Why Kaliningrad Will be Ukraine 2.0

To the outside world, Kaliningrad is simply a part of Russia 🌍. But change is brewing in this western exclave. From a strategic military hub 🛡️ to a potential flashpoint for conflict ⚔️, Kaliningrad's future hangs in the balance. Could it become Ukraine 2.0? 🇺🇦 Dive into Kaliningrad’s complex history and evolving geopolitical significance in our latest video.
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[hckoenig]

"Königsberg was essentially absorbed into East Prussia during this period". What a distortion of history. Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia and East Prusia was part of Germany.

[marktrotter]

Not sure which audience this is aimed at, but the territory of Kaliningrad was East Prussia before 1945.
Prussia was an independent Germanic state arising from the Teutonic knights in the 14th/15th century, which fought Napoleon at Waterloo and which under Bismarck united Germany into a single Empire with the King of Prussia as emperor. It wasn't some remote exclave of Germany, it was the founding heart of Germany.
In 1945 the German population was expelled (those that had not already fled) and the now empty Kaliningrad was repopulated with Russian colonists.

[dherko]

Well if Putin's thinking is correct, the territory should revert to Germany. Maybe Germany should conduct a special operation to take it back?

[oldernu]

Konisberg was the capitol of East Prussia. After a plague Prussia invited thousands of Lithuanians and Poles to repopulate towns and farms. Jews also settled, perhaps 10-15%. German was taught in higher schools, although lower grades could use other languages, until Germanization in late 1800's. Hardly any descendants of that earlier Prussian polyglot population survived the forced migrations of Nazis or Russians. Prussia existed for centuries before German unification of diverse principalities, kingdoms, duchies or electorates. It was never a Russian territory until grabbed by Stalin.

[paralucent]

Can't believe that a video on Kaliningrad makes no mention of the Suwalski gap!

[TheHteras]

Love how Tallinn Old Town in shown for half this video as "Lithuania" and Pripyat near Chernobyl in Ukraine is shown for some reason when talking about Kaliningrad for the other half of this video.

[krisitak]

Excuse me, Kaliningrad was never an exclave of the Soviet Union since Belarus, Lituania, Latvia, Estonia were all part of it.

[ravenmcclaw]

My ancestors coming from Königsberg and eastern Prussia, we lived there 500 years before we needed to flee, sadly.

[YorenSt]

5:08 ''Thanks to the Baltic States surrounding it not only becoming independant'' We didn't ''become'' independent, but restored our independance.

[Bloodychaser]

It was never Kaliningrad in the first place, its true name is Königsberg and always will be!

[TeHypno]

Królewiec just means Königsberg in Polish

[psow]

Just FYI, Królewiec is a historical name of the main city there (in the polish language). Soviets changed the original name to Kaliningrad in 1946 to honor Mikhail Kalinin, who was a war criminal, one of the people directly responsible for ordering the Katyń massacre (where Russians executed 22000 Polish officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war).

So basically, here in Poland we decided we prefer the old name instead. Russians are still completely free to call it whatever they want - we don't care, we will use our name instead. To be honest, it is kind of funny, that this name change bothered some of them that much.

[DukeNukemIsHere]

Low quality video. It repeatedly references an independence movement in Kaliningrad based on a single internet poll conducted by activists. That is ridiculous.

[RomaInvicta]

This channel is good at one thing: making factual errors ; no, thank you

[scottsegal]

Why did the producer avoid discussing Belarus, and the Suwalski Gap altogether?

[Phantom-mgcg]

1:27 Königsberg was an important city in Prussia and the Prussian kings were crowned there. Königsberg was under Prussian control since the 17th century. Königsberg/Kaliningrad wasn´t independent since the middle ages.

[derek]

War...not special military operation...

[tulliusexmisc]

13:48 Crimea didn't go to Ukraine when the Soviet Union collapsed: it had already been part of Ukraine for decades.

[dougsinthailand]

If thousands of Poles moved there, could they hold a referendum to join Poland?

[andrzejp.]

1:40 In fact, Prussia, with its capital in Königsberg and then Berlin, absorbed the rest of Germany to form the German Empire - the Second Reich.