When I was a child, I knew a map of Poland and thought that the Kaliningrad region is the whole of Russia, so when someone told me Russia is the biggest country in the world, I thought they lost their mind because Poland is clearly bigger.

@SevenHunnid

Жыл бұрын

Yerrrr I’m just a young Mexican trying to get out the hood 💯 i smoke weed on my KZread channel & i did a Mukbang inside Lowes🍔🥶

@prabathhemachandra

Жыл бұрын

This comment is an exact copy of a comment on a history matters video, not sure if this is actually a copied comment though.

@poisonbcm5275

Жыл бұрын

I have seen this exact comment before.... Hmmmm

@expandedhistory

Жыл бұрын

@@prabathhemachandra Did you ever consider that comment was from my personal KZread channel and this may or may not be my History channel.

@Mongolass

Жыл бұрын

copied comment from history matters lmao

The sheer loss of history and culture that occured in the second world war is simply unquantifiable. Entire cities that stood for centuries were just raised to the ground. I see it in my hometown too.

@liljianwei5838

Жыл бұрын

Not to be a spelling nazi, but it's "razed".

@fbi3881

Жыл бұрын

@Safwaan Just in general, Warsaw was a big pile of rubble after WW2

@LuisC7

Жыл бұрын

Your banner lol

@LuisC7

Жыл бұрын

@Safwaan look his banner

@Wurstbrot5555

Жыл бұрын

@Safwaan The sad thing is Poland refused too many capitulation offers, even didn't accept to send out children, afterwards the bombers started.

When I was a kid, around 7 perhaps, it was the time when I would obsessively look at maps. I noticed the small part near Poland and saw no label or whatsoever, I put my finger to it and told everyone that I'm going to claim it as my country.

@windows95_de

10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@benderbender-ij7ld

9 ай бұрын

If you go there and tell them that right now, they might crown you king and secede. From the sound of it, they could use a good reason to ditch Russia.

@CrusaderBooga

8 ай бұрын

"the republic of khust2993"

@KINOSHOT999

7 ай бұрын

​@@benderbender-ij7ldso stupid thinks😅

@somerandomdude4665

7 ай бұрын

@@benderbender-ij7ldThat would not bode well from Russia. That is, unless you were to answer to Putin (and potentially lukashengo (or whoever belarus’s leader is)) only. That’s because it’s a very strategic location in terms of taking over 3 other nations and securing large russian influence over the Baltic Sea, and is the only year round warm water port

My mom was born in konigsberg in 1938.during WWII my grandma took her 7 children to Bavaria through the middle of the war all alone .she was a great lady.

@TrickShepherd

26 күн бұрын

My opa was born there too. That's all we know, all other records were destroyed.

My grandpa‘s family had to flee from Eastern Prussia when he was a kid. This was the first time I got an adequate explanation and visualization of what happened back then, thank you!

@arnyarny7991

Жыл бұрын

Yes kaliningrad was prussian and in Germany are many slavic cities - very old cities (

@Aureus_

Жыл бұрын

@@arnyarny7991 Koenigsberg was never slavic, It was home to pagan balts

@stefanmisic7405

Жыл бұрын

Basically - Nazis

@great_icosahedron

Жыл бұрын

My great-grandpa also fled from there all the way to thuringia

@GTAVictor9128

Жыл бұрын

I'm Polish, and my great grandmother was born in Lviv (back when it was called Lwów in Polish).

In 1998, I worked in a care home in Germany. We had a few old ladies from this area, who retained their strong East Prussian accent even more than 50 years after they were forced to leave. Many were traumatised, full of nostalgia for their homeland and never really adjusted to life as "exiled" people. In a few years there'll be no more Germans with any first-hand connection to this area....

@merropcs110

Жыл бұрын

There is none of Prussian left in Koningsberg. Most were killed with friendly allied carpet bombing. Prussian is heavy dialect .... The Frauen surely missed it. 😭

@pawemackiewicz3010

Жыл бұрын

There is certainly nobody alive from the times before Prussia occupied these lands by slaughtering its previuos nations with sword and fire, by the holy and deceptive knights of the Teutonic Order.

@Deadpoolion

Жыл бұрын

Without negativity, but we Russians are not to blame for the fact that you in Europe are constantly raiding us. Even the thousands of kilometers that separate France, Britain, Germany, from Russia do not stop you from attacking us in the 19th and 20th centuries. Why we are the largest country in the world because as soon as a new dominant force appears in Europe or Asia, they always try to conquer Russia for the last 500 years and when they lose, we take away part of the territory. This is if you do not remember even more ancient history when the same Germans went to Russia with crusades (bloody) campaigns (12-13 centuries), although we were also Christians. In Prussia, before the Germans, the Baltilian peoples lived, whom the Teutonic knights slaughtered in the same northern crusades.

@eovarendre7877

Жыл бұрын

Hate to break it to you, but these are all ramifications of a destructive, murderous and treacherous regime. (not unlike Stalin's...) Normal humans always seem to fall victim to demagogue 'leader' turning them in to mass canon fodder on any which side.

@euzebiuszzagorski1437

Жыл бұрын

Prusy to nie były Niemcy. Zostali zniemczeni.

I live in kaliningrad and I wanna tell why it was rebuilded like regular soviet city. first of all Konigsberg was totaly destroed ( I mean it was totaly burned to the ground, you can easily find photos in web ) by british airforce bombing in august of 1944, after that just use your imagination: thousands of soviet people, who just tired after war, came there and begin big construction, their goal was not to repair this beautiful german buildings, they just want to build places for living , repair infrastructure easy and fast . And still Kalingrad have 2 old districts full of german archeteture ( about 35 % of city )

@TTFerdinand

Жыл бұрын

Back in the day after the war they didn't value old architecture the way we do now, so a lot of it is understandable. It was way easier to take the burnt buildings down and build something fast instead of trying to preserve and restore, and in Soviet times preserving and restoring something from before was never really a thing. But it would be an interesting place to visit some day, I think.

@mhow4967

Жыл бұрын

I'm not Russian, British, american, Chinese. Russia has the right to survive.

@theonehappyorc1235

Жыл бұрын

@@mhow4967 Russian right to live was declined by the West long ago.

@franciscotabarus5742

Жыл бұрын

Who says otherwise? Its putin the world even russians dont.

@kawsuc6564

Жыл бұрын

I lived in Kaliningrad in the 90s as a student of the Kaliningrad State Technical University. I spent five years in this city. I loved Kaliningrad! I loved the food here and ate lots of Baltic sprats. I visited many places in Kaliningrad including the grave of Emmanuel Kant, (the German philosopher), the Amber Museum, the Oceanography Museum, etc. I saw many German tourists arriving in Kaliningrad who visited ancestral homes and the graveyards of their grandparents. I lived on one of the longest streets in Kaliningrad at the time known as Ulitsa Gorkovo. Russian people all over the Russian Federation are very nice people. I travelled so many times from Kaliningrad to Moscow by train via Lithuania and Belarus. I travelled to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by coach a few times.

When I was in 1st grade and was learning about Poland's neighbours I always wondered why Russia wouldn't just give away this piece of land, since their country wasn't even connected to it by land. I was 6 and had no idea about how important this land is.

@albertthegreat9192

Жыл бұрын

Hah. You know, l live here, in Kaliningrad, and l sometimes think, what will happen, if NATO will try to capture city. At all, if war between us and NATO will start.

@albertthegreat9192

Жыл бұрын

@@transscant1080 mmm. Yeah, they'll probably turn it into dust by artillery strikes.

@christofabt8958

Жыл бұрын

@@albertthegreat9192 NATO is not interested in Königsberg. Why should they?

@albertthegreat9192

Жыл бұрын

@@christofabt8958 if war will start - it's base for many units of Russian army. They WILL try to capture it or destroy. Because there is Russian baltic fleet base.

@VladislavYe

Жыл бұрын

@@transscant1080 why NATO with Ukraine? Almost 20 years. With Baltic states? Democracy, freedom, blah-blah-blan? Nah

Kaliningrad is a very important naval port for Russia, as most of their ports, with the exception of their ports in The Black Sea, freeze over during the Winter. Without it, the Russia navy would be severely limited.

@dedgzus6808

Жыл бұрын

@Don't read profile photo Can't read.

@eethan_c7132

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for giving me 18 minutes of my life

@italy8795

Жыл бұрын

LOL...THEY CAN ALWAYS OPERATE THEIR NAVY IN RIVERS/LAKES JUST LIKE SOME SWITZERLAND DID

@italy8795

Жыл бұрын

HOW ABOUT CASPIAN "LAKE"?

@heidirabenau511

Жыл бұрын

@@italy8795 not if they want to export oil by sea

My grandmother had to flee from Königsberg, but she always talked about it how beautiful it was when it belonged to germany. She lived more than 70years in Hamburg but she still call her home Königsberg and not Hamburg.

@Vitalis94

Жыл бұрын

Konigberg was just another Hanseatic city... It was likely just her nostalgia talking... Nothing that special about Konigsberg, other than it being the only major city in East Prussia, which was largely an agricultural backwater. Yet it seems like most Prussian descendents fled from Konigberg itself, and that no one lived outside of the city, even though the rural population made some 90% of it...

@davidford3115

Жыл бұрын

@@Vitalis94 Noting special except that many famous German philosophers came from there. Such intellectual giants like Immanuel Kant. Then you have the fact that before the rise of the Prussian elites, it was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

@Vitalis94

Жыл бұрын

@@davidford3115 Well, there are a lot of even tiny towns which birthed famous people. Konigsberg was never a part of the PLC, though. Prussian duchy was fully autonomous.

@TremereTT

Жыл бұрын

@@davidford3115 It was allways Prussian. Nothing of it was Polish or Lithuanian in any way. It was just part of a political and military alliance. Just like Vichy France and Germany...

@afookingarcher7195

Жыл бұрын

By all my Russian ancestors' accounts, it was a beautiful place. But they did not know how to maintain that level of beauty, or repair what had been destroyed during the war. Many like my great-grandfather were merely peasants trying to get as far away from the horrors they had witnessed in Moscow.

I’ve never witnessed a more seamless segway from history lesson to advertisement in my life

@sentinel1armour

Жыл бұрын

This channel is all about profit, not teaching anyone. Greedy bustards.

@Alexc99xd

Жыл бұрын

segue

@johnhulse4674

Жыл бұрын

I had the same thought. It really was well done.

@anthonykavi7025

Жыл бұрын

Must acquire brilliant… 😅

It's funny how you put a picture of Riga instead of Konigsberg at 3:38. Greetings from Latvia!

Kaliningrad / Königsberg / Królewiec was part of Germany for 75 years (1871-1945), before that it was part of Prussia for about 200 years (1701-1871), before that it was dependent on Poland (as a fief) for 200 years (1466-1674), and before that it was owned by the Teutonic Knights for over 200 years (1255-1466), and before that, it belonged to the Baltic tribe of Prussians.

@henningbartels6245

Жыл бұрын

It was only part of Germany from 1871 on, because the German state was founded this year.

@akouafray8616

Жыл бұрын

Russia has the dna to invade and owns every lands it captured. It took the far east in that way , the kurils , the Georgian two regions , the kaliningrad, outer manchuria , a host of other territories , now it is doing so again with Ukraine.

@Atomasd

Жыл бұрын

And before that?

@eldromedario3315

Жыл бұрын

@@Atomasd whatever nations ruled europe before indoeuropeans came, e.g. basque ppl in spain/france

@henningbartels6245

Жыл бұрын

@@Atomasd I guess no records.

My family from my mothers side is from there- my grandmother was eaten up inside by her homesickness to the area her whole life and I grew up with the stories. She was one of the civilians that had to flee. My grandfather was a professor at the University of then still wiith the German name Königsberg.

@naapsulusmurmurusmurmurus2392

Жыл бұрын

that land dosent belong to germans , like estonia , dosent belongs to germans or other area where germans immigrated dosent belong to them , like volga germans, they where settlers

@Sabine00KH

Жыл бұрын

@@naapsulusmurmurusmurmurus2392 Its not German anymore of course but it was once as part of the history of the area.

@dekaredfire

Жыл бұрын

@@Sabine00KH Before it's conquest by Teutonic Order it was inhabited by Old Prussian who are distinct Baltic etnic group instead of Germanic

@DiskusGames

Жыл бұрын

@@naapsulusmurmurusmurmurus2392 It doesn’t matter who this land “belongs” to. People being forcibly removed from their home is always awful

@konig4643

Жыл бұрын

Family came from there too. Aus der Traum.

Thank you so much for structured and educational videos. If it wasn't for you, I would never be curious about history, I always hated it since school because I have difficulty remembering dates. But now a lot of my friends and me too are history nerds thanks to your videos. By the way 1500 dollar per month couldn't be the average wage in Russia back in 2014. According to official sources it was 1000 dollars a month back in 2014 and now it's 850 dollars. But of course in reality most of the people earn much below average. We have a tremendous wage gap between major cities (Moscow and Saint Petersburg) and the rest of the country. 1500 dollars a month could be an average wage in Moscow though while the rest of the country's average in reality was and still is around 600 dollars a month.

@user-is3lh7vx4e

Жыл бұрын

Right. But the cost of maintaining a house, food and other things is much lower than in the EU

@user-vz2go7of1n

7 ай бұрын

В России все регионы выравнены и зарплата примерно одинакова везде ,но если ты занят своим бизнесом ,то можешь быть миллионером ,в любой части России. Средний русский живёт лучше ,чем средний европеец !

I was thinking about this yesterday and this video popped straight into my recommendation today... Thank you!

My grandfather grew up in Königsberg in the 1920ies and 30ies. He died some years ago. He always sometimes told us about his childhood. Sounded chill. Still glad living today. The 20ies were very shaky in Germany and the 30ies... Well you all know what happened there. In the war he was conscripted, after the war he was British POW for a short period of time before moving to west Berlin. He didn't go back to east Prussia until the 1990ies, when he was retired

@gothicgolem2947

Жыл бұрын

What did he hink about it changing from Germany to Russia. Also sorry for your loss

@haisheauspforte1632

Жыл бұрын

@@gothicgolem2947 don't really know. I think he was somewhat disappointed, I think he missed his home. I mean he had a well payed job in west Berlin and an extremely high pension, but I think he would have preferred to stay in east Prussia.

@Creax-X-

Жыл бұрын

My family had its routes there before the war aswell, near a city which was called "Stettin" back then

@haisheauspforte1632

Жыл бұрын

@@Creax-X- my grandmother (from my dads side, the grandfather from east Prussia is my moms dad) is also from a village near Stettin. She also fled in the war when she was 11

@tylerbozinovski427

Жыл бұрын

Ahh someday Germany will get it back. Someday...

As Lithuanian let me add one point - The 1st secretary of Lithuanian SSR A. Sniečkus although was really loyal to Soviet regime stated another reason of not willing to accept the Kaliningrad. The reason was that the land is very poor there therefore no real value would be added. In the modern days Kaliningrad is still very poor and whoever would willingly accept taking this part would have to invest too much money to build proper infrastructure. So not really worth it.

@mikeherrera2688

Жыл бұрын

If Lithuania claim kaliningrad territory at the time by soviet it would be free border with Poland as well to reunite each other.

@jjuanmarin

Жыл бұрын

free land is free lanf they should have taken it

@nathanhiggers4606

Жыл бұрын

One of the real reasons is that Lithuania didn't have enough demographic potential to populate it

@johnsuckher3037

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeherrera2688 there was already border with Poland?

@staropramen478

Жыл бұрын

That's the same reason why Finland declined to get back the Karelian part that they lost during WW2. Even small eastern Finnish towns are light years ahead of the towns on the other side of the border. Truly sad to think that Vyborg could've been the biggest city in Finland today.

Fascinating! Your channel is the best!

Great video! Another interesting fact is that the great ‘German’ philosopher Immanuel Kant lived in Konigsberg all his life. In fact he was a man of such pedantic regular habits it is thought he only ventured outside Konigsburg a couple of times in his life. The great irony relating to this excellent video is that Kant’s philosophy is actually the basis of modernism and the modern world, we all act and think in a Kantian way every day! I would recommend a great book on this called ‘Brexit, Kant and Othello’ by S.James.

@Melody_Raventress

8 ай бұрын

Indeed, the one time kant actually planned to take a trip, his neighbors were so curious to see him leave, the notably averse kant cancelled rather than face all the onlookers in the street.

@sebastianhandley8471

8 ай бұрын

@@Melody_Raventress great story!

Fun fact: The place was named Königsberg in honor of King Přemysl Otakar II. Of Bohemia. 🇨🇿

@D1mitr1

Жыл бұрын

His statue still stand on the one of the fabulous gates of Kaliningrad - Korolevskie Vorota (King's Gates)

@ninjagamers2659

Жыл бұрын

Królewiec Poland,

You explained the video very clearly, my respect for that. Also, the comparison photos from 8:25 onwards where shocking, and it made me real sad to see how beautiful that city once was…

@MidnightIam

Жыл бұрын

Look at Iraq before and after USA gave them freedom

@lequack8861

Жыл бұрын

He only took pictures in 1941. Why? By the time Soviet started occupying East Prussia, 90% of building were already gone by strategic bombing. There was none to keep.

@TabbyEgg312

Жыл бұрын

@@lequack8861 This made my brain hurt so bad

@frostyguy1989

Жыл бұрын

The Nazis did more to destroy German culture than anyone. They antagonised and saw everyone around them as inferior... and the fate of Konigsberg is just a taster of the end result.

@teakwondochest3287

Жыл бұрын

@@frostyguy1989 oh ofc,let me guess the nazis are also to blame for the 2+ million women the soviets violated in the first couple days of occupation alone, right? And they caused global warming and the covid. Its totally not like the soviets would have attacked them within a few years.

This video doesn't mention anything about the original Baltic Prussians, who were conquered by Germans because the Baltic Prussians were among the last pagan regions in Europe. The Germans then settled this area and absorbed the Baltic Prussians just with shear numbers. The Baltic Prussian language was closer to Lithuanian, but the Germans erased the Baltic Prussian language as well as their culture a few centuries ago.

@ppr881

Жыл бұрын

This is a US propaganda piece to demonize Russia and revision the results of WW2.

@EQuake2290

Жыл бұрын

Yeah calling Kaliningrad an "old piece of Germany" is like calling the Baltics an "old piece of Russia". Identifying people by who they were once conquered by is not a good look.

@maximus5281

Жыл бұрын

@@EQuake2290 Well and the part of germany called saxony was once slavic. And the vandals a germanic tribe settled in north africa. The hungarians came from the eastern steppes and settled at the danube. There were always population movements.

@Exgrmbl

Жыл бұрын

@@EQuake2290 Well it was an old piece of Germany. Little of that is left, just like there was nothing culturally left of the old prussians when they were assimilated and this became Königsberg. What's done is done, as they say.

@Bllackstaarr

Жыл бұрын

I was looking for a comment mentioning the Baltic Prussians for way too long! Yes it is an ex-german land but boiling it down to that is such a shame. The history of Baltic regions and Prussians specifically is so forgotten and lost it's heartbroken. I know a couple of people in Northern Poland, Lithuania and Kaliningrad trying to restore the language and bring back the memory.

My grandfather was from there, a village called Nassaven (nowadays Lesistoje) in the circle Gumbinnen next to the Rominther Heide. Went with him there on his last trip a couple of years ago. Lots of shared tears and wonderful encounters between the old eastern Prussians and the elderly Russians that got resettled there, very friendly people. Fun fact: Russia actually offered it back to Germany after the collapse of the soviet union but due to Polish concerns it was declined. And nowadays it is again inhabited by a huge German population, the Wolga/ Russia Germans that got send into exile to Kasachstan and Siberia by Stalin moved there in masses ever since the collapse, so we could actually communicate with many new locals in German

@socdumdeosluts9506

3 ай бұрын

Что за сказки.

@EcoZen24

Ай бұрын

It is not true

Always used to wonder why Kaliningrad was just sitting there between Poland/Lithuania and owned by Russia..well now I know

@putlerkaputt9201

Жыл бұрын

As a lithuanian I call it Konigsberg, Kalinin was an evil prick

@kpharck

Жыл бұрын

You don't. Most of the history was whitewashed by the author.

@OmateYayami

Жыл бұрын

In short, 1st because Poles invited Teutonic order, and then Lithuanians denied Khrushchev's offer. Two biggest security mistakes looking at it today if you ask me lol

@anaskhoiri3653

Жыл бұрын

Lithuania should attack it if ukraine fall to russia for stop russian more expansion with Nato help neddle in meat must be removed

Visited Kaliningrad in 2019; gotta say, also the city where Kant lived his whole life. And even when it is now a really Russian city, there are statues of Kant around the place

@mysterioanonymous3206

Жыл бұрын

Man, I've just gotten interested in visiting Russia. Then they invaded Ukraine. I don't think I will within the next few decades. Too bad.

@codeine_tears

Жыл бұрын

@@mysterioanonymous3206 don't u ever visit USA then, if you want to be completely consistent with your logic

@EvgeniPetrov

Жыл бұрын

@@codeine_tears Don't go anywhere with that logic.

@h2squared

Жыл бұрын

@@codeine_tears honestly I wanna visit both

@k3m0t19

Жыл бұрын

@@codeine_tears the difference is USA only invades terrorist countries not like Russia invading peaceful Ukraine

Talking about Kaliningrad, showing picture of Riga lol

Very much enjoyed the math history lesson at the end, even if you could tell it was a brilliant ad from a mile away lol

Great video thank you. My Grandmother and her family lived in Konigsberg until it fell to Russia in 1945 and they evacuated by boat, she spoke of it fondly.

@reeboothemad5514

Жыл бұрын

@@vitus6302 No, we won't. Part of the principle of the european peace order is that borders are not to be moved by force to avoid any further conflict in europe.

@vitus6302

Жыл бұрын

@@reeboothemad5514 convenient that this rule is being enforced after that land was taken from Germany. It’s better to wait to honor that rule after Germany got its land back and maybe even something a little extra on top.

@reeboothemad5514

Жыл бұрын

@@vitus6302 Convenience has nothing to do with that rule. There is practically no place in europe that has not been overtaken or overthrown in one way or another at some point in history. That is in fact the reason for this stance on borders for the EU - it is equally unconvenient for everyone. There is no status quo. Do you really think there is any point in history other than now, that all states could agree upon, that we should reset the borders to? Do you realize that there were times that the majority of Europe was under rule of the Huns or the Romans or Napoleon? Would those times be convienient for you? Who do you think should get to decide about that? Keeping borders unchanged is the only way to achieve lasting peace. And to be blunt -your second sentence is a prime example of why such a rule is needed in the first place.

@vitus6302

Жыл бұрын

@@reeboothemad5514 the Huns are not native to Europe. I would be more inclined to let France have even more German land than they have now than have any German land in Slavic possession. France and Germany have the same ancestors and only split up in the last 1200 years. As far as I am aware Slavs are relative newcomers to Europe arriving here sometime in the 6th century long after the ancestors of the Germans were here. If Slavs can prove that either a) their ancestors arrived here at the same time or before ours or b) their ancestors and ours are the same (not talking about apes here but about our people arriving here at the same time and then through some weird event developing completely different languages) I am happy to let the borders be as they are. But right now it seems to me that a newcomer to Europe has taken possession of my birthright so obviously this will lead to conflict down the way.

@reeboothemad5514

Жыл бұрын

@@vitus6302 You are still trying to arbitrarily set a status quo. Nothing of what you wrote lets you set any borders. You do not have a birthright to the Kaliningrad enclave and neither do I. Your reasoning is just the same as Putins when he argues about Ukraine. Again: The only way to avoid conflict is to accept the borders and not change them by force. The only thing to gain by clinging to borders of the past is a new conflict, possibly including war.

Looking at that part of the map always confused me as a kid. I never knew how a small land mass could be owned by Russia, despite not being connected to it by over 180 miles (300 km).

@JohnnyWednesday

Жыл бұрын

Like America and the much further distant Hawaii?

@austinreed5805

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnnyWednesday Alaska and Hawaii confused me too, as a kid, but then I learned that they were acquired as territories before becoming states.

@khodahh

Жыл бұрын

Or Guam 🤭

@JohnnyWednesday

Жыл бұрын

@@khodahh - Puerto Rico too - and part of Japan and about a thousand other military bases scattered over the world like some kind of James Bond villian lol

@dekaredfire

Жыл бұрын

Historical German Kingdoms/Duchies/Principalities: Amateurs!!!

This was the smoothest brilliant ad integration I've ever seen in internet

I did the Königsberg problem in my discreet mathematics class. Comp Sci FTW. ❤️😳

At 3:42 min you can see an image of "Riga, die Hauptt-Statt in Lifflant" which translates to "Riga, the capital of Livland". Livland is a historic territory in the norhern Balticum, but Riga is not Königsberg. Just noticed it.

@vladivostok853

Жыл бұрын

@@fruityfriend damn this guy is triggered for someone telling a smol fact

@51tomtomtom

Жыл бұрын

same here !

@hughjorgan7871

Жыл бұрын

Amen. Typical CIA/NATO amateurish and sloppy propaganda.

@Mario_With_a_D

Жыл бұрын

True, I thought I was the only one to notice

@hellodolly7989

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it literally says Riga on the image

Lithuania really dodged the biggest possible bullet by refusing to annex Kaliningrad… Russia would definitely attempt a “special military operation” on them if they did 😂

@BichaelStevens

Жыл бұрын

Nah, Latvia or Estonia. Lithuania barely has any coast

@pjhgerlach

Жыл бұрын

If Russia would make a move towards NATO, Kaliningrad is first to be annex by NATO.

@anotheranon3118

Жыл бұрын

@@pjhgerlach Maybe we need to pull a uno reverse card and start saying the territory needs to be liberated and denazified.

@pjhgerlach

Жыл бұрын

@@anotheranon3118 As Russia is closing in, we should 'liberate' and demilitarise Belarus in order to create a buffer state....🤣 Sounds weird when you apply that Russian 'logic'.

@afctaylor12

Жыл бұрын

Considering uk and usa sign a contract guarantee defence of ukraine I would be very surprised if uk or usa would or any nato countries would get involved if russia did invade . And now with sanction in make more likely as they have little to lose once the oil gose in 5 years time

Excellent information. I think that your sources are clearly correct.

One thing we all need to know every time someone attacked Russia they lost a piece of their land to it.

@aboomination897

3 ай бұрын

and germany would've gotten away with it if it weren't for those pesky us americans

Just saw on the news that Russia is accusing Lithuania of blocking passage of people/goods from Kaliningrad through to mainland Russia because of EU sanctions. I had no idea what they were talking about. This video shows up in my recommended feed and now I know. Great explanation of what's going on.

@heikerohmann3364

Жыл бұрын

The passage of people is not blocked. Passage of only special goods, covered by the sanctions, is blocked. However, they can be transported by ship.

@user-uk9sd2ln7f

Жыл бұрын

Lithugaynia

@juanvalero5249

Жыл бұрын

Question wf USA is doing all over the world can you please explain to me...?

@kremzle5688

Жыл бұрын

​@@juanvalero5249 I am from Lithuania and we want US here for example. they are welcome here.

@juanvalero5249

Жыл бұрын

@@kremzle5688 go and join Ucrania cower..

that was the greatest transition into a sponsor segment i've ever seen.

@andreaschiel6819

Жыл бұрын

agreed - and an interesting sponsor too!

@jminkvihubyb

Жыл бұрын

Too bad I just installed sponserblock a few days ago. It just cuts lol

@davidbrooks2375

Жыл бұрын

I was just thinking "is that the place with the bridges?" - did not expect that!

@RBCharger

Жыл бұрын

I don't like being tricked. "Pause the video and try to trace the walk in your mind." Then "This is how Euler solved the problem." And finally "Euler's problem had no solution." I don't remember who the sponsor is - I stopped the video and already blocked them from my mind.

@derekrulez390527

Жыл бұрын

The moment I heard euler, I knew a math problem was forthcoming. Everyone knows hearing euler, Descartes, la grange or Newton means some super complex math problems are coming.

The bridge thing is simple. You can't make a single path crossing each bridge once and only once when more than two nodes have an odd number of bridges connecting to them. This map shows four nodes, all of them with an odd number of bridges. It can't be done. Add one extra bridge (or close a bridge, swim, row a boat, or skate across on the ice when it freezes) so that two of the nodes will have an even number of bridges, and it becomes simple - you start and end at the two nodes that have odd numbers of bridges.

Great video and you keept it very good line of history and with very little politics only facts.

@hroosky

Жыл бұрын

Really? They show Crimea as part of Russia in the first shot! Rubbish video

@lafielanarchy

Жыл бұрын

@@hroosky It is part of Russia. They had referendum and 97% russians live there.

@ojyrecmax3266

Жыл бұрын

@@hroosky Крым наш

I caught the train from Vilnius to Kaliningrad in 2010. To go from such a visually appealing city that was easy to explore to a city where everything looked bleak was depressing. It felt like a place that had been forgotten by Russia. I couldn't find an affordable hotel so I stayed with a lovely lady in her apartment, this was pre Airbnb popularity. Catching local buses was easy, but I couldn't find many local attractions other than the harbour and an amber museum and a WWII bunker. I almost got denied at the border because no one on the train could speak English, it wasn't until I showed my flight ticket to Moscow that I was allowed in. Definitely an all round culture shock.

@D1mitr1

Жыл бұрын

I saw lots of pics \ videos of Kaliningrad that time. You goddamn right, it was sooooooo glooooooomy. But after World Cup 2018 everything changed a lot. Now it's top-5 of city for domestic travel. Come and see by your eyes one time.)

@himalayansalt32

Жыл бұрын

You forgot to include : in your :)

@ihatemylife991

Жыл бұрын

@@himalayansalt32 Russians don't include : in )

@DrScarface74

Жыл бұрын

Why would anyone there speak dirty englese, dude? This colonial dialect should be banned in a decent society. Learn Russian, get out of your medieval cave

@tobystevens3109

Жыл бұрын

@@DrScarface74 I suggest you learn Chinese, it's only a matter of time.

I’ve always wondered this and have looked into it myself. Happy to watch you cover it now

@msj21

Жыл бұрын

follow this chanel blindly they said exactly why russia attacked ukraine for its nnew proven oil reserves and will take kherson as it holds strategic canal to crimea exactly to this day russia want to annex kherson melitpol for crimea water security

Hi. At 3.39 you speak of Konigsberg, but the drawing on screen is that of Rīga....

interesting lesson! thank you :)

It is fascinating to read so many stories in the comments and I always recognize the incredible escape of my grandfather (at that time a little boy) from East Prussia. Nowadays you can't even imagine what it was like back then: Escaped Soviet fire only by repeated luck, almost froze to death several times, found his family again, was rescued from deep snow, sat on the last train out of his town, drove across a (the Nazis had already planted bombs to destroy it) bridge on a train. To this day he has never returned to his homeland, because he cannot bear the fact that all his memories no longer exist or now have Russian names. So many did not survive this escape.

@victorkramer2596

Жыл бұрын

My grandfather immigrated to brazil from Konigsberg in 1923, most of his family that stayed there were killed by the soviets

@Vitalis94

Жыл бұрын

On the other hand, the Germans do visit the Polish part of Prussia - most of my early childhood memories involve Germans visiting and giving me some German made chocolates. Previously it were the children of the Germans that used to share the house with my grandparents, nowadays it’s their grandchildren that visit, but they mostly opt to visit the church, as the house doesn’t exist anymore. I’ve heard of people declining to visit Wrocław because it was Polish, though.

@usathorner609

Жыл бұрын

@@victorkramer2596 Are you upset that Hitler Nazis lost the war

@peter58peter

Жыл бұрын

Little price for wanting to occupy Russia.

@user-yi8rt5zq9e

Жыл бұрын

@@victorkramer2596 I live in Evpatoria , it is in Crimea Germans shot 12560 people here in Januaru 1942 The population of the city was 50-60 thousands before the war What would you expec t ? Every fifth was shot

Hi, I love your videos, but excuse me, shouldnt Crimea be marked as some gray/neutral/contested territory as it is one of the disputed territories in on of the current ongoin wars

@ChilapaOfTheAmazons

Жыл бұрын

Yes, at 0:30 the video shows Crimea as part of Russia which is incorrect: Crimea is a region of Ukraine currently militarily and illegally occupied by Russian troops. An illegal invasion doesn't change the legal border of a country, and indeed almost no one in the world recognizes Crimea as anything but legally part of Ukraine.

@theldraspneumonoultramicro405

Жыл бұрын

agree, its rather insulting to its true owner, Ukraine, to mark it as Russian.

@ferijenifer2611

Жыл бұрын

​@@ChilapaOfTheAmazons Crimea was part of Russia ,in 1954 Nitika khurshchev gavee gift ( creamia) to Ukraine SSR because he opposed Stalin every action. after fall of USSR Russia used savastapol port and pay Ukraine for using but in 2014 after maiden coup Ukraine puppet government suddenly block savastapol port access for Russia , Russia other port freeze in winter season ,we all know NATO want to see weak Russia , that why Russian take back gift (cremia)from Ukraine.

@spyczech

Жыл бұрын

This map is about de-facto where military occupation is represented

@kumatoni5245

Жыл бұрын

@@ferijenifer2611 That settles it then. I'm off to take back all the gifts I gave my ex girlfriend. Sure she'll understand.

Honestly one of the best transitions to an sponsor ever

I have to say, even though I saw it coming, that segway was as relevant as it's possible to make it :D

There are still a number of daily trains running from Minsk to Kaliningrad through Vilnius. There is a long standing international agreement for their transit.

@than217

Жыл бұрын

But can those trains transport Russian weapons, missiles, or military vehicles?

@Ocelot835

Жыл бұрын

@@than217 Don't they transport such things by sea since 2000's?

@anti-emo4721

Жыл бұрын

International agreements with Russia? You should be a comedian!

@petrasvilkas

Жыл бұрын

@@than217 At about the 1:00 mark, Sam mentioned "travel." There are containers and truck trailers shipped, but I don't think there are any open or heavy military transport.

@than217

Жыл бұрын

@@petrasvilkas Yeah, but he didn't mention any long standing international agreement for train travel or what that entailed. Like can Russia send weapons trails along the lines, etc. I was just curious if you knew more about it since you mentioned it in your comment.

Its crazy how much you can learn just from lines on a map

@Balthorium

Жыл бұрын

That’s how I learned the Evil Empire republics used to be independent countries like Latvia or Lithuania and demonstrated their strategy of world domination.

@youthinasia4103

Жыл бұрын

Just think bout 🇬🇧 when they drew up the country lines in the Middle East n all the headaches that created for the tribes living there for generations! Still having to deal with the fallout of those decisions to this day.

@oasis1282

Жыл бұрын

@@Balthorium why are you calling every republic in the ussr evil

@Balthorium

Жыл бұрын

@@oasis1282 I’m not. Russian communists subjugated them. I believe Lithuania was the first to separate from the USSR and celebrates “Lithuania Independence Restoration Day” as they were involuntarily made part of the Soviet Union in 1940. Their independence was re-established in 1990 as the first to declare independence from the Evil Empire. They were victims of communism not evil Russian Marxist perpetrators.

@lucasrem

Жыл бұрын

what did you learned then?

Came here for history, and got some bonus mathematics too! Great video!

Your animation has really increased in quality over the years. Keep up the good work.

@selcukcilek555

Жыл бұрын

Looks sponsored by Pentagon and State department.

@turnipjuice2626

Жыл бұрын

All it needs is a Troy McClure voiceover...

The Kaliningrad Oblast is Russian for the same reason Gibraltar is British: it was won in war.

@tomriley5790

Жыл бұрын

Although Gibraltar's been British for 5-6 times as long.

@byttlejuice145

Жыл бұрын

Simple. Most people don’t understand the power of a strong military. It’s not about how people feel.

@reinbopoizun8570

Жыл бұрын

I don't understand why most people call territories conquered in wartime occupied? Shall we, then, remake the whole world and return it to the old days?

@glacialmobbs7657

Жыл бұрын

@@tomriley5790 ,so what is your point ?

@lunafringe10

Жыл бұрын

exactly, but tell Germany and the Baltic states that. you ll argue till time has passed

It’s worth remembering that the US Office of Naval Intelligence, in 2021, estimated the Baltic Fleet to be - 2 subs, 2 destroyers, and 7 frigates. Which is, um… not much.

@BIGnNASTYboy

Жыл бұрын

Yeah and don't forget that russia has um 6000 nuclear warheads. They um have more than um the US. So um if there's war. Nukes would fly

@Dallas-us6xm

9 ай бұрын

The fleet at Kaliningrad not the entire Russian Navy Northern Fleet.There is no Baltic fleet.

@user-vz2go7of1n

7 ай бұрын

Флот Калининграда не военный ,а торговый ,он ловит рыбу и ее перерабатывает ,военная составляющая незначительна. .

@HalOBrien

7 ай бұрын

@@Dallas-us6xm The ships that sail out of Severomorsk have to steam all the way around Scandinavia to make it to the Baltic Sea. The ships in Kaliningrad do not. Are you saying both groups of ships are the Northern Fleet despite being separated by hundreds of knots? If that’s the organization, fine. It’s just not very intuitive. And at no point did I say the ships at Kaliningrad are the entire Russian Navy. They are a small part of it. They *are* a very isolated group, though. One that’s been completely surrounded by NATO since 2004, peacefully. Which strongly implies NATO has no objections to Russia as long as Russia doesn’t invade someone else.

@HalOBrien

7 ай бұрын

@@user-vz2go7of1n I’ve made some fun of them, relative to other naval groups. But if you’re on a civilian ship, 2 subs, 2 destroyers, and 7 frigates can ruin your whole day. Hell, just 1 can.

My family (Brussat) left Königsberg, Germany in 1867 (6 generations) ago and went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Karl Samuel Brussat is the ancestor of all North American Brussat family members. Brussat is an uncommon German last name meaning Bridge gard.

@iri8973

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Nazi run from Europe ... But they had to be punished for killing 25 millions people.

@henningbartels6245

Жыл бұрын

@@iri8973 there were no nazis in 1867.

@iri8973

Жыл бұрын

You are right...6 generations ago... no Nazi...so, how Russia related to your relatives? What made them leave? DNA test can show where we are all from and some places can be very surprising

@henningbartels6245

Жыл бұрын

@@iri8973 DNA tests are entertaining guesses for the amusements of North Americans. In Central Europe nobody cares and they often make not much sense, since they hardly can distinguish between German, Dutch, Belgian, Luxembourgian, Northern French, Swiss and Austrian. Decedents of people migrated from Königsberg in the 1800's are also not very likely to find Russian traces, since the area was occupied in 1945 by the Soviet Union and populated with Russians starting from 1946. Did you watch the video?

@iri8973

Жыл бұрын

@@henningbartels6245 As I know, Russia got territory because she was a winner in WW2 over European Nazi ...25 millions Russians were killed by Europeans...but Russia forgiven them and free all territories by giving them independence and paid their debts... Today these territory not satisfied and want again to try to go over Russia...well..good luck...but this time Russia has a very powerful weapon and Russia lost her trust to Europe... Maybe this time there wouldn't be Britaine or Washington...it is not a child play ..how far Europe wants to go?

My great grandfather was born in Königsberg, Ostpreußen. We still have old photographs from around 1906 and even some paintings dating back to the 1860s. Königsberg was once regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in eastern Europe, home to Immanuel Kant, David Hilbert and many other great minds. The war wiped it out completely - a painful loss.

@Vitalis94

Жыл бұрын

Being from just south from historical Allenstein (also East Prussia) I find it amusing how most of the Germans who fled East Prussia seem to come from Konigsberg itself. My grandparents used to live in a house with a German family back in the 1960s. There were few waves of Germans who were deported/moved to Germany - first in the 1945, then in the 1950s, and 1960s, last in the 1970s. Being of Polish-Masurian descent and being born and raised in former East Prussia, I have many family member in Germany. Ironically, even the Polish speaking, Protestant Masurians were seen as the "Krauts" and were forced to flee the region after the war. The Masurians are completely gone nowadays, and our dialect died off just because some dumb settlers from Poland proper had seen us as "German". They saw anything non-Catholic and non Polish as bad. I fully sympathize with the Germans that fled Prussia. I consider it my own homeland, my Masurian ancestors colonized it in the 1400s-1600s together with the Germans. And maybe you as German might see me as non-native, ursuper. On one hand, had there been no war, no Hitler, East Prussia would've been German today - and me as well, I think. But things happened differently. It's very sad what happened to the region, and it's still not talked about that much. Even today former East Prussia is seen as it was during the Communist times - It is a reclaimed land and mainstream medio don't talk about how the natives were treated. There had been a "controversial" movie made some years ago, about Polish settlers moving into Prussia after WW2, and how they treated both the Germans and Masurians, but it's very much a taboo topic, and although things are much better, German heritage of the land is very much talked about nowadays, no one wants to talk about the post-war attrocities. These seem as "justified" because the Nazis and the local Germans alike did worse things to Poles, but I personally think that violence doesn't make other violence right. Sure, some of the local Germans were the fifth column before the WW2 - I mean, they created the lists of important Poles and the area and they massacred them - leading to the infamous Bromberg Massacre (very much loved topic by the neonazis nowadays), but I've read some books and even spoke with some old witnesses about the Germans being beaten to death on the streets after the war, just because the Poles were angry.... I mean, humans can be so bad to each other...

@XmarkedSpot

Жыл бұрын

I recently inherited - from my formerly soviet gramps - silverware allegedly once looted from there. I'm a central European bastard living a German life, could i possibly argue that it just returned home?

@Vitalis94

Жыл бұрын

@@XmarkedSpot I mean, Germans talk alot about gaining lost land, and the smartest way to do that would be just... settling there? And slowly taking control, by economically dominating the locals? Yet nowadays no Germans wants to live in Stettin, Breslau, Posen. Instead it is Poles who move to Berlin, Dortmund... I mean, I'm from Prussia, so I don't have the same nostalgia as my fellow Poles have to, say, Lviv or Vilnius, but it is there, so I get it, nostalgia and all... Belonged to you folks and all, now it's gone. Sad. But such nostalgic thinking just... means nothing. If you want it so much, just... live there? But no, you would just prefer having it under the German government's control, all Russians removed, so that you could be happy about it being German. And I get it, having it be inhabited by Russians just isn't the same, right? Other culture, "occupying YOUR land" isn't great, right? But if you really cared about the land, you would, I dunno... Maybe support the local German heritage? All those German graves left behind. German palaces rotting, Teutonic castles in ruin... But yeah, just whine about your inheritance being lost.

@XmarkedSpot

Жыл бұрын

@@Vitalis94 Don't get me wrong, i have no nostalgia for an era i never had witnessed. I might - actually do - have a German surname (since the Habsburgs resettled Swabs to Hungary after kicking out the Ottomans) but if i'm German at all then it's by nurture and culture than mere happenstance. Also, what whining? I just told that i inherited a thing, not lost it.

@Vitalis94

Жыл бұрын

@@XmarkedSpot Don't mind me, I'm just drunk, commenting on a territory I've havent lived in for a past decade anyway, so what do I care :P

Short answer: history happened Long answer: why history happened

@mikespearwood3914

Жыл бұрын

But, but but, what about Crimea? reeeeeeeeeeeee!

Slow clap for the best ad transition I have seen in over a year-possibly ever ...

In what program you animate maps?

@vasekcz

6 ай бұрын

Adobe ae

I remember as a child teaching everyone that Kaliningrad (Or Königsberg, however you wanna call it) was a part of Russia, It was real fun lol

@TestTest-dd4qb

Жыл бұрын

@Don't read profile photo ok

@wavegodxxx420

Жыл бұрын

youre still a child

@Zen-sx5io

Жыл бұрын

@Don't read profile photo Why not?

@sovietunion4484

Жыл бұрын

@@Zen-sx5io it’s a bot who wants attention

@bigdramashow9934

Жыл бұрын

🟡the US Uk campaign to cripple Russian economy and isolate Russia has failed the Ukraines are falling slowly and America is growing more and more desperate. The US UK are acting like a teenager who could not get his way and is smashing all the furniture 🪑 at home 🏡

Being German, this is very well researched content. Thanks! I'm pleasantly surprised that you even mentioned the Russian offer, made by general major Geli Batenin, to return Königsberg/Ostpreußen to Germany, which isn't widely known and only became puplic almost 30 years later in May 2010.

@Vitalis94

Жыл бұрын

There is this very much unknown bit of recolonization efforts made by the German nationalists in the 90s, when they tried to re-settle few villages in Kaliningrad oblast...

@lioneldemun6033

Жыл бұрын

Germany sure knew how to keep things secret even in recent times. But I don't know why I'm speaking of Germany since it's the US puppet master that decides for you.

@thedemonlord8685

Жыл бұрын

hope you weren't more than 3 years old

@jaikee9477

Жыл бұрын

@@Vitalis94 It wasn't 'recolonisation', only a few nutters who wanted to go there.

@Vitalis94

Жыл бұрын

@@jaikee9477 Oh yeah, just some neo-Nazis, sure, but it's still an interesting bit. It also illustrates how dumb "reclaiming" Kaliningrad really is, no (sane) German would ever want to move there.

My grandfather's family is from this area. On citizenship documents they were listed as Prussian but in the census documents, it always said German. Imagine seeking family records when everything was destroyed & all the German-speaking Prussians were kicked out of their own country.

@iri8973

Жыл бұрын

Before German was kicked out ..they were killing 25 millions ..Russian children was burnt in stove ... Your Germans were lucky that Russia didn't do to them what they have done to Russia.

@valerieleonard572

8 ай бұрын

Same here. I can’t find much information at all before they came to America

@amuroray2505

7 ай бұрын

Prussia just like any state in history brought destruction or societal growth. In its final years it obviously brought about its own destruction if what ultimately ended it was the german revolution that toppled its monarchy. Like the french, like the british at one point before they brought it back, and like the russians. The peasants were pissed and took out the monarchy themselves.

@Scaw

Ай бұрын

Yes, too bad. But that's what happens when you lose a war.

if you start on the island its easy to cross all bridges once and only once. maybe not be best "loop" though

I admire your transition from Königsberg to the bridge problem to graph theory to your sponsor... this was literally "Brilliant" :-D

According to the Statistisches Bundesamt, in total, out of a pre-war population of 2,490,000, about 500,000 died during the war, including 210,000 military dead and 311,000 civilians dying during the wartime flight, postwar expulsion of Germans and forced labor in the Soviet Union; 1,200,000 managed to escape to the western parts of Germany, while about 800,000 pre-war inhabitants remained in East Prussia in summer 1945.

@jordanseifarth1325

Жыл бұрын

I believe the last ethnic German's were expelled from what became the Kaliningrad Oblast in 1951 though the majority were gone by the late 40s.

@lukei6255

Жыл бұрын

That's the price you pay for being a Nazi. Remember these Nazis killed and enslaved many more people.

@leoe.5046

Жыл бұрын

@@jordanseifarth1325 Yep, that is true. They got deported to east germany

Looking back on this video roughly a year and a half after it was posted, judging by how thinly Russia's forces are stretched on multiple fronts, I could see NATO claiming Kaliningrad for Poland or Lithuania without much resistance. Of course, there are probably many factors that would make that difficult.

@justinthebeau2590

3 ай бұрын

The Winter stopped Napoleon and Hitlers armies

@KingChayle87

3 ай бұрын

@@justinthebeau2590 yeah, when they went for Moscow. I'm saying Kaliningrad, which is surrounded by Poland and Lituania

thanks , you include crimea in Russia ..

as a CompSci I could appreciate the 7 bridges problem at the end! Good vid overall too :)

This is an excellent video on the history of Kaliningrad! THANK YOU!

@hroosky

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps. Not sure why they want to promote Crimea as part of Russia though? Morons

Stalin was a genius for keeping kalingrad oblast Russian Soviet.

@mer3abec

4 күн бұрын

Nope. He did mistake. He could keep entire East Prussia part given to Poland and also est part of Germany also given to Poland. and huge part of Lithuania. Klaipeda and Vilnus.

I didn't knew all that. Even through my ancestors all come from german parts that aren't german anymore. There is still a german dish that is called "Königsberger Klöpse". Now I know where this name might comes from 😂

Königsberg was a nice historical city. It's somehow crazy, that the whole land was flattened to the ground and rebuilt as a random Russian city like there was nothing before but empty land. Very sad, that all the work of generations was trashed.

@Alicja1Fenigsen

Жыл бұрын

very much like what we see today.. the real problem is not so much this bloated state or that, it is the very idea of empires

@honourisnotbought.4225

Жыл бұрын

This is due to Hitler. Not the Russians.

@simhathecat

Жыл бұрын

If was "was flattened to the ground" and ultimately taken in consequence of what? The Nazi Germany's (and half of the Western world's comfortably controled by it) trecherous onslaught on the USSR and all the horrendous crimes they had committed, and the millions of lifes they had taken. Those crimes were the subject of the fully legitimate and recognized Nuremberg trials. Remember that before engaging in pathetic lamentations...

@Alicja1Fenigsen

Жыл бұрын

@@simhathecat true.. still, I think it can be considered legitimate to regret the destruction of cultural capital amassed through centuries - in the long run, that belongs to everybody and to the future regardless of our silly fetishes about borders -

@Alicja1Fenigsen

Жыл бұрын

if that was the only thing crazy about that story...

Instead of people talking about Russia attacking out of Kaliningrad by land and sea. Think of this. There is one dredged channel out to the Baltic and the Vistula Lagoon is only 17 feet deep. A single ship scuttled in the channel would cut off the city.

@tams805

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention the idea that Russia gains any real control at sea or even in the air from a small coastline is laughable.

@Vitalis94

Жыл бұрын

There are 2 (soon to be 3) canals on the lagoon, 1 is in Russian hands, but there is another by the Klaipeda harbor, and the Poles are currently building their own as well.

@ara9914

Жыл бұрын

Even if they somehow managed to get out of the lagoon... the baltic sea can easily be cut off by Denmark, Germany and Norway (which are all part of the NATO) from the Atlantic. It'd be only a matter of time for the NATO countries to push the russians back. Of course nukes make the question for time-management rather useless for Europe but looking at the Russian offensive against Ukraine none can be sure those nukes even have the fuel to travel to Warsaw, much less Berlin.

@dubravkokovacevic3489

Жыл бұрын

​@@ara9914 Yes, a great idea. We should provoke Russia to find out what's their nuclear arsenal made of. I bet it's very obsolete.

@andykerr3803

Жыл бұрын

@@dubravkokovacevic3489 To hear these people talk, they sound like an invasive species of seaweed more than proponents of the great and ever expanding NATO... Then again, pretty much the same thing 🤔

Germany really changed after the war. Amazing they sought out their unity and ensured their neighbours felt protected during the process.

The old name of this area was Kurland, it was the first settlement area of Germans who came to Europe via the Don rivers from the Caucasus from Kurland in 1700 BC.

@Alicja1Fenigsen

Жыл бұрын

hardly "Germans" back then, possibly not even Goths, little is known -

@siegfriedlechler7412

Жыл бұрын

@@Alicja1Fenigsen This is the beach of amber. In Egyptian tombs from 2000BC. Amber was found because this area was an Egyptian colony. From 1700BC. It became an Assyrian colony, as inscriptions from Assyria confirm. This land was the Urland of Prussia, West Prussia. the name was Bor-ussia. that means Bor = God Bor and Assia = Assyrians. Assyrians = Prussia = Assia = Germans. The Suebians are Assyrians. The whole region was Suebisch = Swabia: 400 BC. the Suevi ruled all of Germany from East Prussia. They built Danzig named after their ancestors Dedan. Dedan was the grandson of Abraham and his wife Chetura. The whole empire was called Daucon. They ruled the polish Lygians = Lechens, and then came south and burned Rome. After that they moved to Portugal. The Goths were the neighbors of the Daucones and were the enemies of the Daucons. Goths and Suebi ,both moved to the Danube and were always at war.

@Alicja1Fenigsen

Жыл бұрын

@@siegfriedlechler7412 you do have a beautiful, poetic soul

@siegfriedlechler7412

Жыл бұрын

@@Alicja1FenigsenThe Slavs don't know Germans, but Nem... ...etchka, etc. Where does the name nem come from? It comes from the river Memel, where the Nem.. lived. Who was Neme? He was a German hero named Nemeth who lived in 1700 BC. sailed from the Baltic to Ireland. After that, Ireland was also German for 200 years.

@Alicja1Fenigsen

Жыл бұрын

@@siegfriedlechler7412 Pure poetry. Nemec in Slavic means mute, like in "not speaking our, real language". You should try the fantasy genre, I sense some aptitude.

I'm Brazilian, and my grandparents had to flee Königsberg right after the second world war, this video gives a good explanation of the importance and why it happened. Unfortunately I lost my grandparents recently to covid-19.

@oskar2001isawesome

Жыл бұрын

Sorry for your loss. 🪦🕊

@user-de4mr7uk8d

Жыл бұрын

I hope they rest in peace

@Annastylez

Жыл бұрын

So sorry 🥺

@aterovis3693

Жыл бұрын

Nazi Germany + South America =? Thats suspicious.

@tony_mt24

Жыл бұрын

"Meus p'esames, Lukas." (My condolences.) Stay strong, bro!

Next video idea: Why does Bhutan only recognize 54 countries?

@The_Brazilian_Weeb

Жыл бұрын

because they are chad

@JimboRustles

Жыл бұрын

@@The_Brazilian_Weeb No, Chad is a completely different country in Africa

@acousticavoiska9461

Жыл бұрын

@@JimboRustles Bruh

@The_Brazilian_Weeb

Жыл бұрын

@@James-wu6qh the chad chad & chad buthan vs The virgin PRC & ROC

@danielbishop1863

Жыл бұрын

@@The_Brazilian_Weeb : Bhutan doesn't recognize Chad.

From 3:38 "How did this become Kaliningrad?" While showing multiple 16th to 18th century paintings all of Riga (the capital of Latvia) and not Königsberg (now Kaliningrad). How can I take such "documentory" seriously, if it depicts different things than it talks about?

At 7:42 you have the wrong Russian flag(s). When Lithuania rejected the offer, the Soviet red flag was still used (as you know, of course. I am aware that this was just an oversight).

@reyods

Жыл бұрын

Using the Black/Red/Gold-Flag for the Third Reich is also wrong. It might be because of demonetization when using the swastika, bur still.

There is a country surrounded by South Africa (with little to no contact to the outside world if not via South Africa), called Lesotho. Could you please make a video on how it came to happen that this country is inside another country…

funny how Lithuania just cut the train connection between Russia and Kaliningrad four days after this uploaded....

@ninjagamers2659

Жыл бұрын

Królewiec*

best transition into an ad ever

This doesn't need a 18 min video, during WW2, the soviet union gained east prussia (Kaliningrad) The Russian SSR, owning moscow, it offered the land the Poland and the Lithuanian SSR, both declined. They never asked germany, dispite that making more sense. The land was just annexed into the Russian SSR.

@kap1526

2 ай бұрын

All his videos can be cut down into one minute videos. That’s not the point.

@williamnovak6869

2 күн бұрын

Why would they as Germany? Germany last the war and was in no position to agree or disagree.

@KodiakBearThatComments

2 күн бұрын

@williamnovak6869 Well, it had a huge German majority (Most likey) and they also had historical claims on the region.

I find it ironic Hitler after WWI had the goal of reuniting the old German lands and then post WWII, Germany got even smaller than it was before.

@Suksass

Жыл бұрын

@@Fusion_4000 They were always one of the strongest European countries. Even in WW2 after being weakened after ww1, they were hard to fight against.

@robosergTV

Жыл бұрын

same as what happened to USSR and what will happen to fascist modern Russia

@damianwollai8831

Жыл бұрын

Thats why being a nationalistic German and liking hitler is the dumbest thing one could be. If you are a real patriotic German, than you hate hitler with a burning passion.

@germanicelt

Жыл бұрын

He went too far and basically exceeded his mandate in declaring war on the USSR. Before that, he did not declare war on any country other than Poland.

@aranos6269

Жыл бұрын

He achieved opposite of his aims. Jews got their own state, half Europe run by bolshevics and Germany bombed to rubble. If it was not for western sector, ie west Germany being pumped full of money from USA and Britain via Marshall plan and occupation forces spending, west Germany would still be poor and ruined like East Germany was

I need to add a note to this. Once Sweden and Finland's ascension to NATO is complete, the official name of "The Baltic Sea" changes legally to "NATO Lake".

@flawyerlawyertv7454

Жыл бұрын

Really?

@user-iz3dj2lk8e

Жыл бұрын

Уахахаха, что куришь дружок?)))

@tabletgenesis3439

9 ай бұрын

Bruh

@MichaSwierczynski-eb7nz

8 ай бұрын

@@user-iz3dj2lk8e Ye you can pack up your stuff from there, especially now when Finland joined NATO - they would annihilate you with artillery fire they posses between Helsinki and St. Petersbourg. Time to pack Baltic fleet and to move it to Murmansk, isn't it? Good luck with ice and winter, we both know why you need access to Baltic desperately.

@cerdomachista

8 ай бұрын

bro 😅

Why do you show an old picture of Riga (it says Riga on the picture itself) when talking about Königsberg?

0:43 I think you meant to say 370 km as the Nazgul flies……😁😂

Do you have a new mic ? Your voice sounds different (and more "calm"). Anyway I like it !

Damn, that transition from talking about the city, to Euler's bridge problem in the city, then the sponsor Brilliant was so smooth. Excellent writing.

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?

@benktlofgren4710

5 ай бұрын

You got basically everything wrong there mate, try to use a VPN and search for real education instead.

It's even older part of Poland

It's really mad, that I'm currently less than an hour away from this border to kaliningrad in Poland. In gdansk and this video gets uploaded as I was thinking about this the other day 🤔 brilliant video as always!

@Clickty

Жыл бұрын

Danzig and Kaliningrad is Germany.

@Clickty

Жыл бұрын

Poland is germany.

@neilmcintyre5559

Жыл бұрын

It was German yes. Though its part of poland now. Just have a look on the map and I'm sure you'll find it within the polish border 🤡

@Clickty

Жыл бұрын

@@neilmcintyre5559 did i ask. Its rightfully german. I dont care who owns it now. Its germany. I dont believe in a poland. I believe poland should be split between austria russia and germany like a few hundred years back. I dont believe in your existence at all,

@neilmcintyre5559

Жыл бұрын

@@Clickty nobody asked for your opinion 😂 last time I checked it's wrong based on the truth. Poland has its independence for a reason. Go back to crying in the corner of your room and deal with it 😎

Was not expecting Euler to get involved with this that was quite a twist

In fact, East Prussia was divided between the USSR and Poland after the war, with Poland receiving 2/3 of it and the USSR 1/3. Later, a huge piece of the German Democratic Republic was also given to the Poles. So, all of Western Poland is essentially Eastern Germany. However, the Poles really don't like to talk about this topic.

Fun fact Russia and Pluto have roughly the same surface area

I was born in Kaliningrad. My family still lives there, and are effectively trapped. Here's a full breakdown of the extended history: It has a fascinating history previous to being a German State. The land itself is called Prussia, and they got that name thanks to outsiders generalizing the many tribes into a single people - the Prus. First, it was inhabited by one of the last pagans Europe, the Old Prussians. They consisted of many different tribes with a similar nature-oriented religion, worshiping in sacred groves (Alkhos). The greatest of these groves, Romuva, is thought to be where the city if Kaliningrad stands today. Their shores were unremarkable, aside from the presence of the rivers which could reach the Black Sea, and the amber which washed ashore. This made it a desirable trading partner, and the amber was even more valuable than gold at one point. A lot if Baltic amber can be found in the Vatican, due to its electrostatic properties (witchcraft). Post 1217, it was subject to multiple crusades, requested by the Poles, who wanted to get rid of their annoying neighbors and acquire a little more land. The first of the many red-bricked Teutonic castles to be built was Torun, located in modern day Poland. The Old Prussians held out against the knights surprisingly well, but they ultimately took far too long to unite in greater numbers, and one by one the tribes fell. Many Old Prussians who were not killed or converted fled North to Lithuania. The Old Prussians ultimately were one of the primary reasons Lithuania was able to hold out as Pagans for so long, as they bought them time to unite and organize. They would burn down the sacred groves to enforce the conversion of the pagans, often building structures atop of where the sacred (mythical evergreen) oak trees once stood. You can actually see this all across Europe, as some of the oldest churches will have ancient oaks adjacent to them - because that is where the pagans used to worship, and what was more effective than literally building a church on top of it? In Romuva's case, they build a great red brick castle, Koenigsberg. It has since been lost to ww2, but even 20 yrs ago you could still find the red bricks scattered by its ruins. Under the Teutonic Knights, which consisted almost entirely of Germans, the region welcomed in more Germanic peoples (the Poles didn't get much). It was a Papal State, the region's leadership answering directly to the Pope himself. Eventuality sustaining this region was too much of a financial toll for the Papacy, so it became Prussia. The knights became nobility. And then Prussia became part of Germany, and the rest is covered in the video. But when people ask me who Kaliningrad really belongs to, i tell them that Lithuania, not Germany, Poland, or Russia, is the best fit. This is because the surviving Old Prussians fled there. Their blood, along with their culture, has persisted there the strongest. The region is not like Germany, Russia, or Poland. It is a true Baltic State. There was actually an independence movement in the early 2000s, as the region was being sorely neglected by Moscow. Of course, very quickly funding managed to find its way to Kaliningrad after that.

@seushimarejikaze1337

Жыл бұрын

yeah kaliningrad/koenigsberg/królewiec should belong to itself, if people living there they wish it. germans, russians, poles and prusians had their claim on it, but its a long gone past.

@Patop2002

Жыл бұрын

The land belongs to the people who inhabit it, not who inhabited 100 years ago. The population is mostly Russians now so it should belong to Russia, not Lithuania.

@afookingarcher7195

Жыл бұрын

@@seushimarejikaze1337 I agree, independence suits this place best. For so long, it has been stifled, shackled, and told how to be. The Church forced the Christianization upon the tribes. The Prussians forced Germanization. The Germans forced Imperialism. The Soviets forced the Germans to leave, and filled it with Russians. And now the Russians, like the Soviets, Prussians, and Teutonic Knight before them, refuse to allow excavation of Old Prussian sites. We are missing an entirely unexplored segment of European history for the Eastern Baltic, and it is nothing short of a travesty. I've done much research on the Old Prussians, and let me tell you, even with the very limited scope of information available, they were a people worth remembering. They gendered the trees, they had a fondness for snakes and mushrooms, they burnt a 3rd of their treasures from war in their groves, and they had an affinity for horses that was entirely unique to the region. It was expressly forbidden to hunt animals within the groves, even if it wandered into it mid-hunt. Breaking sticks on the ground was a punishable act. Heck, the whole supposed justification for the crusades was because a holy man, while welcomed into the homes and villages of the Old Prussians, would not listen when they told him the groves were off limits.

@afookingarcher7195

Жыл бұрын

@@Patop2002 I spoke in a context of inheritance. But it is my belief that Russia is not the rightful inheritor, even within the context you set. They may be Russian by blood, but Kaliningrad has long been isolated from the rest of Russia. She would be a fitting independent State of Prussia. Or Baltika.

@Patop2002

Жыл бұрын

@@afookingarcher7195 Prussia doesn't exist anymore and will never again. The Russians rightly inherited it from all the fleeing Germans after they reaped what they sowed. If Lithuanians had populated the area sooner, or even fought for it, they may had contested the title. But they didn't. An independent Kaliningrad would also be weird since culturally they're totally Russian, and as such would mostly associate with Russia, which they already do by being a part of Russia. It's not even like Russian-Ukrainians. These guys are 100% Russian, like Americans in Guam.

I noticed what you did with Crimea. Usually, other channels on here avoid doing that because of its sensitivity.

@SaracenCount

Жыл бұрын

@@smokex3652 Well, maps were drawn, Crimea is in Ukraine. The way you say, it's like the whole invasion is justified.

@paradoxmo

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that immediately. Objectively, that is a mistake. It should be marked disputed with stripes or some other thing if he wants to include it at all.

@romaroalte2645

Жыл бұрын

It's like the whole invasion with all the terroristic acts and genocide is justified.

@JohnnyWednesday

Жыл бұрын

It's Russian - the people voted to be Russian and several external polls have since been taken in the region - by the UN, America - and all of them show about 80% of the population think of themselves as Russian and are happy that Crimea is Russian. The right to self determination is the most sacred right of any people - if you would take away that right to score some points against Russia? then you're worse than you claim they are.

@lunakid12

Жыл бұрын

@@smokex3652 Sure, but the problem is the authoritarian manner Putin just forcefully took it back, blatantly disregarding international agreements made in the hope that parties would remain civilized (as has become the norm on this half of the world... or so we thought). Countries don't just go and take back lands randomly, with the rest of the world cheering, you know, that's not how it works.

Are we going to talk about how he included crimea in the map? It doesn’t matter that they occupied it crimea is not a part of Russia

@sho1sqracken

Жыл бұрын

In Crimea 80% Russians, 7% ukranians All bodys from Crimea wanna be Russians

@Proxymated

Ай бұрын

Russia talked about it plenty already, what did you miss?

Königsberg (Kaliningrad) was a city constructed in 1255 by the Old Prussians and Teutonic Order, later in became a German City. Prussian was a culture there too but then it died out and the Prussians living their went extinct or became German making it a 99% German city. With all the patriotic culture symbols and images in Königsberg, it made it a province of many military agriculture and they constructed factories there when the industrial era started so it was more of a stronghold with lots of German knights or troops guarding the city. The Teutonic Knights were still there too, but not a pleasant entity to see you know, a person wearing a crusader or medieval helmet and having a Teutonic symbol on their armor visible walking and all that..

It be nice to do a video on connecting the islands of the Malay Archipelago.

@draphotube4315

Жыл бұрын

connecting?

@haikalmiftah2529

Жыл бұрын

If it ever happend, it can only connect Malay Peninsula to Sumatra Island, the rest is impractical (either too far away between two landmass or too dangerous due to geographical feature).