königsberg then kaliningrad now

[@brucel10315]

A town without a face.

[@RovexHD]

War is the destruction of humanity. People, heritage, culture !

[@UlmanistLatvia]

Bad news: Time after time, we have shown that war/aggression is part of humanity. Very often, wars are actually necessary to protect your people, heritage and culture, because not everyone on this planet shares those values. Besides, wars are what granted Europe the greatness it enjoyed until 1939...

[@igorj.ligarzewski9001]

If Königsberg after World War II had been Polish or German, it would probably have been a beautiful city similar to Gdańsk and besieged by tourists😪

[@benediktschlegel8233]

I would say Polish or Lithuanian.

[@oooshafiqooo]

Communists wanted Kaliningrad a communist utopia, the Prussians stikes with a curse

[@oooshafiqooo]

@@benediktschlegel8233 nay. Lithuanian is just too non-dominant

[@user-iw4gt5ci5h]

Poor Germans. How many killed people in Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia by German? How many were killed in the camps ?

[@wirthmart]

Polish or Lithuanian? Why so? Konigsberg was founded by German knights and was a German city ever since until the Soviets expelled all the inhabitants to DDR after WW2

[@MrMalavita89]

Incredibly sad...

[@ARandomTexan]

Königsberg

[@andreytikhonov2334]

Калининград.

[@jensdodt2002]

Mit über 80.000 Toten Zivilisten hatte Königsberg, statistisch gesehen den höchsten Verlust an ziviler Bevölkerung, im zweiten Weltkrieg, im deutschen Reich .

[@user-iw4gt5ci5h]

Poor Germans. How many killed people in Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia by German? How many were killed in the camps ?

[@Kaiser7068]

I’m German and this is just too sad to watch. It’s our historical land… our heart… and by God it will be ours again… God save East Prussia… for no one could… 🇩🇪💔

[@romul39rus]

Простите, за такие виды. Мы конечно пытаемся что-то поменять, но хоть эту порнографию в виде замены замка хоть сносить начали.

[@user-iw4gt5ci5h]

Poor Germans. How many killed people in Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia by German? How many were killed in the camps ?

[@abcdmefgh2843]

That's depressing.

[@tongsllc]

80% of Königsberg was destroyed during WWII.

[@sebastianw9749]

most of Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) was destroyed too, but the Poles done a brilliant job at rebuilding the city and keeping all of its powerful Prussian and Austrian architecture. If the Poles would've received Konigsberg after the war then they would've 'saved' and rebuilt the city too.

[@wassisuallvilen2778]

@@sebastianw9749 Смотрите, как бы вам сохранить то, что получили!😂

[@SlavicCoffee]

Now it’s like 98/99.5% destroyed or more. Such a shame that it was never preserved..

[@adamLE05401]

@@sebastianw9749 can you imagine that after all the crimes germans did in your country, you will try to restore their city ? Why would you ? I would make it soviet city. Just like they did. Only a shame that architecture in the USSR died after Stalin. Too bad for Kaliningrad

[@adifreitag8579]

@@sebastianw9749 Although the Poles have partially rebuilt the destroyed German cities in the areas they annexed, they act as if they were products of their culture. They adorn themselves with foreign feathers, so to speak. For us Germans it has no meaning. With the annexation of the German eastern territories by the peoples of the East and the expulsion of the German population, the German history and culture of these areas became extinct. The Eastern peoples who later settled there have no connection to the German culture of these areas. The German buildings of the cities in these areas are just a beautiful backdrop for foreign residents.

[@LuisPerez-qs2kh]

Ay mi madre que cosa más fea han hecho de una ciudad que era tan bella.

[@WindTunnelRacing]

So So Sad.

[@pyrogaming2500]

I hope Poland or Germany takes that land back one day and returns Kaliningrad to its former Kongisburg glory.

[@Aliraja-em7be]

Germans will as you know they don't forget their fatherland

[@zowenladfs]

not for poland

[@targonyt7258]

Its never be happen

[@UlmanistLatvia]

Neither Germany, nor Poland, care much for the rebuilding of classical architecture.

[@theccpisaparasite8813]

Maybe soon

[@tammo100]

Total disaster. What an horrendous city it nowadays is. Königsberg must be German or Polish again! And then rebuilt to its former glory.

[@hig65478]

Город был разрушен в меньшей степени, чем Варшава или Гамбург. Это все результат действий советских варваров. Можно было восстановить если не все, то очень многое, как сделали с Данцигом, Бреслау или многими германскими городами. Нет прощения мерзким совковым бюрократам, что отдавали приказы о сносе замка, или о разрушении исторических кварталов. До слез обидно за этот город. Был там однажды, очень и очень грустно видеть всё это, сердце плачет и разрывается от боли😢

[@theprobarabanshiksash2494]

А остров Кнайпхов и 10 000 его мирных жителей напалмовыми бомбами кто бомбили, извините, не англичане ли? А 6000 бедных немецких фермеров возле замка Бальга на лёд залива выгнали с животиной и три дня с воздуха тяжёлой артиллерией херачили, ой, снова англичане? А мы Калининградцы восстановили и восстанавливаем исторические здания, башни, замки, форты. Мы знаем историю Кенигсберга и уважаем её. К нам раньше приезжали немцы и мы с удовольствием выпускали их в те квартиры, в которых они жили. Приезжайте сейчас и убедитесь. И не пишите про американскую херню.

[@oooshafiqooo]

From a promising city that is comparable to Paris, to a slum that looked like a city in Siberia, how much had the Soviets destroyed (also British to the bombings)

[@adamLE05401]

@@oooshafiqooo I can understand they wanted to destroy the old city. How much mercy did Germans have with Leningrad, Minsk etc. ? Close to zero ? I dont feel sorry for the old city. What I feel sorry for is that Stalin era ended too soon and then only idiots came to power in the USSR and the architecture is the evidence. Stalin era neighbourhoods of soviet cities are nice, Kaliningrad could be amazing soviet city.

[@oooshafiqooo]

@@adamLE05401 well the Region should be its own state in USSR fr and not be incorporated in RFSR

[@mariasavchenko2443]

This is not Soviet barbarians as you call them. This is nations that lost 20 mln lives in total. Indeed, its pity to see how beautiful the city was as compared to now. Still, we love this city even with little original signs remained, love much more than other cities in Russia. What happened in 1945 is a great tragedy. We vote for peace (if we could be heard).

[@sashwathnp4083]

This once beautiful city has lost its beauty because of the Soviets

[@marciacrews6116]

The Russians really trashed it.

[@bibliotecaluimatei3508]

agree dude

[@user-iw4gt5ci5h]

Poor Germans. How many killed people in Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia by German? How many were killed in the camps ?

[@pastuh]

looks like random photos..

[@GrumpyAboutEverything]

Disappointment

[@franciscocontreras6833]

The city looks shitty with out its buildings

[@abcdmefgh2843]

What Russian rule does to mf

[@SlavicCoffee]

Yes.. Hopefully whoever is the next occupiers of Konigsberg will care more about its old history than just letting everything old crumble