Kaliningrad: How Russia Got a Stronghold in Europe

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  @TheColdWarTV · 5 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @igorsmihailovs52 · 5 years ago

  Kaliningrad also served as a display of the &quot;fully atheist region&quot; within the Soviet Union, as not only all Lutheran priests were expelled to Germany but also all Russian Orthodox priests were not allowed to move in until the Soviet Union broke up.

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  @shiveshsingh3169 · 5 years ago

  When I was a kid, I always thought Prussia and Russia sounded way more similar than they should.

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  @luisantoniofernandezromera9978 · 5 years ago

  In 2005, the Kaliningrad State University, founded in 1967, was renamed the Immanuel Kant Russian State University, the name of the city&apos;s most famous neighbor, something that 60 years of occupation cannot erase. Since 2011 his name is Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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  @hikerstl · 5 years ago

  I worked with a german women who was from Kaliningrad (she called it by its German name, Konigsberg). &nbsp;She and her mother were the victims of the chaos of the war&apos;s end. &nbsp;At that hime she only around 5 years old. &nbsp;She became part of a large gang of children after the war who stole food from the Russians to feed themselves. &nbsp;Her mother died of starvation. &nbsp;Eventually she was connected to her father thru the Red Cross. &nbsp;Her father had the good fortune to be captured in the American zone and started working for the Americans. &nbsp;She ended up marrying a American soldier and hence how she came to be working in St Louis Mo at the Federal Reserve Bank. &nbsp;At that time, my boss was a Lithuanian who as a teenager was captured by the Germans and worked on a potato barge which he said was a great place to be because potatoes were like money. &nbsp;My best friend at the Fed was Jewish and his grandparents were Polish which were exterminated by Hitler. &nbsp;I often think about how these people from all these backgrounds happened to end up in a midwestern cities. &nbsp;Your video about Kaliningrad prompted me to remember those days.

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  @valentinstoyanov304 · 5 years ago

  Voluntold :-) Love this word. &quot;Dobrovolno&quot; vs. &quot;dobro...zorno&quot; in Bulgarian...

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  @jorgeadelprado · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD6IWHFkYpc&amp;t=125">2:05</a> I am amazed you managed to get video recordings from the middle ages

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  @ericragnar3069 · 5 years ago

  Both Churchill and Roosevelt agreed with the mustache lmao

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  @ligayamatira2164 · 5 years ago

  We wish to feature about the Stuctures of East German Government

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  @Amoniac83 · 5 years ago

  The reason it was not incorporated into Lithuanian SSR was not because of ethnicity, but because of higher production and food quotas which would be based on the increased territory and population. As Kaliningrad region had virtually no farming output and only limited industry it was seen by the Lithuanian communist leadership as merely a burden. Hence the proposal was rejected.

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  @M3chUpN8y · 5 years ago

  I love your trademark &quot;but there&apos;s a but&quot; XD

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  @goldenstilettos3166 · 5 years ago

  Lived there all of my childhood, whenever this place pops up anywhere in a video it&apos;s a must-watch for me haha. Thanks for this episode

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