglected part of Russia, treated as a great base for nuclear weapons and that's it, nothing more. The possibility of shopping in Poland, before the border was closed, was highly appreciated there ... But you are not right. In fact this area is very similar to most provincial Russia, in many places it is even worse (70% of Russians have no modern WC, 40% put sewage into the gutter under the windows or pour them through the window or balcony. Kaliningrad inherited at least the sewage system from the Germans).
Russia is a vast country, and even you've traveled to a small nation like Brunei Darussalam, you will find the same situations where you can never find ultra modern facilities in the districts far from the main city where you can find people living there are happy as though that time is always on their side. Good luck chump! 😅
Königsberg, Germany
Oxana your heart is rightous! Rejoice! You are with the Victorious! The Free of the of the world by far will prevail. Prayers to UKRAINE 🇺🇦 GLORY to UKRAINE 🇺🇦 from the UNITED STATES 🇺🇸
Yeah ukraine glory in your dream hahaha
In July 1946, the Soviet Union drove out all the Germans in Kaliningrad?
I keep watching these videos and just cant get it how insane some russians are
It's nothing new for Russia's neighbours.
Communism is actually a religion, so there’s no resolution except war. Communism beats a snake and telling the world they’re good, but the fact is they’re the more vicious and most poisonous snake, the most dangerous kind, it just that it didn’t has enough power to fully annihilate this world!
i am not i know what are they they are shifty from top to botom never trust to any one
This is all west news. Try reading about JFK managing cuban missile crisis full you'll understand y Putin dont want nato at border they were promised not an inch expansion of nato after German reunification
Because the comedian zionist terrorits bootlicker started all this by working hand in hand with the neo nazis rather than to implement the Minsk Agreement since 2014 when the West led the coup d'etat in maidan, bombed, attacked, shelled their own Russian speaking peace loving citizens in the eastern Ukraine. You must be high on pink, mate! 😜
Kaliningrad should be an independent country
Y they could call it P-russia. But it will never come true sadly, Imperator Putler will never let this happen. And also most people in Kaliningrad don't want independence, why would they if they are all Russian. But what surprises me is they live surrounded by Poland and Lithuania, some of them on border could even travel relatively easy to Lithuania or Poland, and at least use to have right to transit Lithuania to get to Russia and back by car before the war. So people should see how Lithuania or Poland improved after leaving Russia influence, I'm kind a surprised they don't want it for they own region.
Fake title
Majority of free people in the world today support Russia in their struggle for security and independence
Russians are not cut off, they can,and always have been able to travel by train. Most goods are still gettin in via rail. All that has happened is that some items sanctioned under EU ruling, have been blocked from being moved by rail.
Well it is so but the Russia se this as a war crime so what they do now is very dangerous if they attack they wil sure be wiped of the map so i would be careful if i was Russia here! And we wil obelirate the whole Kalingrad in 1 hour and Russia in 1 day or so, so i would relakse and do nothing.
"All that's happened" is a bit of an understatement, don't you think?
please look at the map, it can be supplied thru sea lanes by ships from rusia
@@ky5314 at much more cost
@@pierretrudeau5549 Ask Ukrainians about "much more cost" of being killed by Russians.
"We have faith in [..] our president [...] and our ideals"
Nobody needs a president like this one and nobody need this ideals...
There are people who disagree.
@@jacleena lunatic asylums usually are, nevertheless sane people don't compromise
@@pwp8737 Haha, that's what the West is doing.
@@jacleena do you never gets tired of showing your stupidity to everyone? Your few rubels are not worth it!
War is too expensive an undertaking for it to be over "ideals" - it is, and has always been, over resources. In earlier days it would be land (farmland) but theses days it is most often over fossil fuel or rare minerals.
Yes, the leaders SAY it is to bring "democracy", "freedom" or to "eliminate" undesired political views but that is merely a way of glossing over the real reasons, a justification of the expense and loss of life.
Ty
Living in a German built house and says Lithuania is Russian as well.These people have little grasp of anything other than what their shepherds steer them to.Russia is the largest country in Europe but still needs to take over more land from neighbours.The definition of a bully can be found in Russians attacks on its smaller neighbours.Do most Russians think like this,I hope not
Really enjoyed this report. Great filming. Even felt the angst as that ZRusso solder made a B line for you.
I’m constantly shocked and frustrated at the Oppressive silence 🤐 of Russians! To any From within Russia- Can you imagine what that looks like from the outside? It’s like watching flys banging against a window trying to get out when the next window over is wide open, you have to take a step back and SEE! 😥
What about the Iraqis, Afghanis, Libyans, Syrians, Yemenis, Iranians...etc that you silenced and murdered? You never said anything about that back then.
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Had to swallow this but my generation have gotten used to seeing fights in the Middle East. It is normalised in our minds. I think USA and Russia have used it as a Battle ground to test out their military capabilities and achieve or aid control over oil for a favoured member of the country.
It’s disgusting and now that I’m older and learning more about how our world operates, I don’t favour the actions that were taken.
What is hard to swallow “today”is to see war in what the western world considers to be a representation of peaceful civilised Europe. And the west SHOULD HAVE paid much more attention back in 2014.
Kaliningrad should be discussed much more indepth all across the world because it is the perfect example of what is done to a culture with so many ethnic diversities which was completely decimated to the point of now being extinct and was used as the sacrificial lamb in the name of greed and power hunger from one to another and another, while ordinary people not only witnessed murder, rape, loss of everything they had but also were forced to sign all their rights away ever to call their own home their home again. How sick was that?! And as we can see today this sort of thing just never stops, history keeps repeating itself it is just another area or another culture simply because people just don't want to get involved to say right from wrong and speak up and actually get of their backsides and do something. Because it is so convenient if someone else gets hurt but not us. Shame on all of us because one day it will be us thanks to our pure complacency of not calling a duck a duck. Wars and supporting power hungry self serving narcistic leaders all across the world needs to stop. Also, Kaliningrad should have been declared a fully independent zone since the end of World War 2 from the start and no military equipment should have ever been allowed to be placed there, another big mess created by the former "world leaders" with potentially severe consequences. Kant is turning in his grave right now but that is not enough, we the common people need to really stop all this nonsense of invasions and wars for nothing but ego massaging of a select few while everyone else suffers.
Königsberg*
@@hardassteel Königsberg? i only see Kaliningrad my guy
No, it couldn't be that way 'cause fascist Germany had to pay Soviet people for all the atrocities it had commited in the USSR during the War. And to tell the truth, the compensation was too worthless compared with what they had done to our country.
@@swacks7960 Me too. And that's great :)
The Russians destroyed a beautiful Prussian city, rich with culture and prosperity, and decided to build in its place the complete antithesis of what a beautiful city should look like.
The russian colonization has always been done together with a russification. This leads nowadays to a dangereous situation in many places. Kaliningrad is clearly an anomaly , a caricature of what russian imperialism could produce along its history. Decolonization is always a tough process but in the case of the russian empire , we are far from the end of it.
It seems like it barely even started. What a shit country.
After Russia lost 27 MILLILON people (soldiers plus civilians) to defeat Nazi Germany up to Berlin, it could keep ALL the territories it wanted. You decide to attack, you pay the price. I would have kept all Germany and never taken russian bases out as Gorbachev did in 1990. If Nazi Germany had won, they had a plan to transfer all surviving russians behind Ural mountains and never let them back.
@Gary Allen better Texas.
When england stole all rice and grain from india which caused starvation, Churchil (the hero of the free world) said "Indians are not humans, they are animals. If they fucked less, they wouldn't be starving now." In total they killed over 25 millions indians. Indians say 35 millions. Stay away from us "free ppl of the west" or one day you will make us give you a nuclear hell.
Better the countries in Europe.
What do you mean the world? The world is bigger than Europe.
If Lithuania is still USSR then Kallinigrad belongs to GERMANY. Just an idea. It would be better on Germans hands. Just a thought. All previous USSR countries are in NATO. That should say a lot. Pity that this great place got into the hands of dictator. Dispalying tanks and guns. Just pathetic. Polamd wants it back? Propaganda has burnt their brains. Slava Ukraini💛💙💛💙
Kalliningrad is useless to Germany, they dont even share a border.
@Ian Sacks Yes, all Putin does is destroy everything around him. He can’t handle democracy
@Ian Sacks your brain is burnt. Get help. Slava Ukraini🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
@Ian Sacks They have the right to govern themselves whatever way they want within their own borders. You may not like it, but that is their own choice as a people. Russia should not have invaded, just like the US should not have other countries, same as Britain. Big military powers should NOT be bullies to smaller nations
@Ian Sacks 3 days blietzkrieg to take Kiev and replace the president of Ukraine with a puppet failed miserably , 4 months passed and the second army in the world struggle against the 22'th army in the world . And of course they are still blaming US/EU/NATO for this , pathetic excuse, not a single fire shot from the west , yet !!!
No offence, but Russia needs to leave Kalliuningrad...it's not like they've even done a great job taking care of it.
they can't take care of anything, it's all falling apart. there's like five cities is all of russia that aren't complete shit, or have smokestack skylines belching out back shit 24/7.
@@gibbsm Americans have turned a clean Europe into brown mixed race septic tank
Morning 🌄🌞 everything going just time with this matter peace ✌️ thanks guys
Nice documentary, people are more reserved compared to western countries like in America. To be more balanced viewpoint would be to discuss the impact of the EU/Western sanctions have caused the city.
The most telling thing from this dvd is how wary people were of critisizing the Nazi Russian governments behaviour.
@@dukeford8893 The difference between a Nazi and a Communist is.......................Absolutely nothing.
7:04 'and history has shown time and again we're not to be harassed' - not quite correct translation. I checked with google : she said 'you don't have to contact us'. But then they are coming there 'to be close to the Europe to visit it'.
It's the original 'great soviet state' logic, I remember it ) They have been always like that.
Wow, I kept thinking this was DW documentary. Same voice of the narrator
Wishing Oxana all the best and strength to carry on
Historically its still królewiec or konigsberg and i will call it like that :)
Zionists still call Nablus Shem yet there is zero Zionists there.
@@petarjovanovic1481 i prefer a bit of history insted of calling that city after a war criminal and a piece of human garbage.
It would be great if Germany could take back Konigsburg.
Warm nicht alles die Sudetenland auch?
They don’t want to .
It just create a big problem with so many Russians in Germany.
@@eduardtarniceriu102 exactly, would be a massive issue. They should deport all the Russians just like Stalin deported the Germans from there when he took it.
@UBEATS exactly, would be a massive issue. They should deport all the Russians just like Stalin deported the Germans from there when he took it.
Why? There is nothing there Germany needs! But there is a lot of toxic (maybe nuclear) waste from the RuZZian military. Spend billions to fix, if fixable at all, for what??? A few cultural relics? And what do you do with the Russians? Create a northern Irland inside Germany??? Very, very bad idea!
The lady in red claiming "Russians will not be harassed". How sad to not realize her own government has been harassing her for her entire life.
Agreed. Many ordinary black americans will know what it's like.
At least they are not being lynched or shot every few weeks by KKK US Police.
Do you think an average russian could safely speak up about their country's bs on youtube without their security being threatened ?
Kaliningrad does not belong to Russia, it is German East Prussia - Koenigsberg to be precise.
I am afraid US taught the world post WW2, that "might is right".
US and UK have both been land grabbing throughout their entire existence.
Germany is an African colony and always be like that
@@ijusthatenormiesihavenooth1164 Do you mean to say Germany is an American colony, actually it has been post WW2.
In fact many infamous Natzees ended up working for the CIA.
8:55 Lol, Poland has nothing to do with Kaliningrad ever. If anything, it's Germany that should reclaim East Prussia which includes territories gifted to Poland after the war.
Poland does not need Kalliningrad. Poland does not need this pain in the a...
Lol
Do you know how Germans find them selfs in Prussia in first place, who let them live there and why? And did you know that Poland looses better territory after second war, more and better than they got from germany , all taken by taken by USSR . And another thing, territory is not given by God or Engels but taken by sword at war. Germany looses this war and looses territory. That happens over and over from beginning of human race, every piece of ground is taken from someone by force. This territories for last 1000 years been in Germans, Czech, Swedes and Polish hands many times. Important is who has it now, today. Germans should not start killing Jewish people in gas chambers and rides neighbour countries in 39 than who knows maybe today they will be there today still.
@Jonathan Bouchard and you think your xenophobic comment makes you cute? 😂
Russia should Start from Ural mountains to the East. !!!
People like you are very usefull for Russian propaganda
@@mikhail7863 HomoSovieticus never will be proEurope values and pro humains rights. Ruzzzians propaganda is doing well by it self.
What about the Suwalki path? It is about 60km large and can cut Lithuanian. Any info about?
Kaliningrad is the territory in which you have to pass through Lithuania.. to reach.. it is not in the mainland of course its isolated..