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

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  • čas přidán 11. 01. 2022
  • A German city before World War Two and geographically disconnected from the rest of Russia, Kaliningrad remains a mystery to many mainland Russians and their European neighbours.
    How does a 50-year-old unfinished building help explain the complicated history of the city and inspire the restoration of other nearby ruins?
    Video by Irina Sedunova
    Produced by Anna Bressanin
    #bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews

Komentáře • 258

  • @BBC_Global
    @BBC_Global  Před 2 lety +59

    Hello! There are English subtitles available for this video, and they can be switched on using the subtitle/captions button on the video.

    • @cdl0
      @cdl0 Před 2 lety +2

      Please 'pin' your comment.

    • @julianshepherd2038
      @julianshepherd2038 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @usedtruckemporiumusedtruck4166
      @usedtruckemporiumusedtruck4166 Před rokem

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

    • @arekarek1991
      @arekarek1991 Před 10 měsíci

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

  • @kutter_ttl6786
    @kutter_ttl6786 Před 2 lety +106

    It's good that there are people like Vasiliy and Anastasia who are willing to be the caretakers of Kaliningrad's history. Much respect for them and others like them.

    • @toi_techno
      @toi_techno Před 10 měsíci

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

    • @GruenerGummistiefel
      @GruenerGummistiefel Před 10 měsíci +1

      Thank you to Vasily and Anastasia

    • @brooklynforge4591
      @brooklynforge4591 Před 9 měsíci +2

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

    • @gate7clamp
      @gate7clamp Před 9 měsíci

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

  • @daniels123456
    @daniels123456 Před 8 měsíci +12

    Königsberg was preceded by a Sambian (Old Prussian tribe) fort called Twangste (Prussian word tvinksta means a pond made by a dam).[21] During the conquest of the Sambians by the Teutonic Knights in 1255, Twangste was destroyed and replaced by a new fortress named Königsberg in the honor of Bohemian king Ottokar II.

  • @SlavicCoffee
    @SlavicCoffee Před rokem +26

    Those old bricks in the hallway look like they are the original old bricks from the castle.. ( that was common to reuse old German brick due to lack of funding. building. And overall materials. )

  • @ed.mil.5029
    @ed.mil.5029 Před rokem +11

    Jeezzz, how ugly this once beautiful city became... very sad.

  • @kugul1683
    @kugul1683 Před 2 lety +34

    I really hope they preserve the remaining buildings and also get support from the government!

  • @SJR_Media_Group
    @SJR_Media_Group Před 10 měsíci +31

    The Soviets really 'pushed' Engineering and Architecture. Many examples of successful projects completed. This building, had it been completed and occupied had many cutting edge features. Every unit had a view, lots of natural sunlight, fresh air, and great location. The breakup of Soviet Union caused many projects like this to be abandoned.
    For every great design, there were others not so good. The joke about the 'Soviet Look' for government, business, and residential buildings came from use of concrete. Some of those 'jokes' are still standing and will last another 500 years. 'Ugly' is in the eye of the beholder.
    Agree, no one gets why Kaliningrad. It looks and feels German, not Russian. They better get busy and put gold Onion Dome Roofs on top of more buildings. Nothing says 'Russian' like a gold onion dome.

    • @rossinvictus
      @rossinvictus Před 10 měsíci

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

    • @jamie.777
      @jamie.777 Před 10 měsíci

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

    • @arnoldroy4072
      @arnoldroy4072 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Hahah....well said my friend

    • @SJR_Media_Group
      @SJR_Media_Group Před 9 měsíci

      Thanks for comment. @@arnoldroy4072

    • @kingjoe3rd
      @kingjoe3rd Před 8 měsíci +2

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

  • @edwardcicco7406
    @edwardcicco7406 Před 10 měsíci +17

    Demolition work of the soviet Palace began on May 18 , 2023 ...

  • @tschibasch
    @tschibasch Před 10 měsíci +18

    Very interesting video. Thank you! I am impressed that young Russians are taking an interest in the place and doing what they can to restore some of it. It was, a long time ago, an amazing city. But the horrors and stupidity of war changed all of that and only a little history was left.

  • @2ndfloorsongs
    @2ndfloorsongs Před 2 lety +52

    Oh, cool, I've just learned how to switch subtitles on... It would probably be a good idea to mention this at the beginning as the first time I clulessly watched the whole thing without subtitles. But it wasn't that bad. The sound of the Russian language mixing with the view... very atmospheric. (And no subtitles to distract from the images.)

  • @Kyle-il9ye
    @Kyle-il9ye Před 9 měsíci

    Always wondered what was there! Interesting stuff.

  • @paolomesseca8679
    @paolomesseca8679 Před 11 měsíci +11

    a soviet version of the typological folly that hit architecture and architects during the seventies ( we have here in Italy some "good" examples in Milan and Naples)

    • @Game_Hero
      @Game_Hero Před 10 měsíci

      with some ethnic cleansing urges in the mix.

    • @TheLaXandro
      @TheLaXandro Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @NickAndriadze
    @NickAndriadze Před 9 dny

    The House of Soviets has already been demolished. An iconic building in the heart of Kaliningrad that stood abandoned for decades before being torn down? Yes, time truly is a flat circle.

  • @intel386DX
    @intel386DX Před 10 měsíci +1

    So sad that it is never used .

  • @antonkohl7343
    @antonkohl7343 Před 2 lety +14

    The background music is far too loud

  • @joemaloney1019
    @joemaloney1019 Před rokem +23

    It would be good if Konigsberg would become an open city allowing Russiahs, Prussians, Polish and Baltic people to live there. To rebuild the city to its former glorious, it was a very beautiful city.

    • @ianstrong3588
      @ianstrong3588 Před 10 měsíci

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

    • @toi_techno
      @toi_techno Před 10 měsíci

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

    • @avtoera
      @avtoera Před 9 měsíci +6

      Konigsberg is Germany!

    • @mercilyngono8955
      @mercilyngono8955 Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @Otto_M
      @Otto_M Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @edgarpina2665
    @edgarpina2665 Před 2 lety +12

    Came for the brutalism and stayed for the fascinating story. Also surprised by some of the lazzy ppl complaining and winning about translations and subtitles, grow up!

  • @viznut
    @viznut Před 8 měsíci

    I'm delighted that the video uses subtitles instead of an annoying English voiceover. That kind of abomination is still far too common among Anglophone media companies.

  • @charlesburgoyne-probyn6044

    It's interesting that the Russian population has adopted the German buildings. Even had reenactments of the Teutonic knights. The German population was a colonial settlement in Baltic people's lands so maybe it's the fate of the place the southern part was awarded to Poland and populated with Poles from Belarus

    • @toi_techno
      @toi_techno Před 10 měsíci

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

    • @boilingwateronthestove
      @boilingwateronthestove Před 9 měsíci +2

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

    • @Acidlib
      @Acidlib Před 9 měsíci

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

    • @TheLaXandro
      @TheLaXandro Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @brettonwoods9856
      @brettonwoods9856 Před 5 měsíci

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

  • @thebob95035
    @thebob95035 Před 8 měsíci

    The background music is louder than the dialog in most places. Is this a CZcams issue?

  • @TBfilms657
    @TBfilms657 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Does anyone know what the name of the Prussian door Instagram is?

  • @Crewger16
    @Crewger16 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Wait? That looks like the thing I built in Minecraft!

  • @KPZivot
    @KPZivot Před 2 lety

    Till now I don't know this place

  • @benjaminkurilla3943
    @benjaminkurilla3943 Před 6 měsíci

    It is now being demolished. Finally.

  • @2packs4sure
    @2packs4sure Před 2 lety +4

    I'm gonna turn the subtitles on. I'm only 30 seconds in but damn,,,, you got her way buried in the mix and she's talking way too fast...

  • @fr2ncm9
    @fr2ncm9 Před 2 lety +1

    If you want to hear the translation, click on the CC tab

  • @chrislanejones
    @chrislanejones Před 2 lety +10

    I really hope they keep the House of Russia, and keep making those cool shirts too.

    • @brettonwoods9856
      @brettonwoods9856 Před 5 měsíci

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

    • @krackerlife5124
      @krackerlife5124 Před 5 měsíci

      They already demolished it

  • @gigteevee6118
    @gigteevee6118 Před 2 lety +14

    Audio mix is a mess, ruining otherwise great content.

    • @Andrew25Davies
      @Andrew25Davies Před 10 měsíci

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

  • @beringei1013
    @beringei1013 Před 8 měsíci

    Apparently they don’t need to go far to see the building but by the time they get there it dark, we can’t even trust the news reporters😂

  • @davidhumphrey1558
    @davidhumphrey1558 Před 11 měsíci +2

    I remember the first time I saw a church in ruins in Berlin, I could feel the impact of the bomb. It was in the night, And I never saw anything like it before. Never forget.

  • @ShamileII
    @ShamileII Před 10 měsíci

    It would have been nice to have an English translation for all the dialog.

    • @bbenjoe
      @bbenjoe Před 10 měsíci +3

      Turn on the subtitles. ;)

  • @zynjnn277
    @zynjnn277 Před 2 lety +2

    Hay Yaa'z.... I want a t-shirt. Any shop info?

  • @lokesh303101
    @lokesh303101 Před 6 měsíci

    Better Sell it for Real Estate as they do renovate the Building for Hotels and OfficeSpaces and Restaurants for Resale.

    • @Oxut
      @Oxut Před 9 dny

      that building was not safe to operate

  • @brawurst_not_sausages
    @brawurst_not_sausages Před 2 lety +5

    The buckingham palace of soviet 🤭🤣

  • @madzen112
    @madzen112 Před 10 měsíci +1

    I think it looks great tbh

  • @Stulidupka
    @Stulidupka Před 8 měsíci

    Why in the description of history completely omitted the Polish period?

  • @fresquez
    @fresquez Před 2 lety +3

    Anyone know what is her doors of East Prussia Instagram account?

  • @b_uppy
    @b_uppy Před 2 lety +13

    English subtitles would be nice, otherwise what is the point of posting as a BBC Reel???
    If you turn on CC, it does translate.

    • @peter_meyer
      @peter_meyer Před 2 lety +5

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

    • @b_uppy
      @b_uppy Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @invisi.
      @invisi. Před 2 lety +5

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

    • @choncord
      @choncord Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @b_uppy
      @b_uppy Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @Botex1776
    @Botex1776 Před 9 měsíci

    Don't forget after the first war 1914 no borders can change legally because contract documents say that without a peacecontract to close the war time no borders can Change bit a lot people forget the history about this fact from the contract 😅

  • @hinnantp
    @hinnantp Před 8 měsíci +1

    Adopted our Son in Kaliningrad in 1999. This brings back so many memories.

  • @Jaggerbush
    @Jaggerbush Před 8 měsíci

    This is difficult to enjoy entirely unless you are fluent in English and russia. Why no caption or voice over?

  • @laurenceskinnerton73
    @laurenceskinnerton73 Před 10 měsíci

    Rebuild the castle and destroy the house of Soviets!

  • @tobiwan001
    @tobiwan001 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Königsberg was not just any German city. It was the historic home of the Prussians, the Teutonic Knights and it plays an important role in German history. It had one of the oldet universities in Europe and is the birthplace of Immanuel Kant.
    Today only a handful of buildings and nothing of the culture remains. It's lost forever, but I think it is great that at least tiny bits get preserved by individuals. The Russian state just wants to continue its Russification of everything in Europe.

  • @TheHuston882
    @TheHuston882 Před 9 měsíci

    H10 megabuilding

  • @gabriele7381
    @gabriele7381 Před 2 lety +79

    Russians occupied a land it was not theirs and filled it with the dullest, most terrible architecture. No respect whatsoever for what it once was one of the greatest cities in the world, total disregard for what is not German, but human heritage. What will be remembered of their contribution to the city? A crumbling brutalist building?
    I'm just glad some people are trying to restore some of the buildings left, it's a shame local authorities are not supporting this.

    • @edgarpina2665
      @edgarpina2665 Před 2 lety +11

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

    • @ronaldp7573
      @ronaldp7573 Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @copiumdealer1
      @copiumdealer1 Před 2 lety +1

      Nazi boy take your pill and calm down.

    • @gabriele7381
      @gabriele7381 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @clashoflands
      @clashoflands Před 2 lety

      @@copiumdealer1 Stalin killed innocent people due to starvation

  • @markvolker1145
    @markvolker1145 Před rokem +4

    Ummm no Kaliningrad was originally settled by Baltic tribes!

    • @kentrosaurusboi3909
      @kentrosaurusboi3909 Před 10 měsíci +2

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

    • @goranpesevski2121
      @goranpesevski2121 Před 10 měsíci

      So only German ocupiers history matters?

    • @kentrosaurusboi3909
      @kentrosaurusboi3909 Před 10 měsíci

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

    • @goranpesevski2121
      @goranpesevski2121 Před 10 měsíci

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

    • @kentrosaurusboi3909
      @kentrosaurusboi3909 Před 10 měsíci

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

  • @catarmy6927
    @catarmy6927 Před 11 měsíci +29

    This is symbolizing Russia. Looks strong from outside but empty inside. 😅

    • @12226
      @12226 Před 10 měsíci +9

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

    • @kentrosaurusboi3909
      @kentrosaurusboi3909 Před 10 měsíci +17

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

    • @12226
      @12226 Před 10 měsíci +6

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

    • @kentrosaurusboi3909
      @kentrosaurusboi3909 Před 10 měsíci +13

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

    • @12226
      @12226 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@kentrosaurusboi3909 ?????

  • @daidracofosgate518
    @daidracofosgate518 Před 2 lety +5

    Neat. A lot of places in the world are destroying statues, buildings etc. The Americas, the middle east, the far east etc. Yet memories of terrible times are being preserved here. Wish everyone could see history as something to preserve.

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @baqaqipekhebi7148
      @baqaqipekhebi7148 Před 2 lety +2

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

    • @mr.purple1779
      @mr.purple1779 Před 2 lety +5

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

    • @texaswunderkind
      @texaswunderkind Před 10 měsíci +3

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

    • @daidracofosgate518
      @daidracofosgate518 Před 10 měsíci +1

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

  • @polaroidandroidjeff6383
    @polaroidandroidjeff6383 Před 2 lety +15

    Imagine being deported from your home country so a bunch of foreigners can come in, just because you lost a war that had nothing to do with you.

    •  Před 2 lety +4

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

    • @taxthesocialist2602
      @taxthesocialist2602 Před 2 lety +5

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

    • @Ocelot835
      @Ocelot835 Před rokem +9

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

    • @jurgeeen
      @jurgeeen Před 6 měsíci

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

  • @ulrichsuter3548
    @ulrichsuter3548 Před 10 měsíci +1

    too bad my russian is not good enough to actually understand the audio...

  • @smemavlast
    @smemavlast Před 2 lety +46

    The video is well done, but I just couldn’t watch it with light heart when looking at the region’s history under the shadow of current events. The people who built and populated that city for 800 years were expelled, along with their legacy, after a nationalist and racist totalitarianism drove Germans to a catastrophic war for human kind. Now, another nationalist with totalitarian tendencies must be displaying nothing but lies to the seemingly nice people we saw at the video while perpetuating all sort of crimes in Ukraine. Those young people at the video who strive to conserve a foreign legacy and refer to that land as “theirs”, can they project that same feeling towards Ukrainians desperately defending their homeland?

    • @av9823
      @av9823 Před 10 měsíci +4

      Crimea and Donbass is not Ukraine.

    • @princeo15
      @princeo15 Před 10 měsíci +4

      Read about British colonialism. You will feel more delighted

    • @peterbarber716
      @peterbarber716 Před 10 měsíci +3

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

    • @DeltaStar777
      @DeltaStar777 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@av9823Of course it is

    • @texaswunderkind
      @texaswunderkind Před 10 měsíci

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

  • @JamesVaughan
    @JamesVaughan Před 9 měsíci +3

    Just seeing all the Soviet brutalist architecture in Kaliningrad would discourage many tourists from ever wanting to visit there...especially when there are beautiful Baltic cities nearby like Gdansk (the former Danzig), Klaipeda (the former Memel), Kaunas, Vilnius, and Riga...so much of old Königsberg could have been saved if the Soviets had not been so impatient to eradicate all traces of German culture in the region...Dresden was also nearly decimated during the war, but look at it now! Much of it has been restored and rebuilt to its prewar appearance, showing what can be done when both the motivation and the funds exist. When looking at photographs of the prewar Königsberg and comparing them with the way "Kaliningrad" looks today, one can only be depressed. It's a shame Soviet architecture had to be so damned UGLY.

  • @taq85
    @taq85 Před 10 měsíci +1

    I like how you skipped the part when it was Polish for a long time.

    • @juavi6987
      @juavi6987 Před 10 měsíci +1

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

    • @taq85
      @taq85 Před 10 měsíci

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

  • @maxsager139
    @maxsager139 Před 10 měsíci +1

    How beautiful is Russian white genetics

  • @bbenjoe
    @bbenjoe Před 10 měsíci +8

    They should rebuild the Königsberg Castle, and actually they should rename the city aswell, to Königsberg's Russian form that is. Kaliningrad was named after Mikhail Kalinin, an old bolshevik revolutionary who happened to die soon after the conquest of the land.

    • @kotperdun8010
      @kotperdun8010 Před 9 měsíci

      Koenigsberg = Kingsmountain = Tsar-Gora = Царь-Гора

    • @Otto_M
      @Otto_M Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @HulioMorjoui
      @HulioMorjoui Před 8 měsíci +2

      Let's rename Berlin for example in swainfurt.

    • @stephenchappell7512
      @stephenchappell7512 Před 6 měsíci

      Kyonigsberg 🇷🇺

  • @yanikkunitsin1466
    @yanikkunitsin1466 Před 10 měsíci

    7:28 - that's not how you use working gloves. Is everything else in the video is as artificial as this person?

    • @TheLaXandro
      @TheLaXandro Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @zionismisterrorism8716
    @zionismisterrorism8716 Před 10 měsíci +1

    No English voice-over?

  • @docstevens007
    @docstevens007 Před 2 lety +1

    Translation would have been good

  • @karylhogan5758
    @karylhogan5758 Před 11 měsíci

    Revenge of the Prussians 🧐

  • @aylabr3931
    @aylabr3931 Před 10 měsíci +8

    My grandparents were driven from their land close by Königsberg during the final days of the war. They only ever talked about this to my mom but what thy saw had to be really bad and they hate Russians, especially those that took over their farm. A shame, really

    • @daazor
      @daazor Před 10 měsíci +3

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

    • @jurgeeen
      @jurgeeen Před 6 měsíci

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

  • @uriituw
    @uriituw Před 2 lety +1

    I can’t understand anything these people are saying.

    • @Andrew25Davies
      @Andrew25Davies Před 10 měsíci

      That's because you don't speak Русский

  • @malcolmsmith4603
    @malcolmsmith4603 Před 10 měsíci

    sad looking at the date of this post, one month before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 😞

  • @jceeross6763
    @jceeross6763 Před 10 měsíci

    English subtitles?
    Got it 🫣

  • @ArtistCameron
    @ArtistCameron Před 9 měsíci +2

    Correction; "after ww2 it was taken hostage by the soviet union" (Koenigsberg)

    • @conag9864
      @conag9864 Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @lonelywoker
    @lonelywoker Před 8 měsíci

    Dieses Land gehört Deutschen.

  • @kostiantynmakeiev9520
    @kostiantynmakeiev9520 Před 9 měsíci

    Occupiers are proud of saying nice words about the preserving the rest of what they destroyed previously ;)

    • @alexrazmislevich7265
      @alexrazmislevich7265 Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @user-tn7gs4pb4z
      @user-tn7gs4pb4z Před 8 měsíci

      It describes ukrainian propaganda😂

  • @heikodankel3245
    @heikodankel3245 Před 10 měsíci

    At least we have rebuilt Germany's historic cities. Will never see the Russians in reality.

  • @petergrossett6763
    @petergrossett6763 Před 10 měsíci

    I’d have watched it. But I don’t watch BBC. Which are dishonest.

  • @pistoletprezesa6835
    @pistoletprezesa6835 Před 2 lety +15

    Russia wants Poland and Lithuania out of the NATO? Why not, but first demilitarize this region and split it between the two EU neighbours.

    • @zavaraninoveuhorky
      @zavaraninoveuhorky Před rokem +5

      maybe give it back to prussians

    • @pistoletprezesa6835
      @pistoletprezesa6835 Před rokem +2

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

    • @MrXxHunter
      @MrXxHunter Před rokem +3

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

    • @hairharbor5080
      @hairharbor5080 Před 11 měsíci +2

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

    • @MrXxHunter
      @MrXxHunter Před 11 měsíci +2

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

  • @Andrey_Drone
    @Andrey_Drone Před 8 měsíci

    Женя наркоман?

  • @walsch80
    @walsch80 Před 10 měsíci +3

    It's really sad to see what's Prussia nowadays. I would say something about this. Was a crime the expulsion of 2 million germans from there after 800 years of history. But was a worst crime the removing of all the historical buildings. I ask me why don't rebuild all. A thing especially hurt me. The ignorance of many people that colonized east Prussia. I know that they were surprised to see almost all the german houses with water, light, phone, radio and toilet at home. Many of them destroyed the toilet at home because in Russia the toilet were outside. That's simply craziness. Now east Prussia is like a military area full od problems. Better to go in Gdańsk or Klaipeda. It's sad to see places like in 1945. Ruins. But incredible into ruins are living people.

    • @rossinvictus
      @rossinvictus Před 10 měsíci +3

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

    • @walsch80
      @walsch80 Před 10 měsíci

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

    • @rossinvictus
      @rossinvictus Před 10 měsíci

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

    • @user-tn7gs4pb4z
      @user-tn7gs4pb4z Před 8 měsíci

      Are you really so stupid?

  • @ottosaxo
    @ottosaxo Před 10 měsíci

    That unlucky piece of land will deteriorate until the day it becomes a part of Lithuania.

    • @neins
      @neins Před 10 měsíci +4

      Ага, размечтался

    • @user-jm3xl7rg5k
      @user-jm3xl7rg5k Před 9 měsíci +1

      It must deteriorate with Lithuania???

    • @user-tn7gs4pb4z
      @user-tn7gs4pb4z Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @avtoera
    @avtoera Před 9 měsíci

    Russia neglected such beautiful city 🙁

  • @ogerpinata1703
    @ogerpinata1703 Před 9 měsíci

    If your country is not willing or able to build beautiful architecture, leave whats already there.
    Old German architecture is better anyway and well was already there😅

    • @conag9864
      @conag9864 Před 8 měsíci

      New neighborhoods of Kalinigrad are very beautiful and modern

  • @user-so7om6ud5z
    @user-so7om6ud5z Před 3 dny

    Каким же стал страшным город при Советском Союзе. Одни хрущевки! Город стал серым, облезлым, типичным российским совком!!

  • @zhenli889
    @zhenli889 Před rokem

    bbc who is most misleading progroms

  • @eugeniovazquez1483
    @eugeniovazquez1483 Před 10 měsíci

    😂😂😂😂😂prooaganda

    • @Andrew25Davies
      @Andrew25Davies Před 10 měsíci +1

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

    • @TheOneWhoSometimesSaysOk
      @TheOneWhoSometimesSaysOk Před 10 měsíci +2

      Что здесь пропаганда? То что они показали советскую архитектуру?

  • @volodymyr_in_ua
    @volodymyr_in_ua Před 8 měsíci +1

    Унікальний багаторічний експеремент.
    Що відбувається з центром європи коли місто захопили росіяни і зробили там росію.
    Руїни

    • @conag9864
      @conag9864 Před 8 měsíci +2

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

    • @volodymyr_in_ua
      @volodymyr_in_ua Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @user-tn7gs4pb4z
      @user-tn7gs4pb4z Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @Oxut
      @Oxut Před 9 dny

      @@volodymyr_in_ua а сам на российской мове пиздишь) вот тебе и 30 лет руського говна))

  • @KeepThatConfidence
    @KeepThatConfidence Před 8 měsíci +1

    This is not Kaliningrad, this is Königsberg. It was annexed and later renamed by the soviets. Portraying russians as some kind of caretakers of the city’s history is a joke.

    • @jurgeeen
      @jurgeeen Před 6 měsíci

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

    • @Oxut
      @Oxut Před 9 dny

      why

    • @svetlanastepanova411
      @svetlanastepanova411 Před hodinou

      а почему аннексировали...ещё мало взяли..варвары😮

  • @jcee2259
    @jcee2259 Před rokem +2

    Any existing Russia citizen-use structure built past 1970
    has not been built high enough. 2022 Communist China
    has built higher for citizens and has so many as surplus
    some are now scheduled for destruction. Emigration is
    not an option as most Russians today are not Communist
    enough to be ideal citizens of China. Nor are re-education
    facilities of China free of brutality, inadequate medical care,
    and poor nutrition. Any 2022 Russian Gulag is better due
    to improvements by Russia.
    .

    • @Consrignrant
      @Consrignrant Před 9 měsíci

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

  • @mercilyngono8955
    @mercilyngono8955 Před 8 měsíci

    You failed to mention that Kaliningrad is technically occupied territory by Russia.

    • @conag9864
      @conag9864 Před 8 měsíci +5

      No, it's not

    • @mercilyngono8955
      @mercilyngono8955 Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @Otto_M
      @Otto_M Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @conag9864
      @conag9864 Před 8 měsíci

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

    • @user-tn7gs4pb4z
      @user-tn7gs4pb4z Před 8 měsíci

      All western part of Poland is technically occupied by it

  • @CzechoslovakGunStories
    @CzechoslovakGunStories Před 10 měsíci +1

    Kaliningrad was established to honour Ottokar II of Bohemia, so it may be considered our territory. Based on the same logic ruSSia is using for the occupation of Crimea when can we expect Kaliningrad to be returned to the Czechs?

    • @texaswunderkind
      @texaswunderkind Před 10 měsíci +1

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

    • @conag9864
      @conag9864 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Cry more

    • @user-tn7gs4pb4z
      @user-tn7gs4pb4z Před 8 měsíci +3

      Return Czechia to Austria, lol

  • @rogerrutz5820
    @rogerrutz5820 Před 9 měsíci +1

    It would be nice if the Russian government and people just leave and go back to Russia.

    • @conag9864
      @conag9864 Před 8 měsíci

      Why should they leave their houses?

    • @user-tn7gs4pb4z
      @user-tn7gs4pb4z Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @advohelp
    @advohelp Před 8 měsíci

    До чего ужасное видео. Тупые люди в лучших традициях папуасов рассказывают, мол, была цивилизация. Собиратели сменились скотоводами. Скотоводов покорили тевтоны. Тевтоны переросли в Пруссию. Пруссия объединила Германию. А Германию покорил СССР. И тут всё вернулось в мезозой. Где в самом центре города пустует почти готовое интересное здание. Нет мозгов, денег, проектов и потребности достроить. Или перестроить. Но автора и ее "экскурсоводов" это не огорчает. А просто веселятся. Как папуасы. На солнышке. Но юмор в том, что для меня это всё - убогое поведение. И в центре Европы. И солнышка там мало. Поэтому таким папуасам там выжить не судьба.

    • @advohelp
      @advohelp Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @AliensKillDevils.
    @AliensKillDevils. Před 2 lety +2

    Enjoy Sunshine and Please be Vegan, no animal’s eggs, animal’s milk, animal’s cheese, animal’s butter, and insect’s honey🥬🥗🌽🥕🥦🥥🥑🍓🍇🍌🍎🍐🍑🥭🍅🥒🍉❤️🌞🌈👼❤️🏖

  • @likeandsubscribe1781
    @likeandsubscribe1781 Před 9 měsíci

    Once upon a time Poland was controlled by Germans ww2