Russia: Landmark 'House of Soviets' in Kaliningrad to be demolished | Focus on Europe

The House of Soviets was emblematic of Kaliningrad's rich cultural history for more than 50 years. It took more than 20 years to build, and then remained empty for another 30. Now the massive building is coming down.
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[@perseusarkouda]

Soviets tried to look futuristic and they ended up looking dystopian. Man, that's a huge fail.

[@luisoctavio473]

When?

[@michalbroz3429]

They are tragedic. The person in the video said: "i would not be surprised if they end up only with shopping center".

[@dennismarfo3536]

This was where the German philosopher Emmanuel Kant was born .

[@Tobi-ln9xr]

This was where Prussia was born.

[@Sebastian-sd1om]

He's rolling over in his grave seeing What Konigsberg has become

[@FranFerioli]

And those are the famous bridges of Königsberg. A puzzle about traversing them started a branch of maths central to everything networks (with the help of one of history greatest mathematicians).

[@arthursaar305]

The Prussian people were also born there - and after the arrival of the Germans, they disappeared somewhere.

[@appleslover]

@@arthursaar305 Prussians are Germans 😂 Nice try tho

[@sharonsteele618]

21 years to renovate the building. 😅😂🤣🤣😂

[@lilshmurda5832]

😂😂😂 why some people are fun men

[@firedup692]

They should ask China for assistance. It might be done in 21 days.

[@jamesdean1598]

By Russian standards

[@Sierra-Whisky]

If it takes "only" 20 years to build, why invest 21 years to renovate? 🤣

[@yuriythebest]

@@Sierra-Whisky pfft that's nothing, here in Kiev we have a bridge to the suburb of Troieshchyna which is being built for 28 years now

[@appleslover]

"... As the times and inhabitants changed" I guess it's politically incorrect to say that they were ethnically cleansed 🤔

[@uporabn1k]

Yeah, Soviets weren't big on "turn the other cheek", after all they were communist. I guess they went more for "an eye for an eye"

[@sleeping_beauty322]

@@uporabn1k yeah, moving few millions people to Germany and killing 27 million people fits into "eye for an eye" concept very well

[@uporabn1k]

@@sleeping_beauty322 don't go play heavyweight boxing if you are not heavyweight

[@sleeping_beauty322]

@@uporabn1k germans started the war, not soviets

[@appleslover]

@@sleeping_beauty322 stop disgustingly justifying rape and ethnic cleansing, because no one here was trying to justify murder, like you. Get help

[@WillDraco]

1:28 Pro Tip: If you don't want to be identified you need to cover more than your face if you've got visible tattoos.

[@dumbidiot2698]

Go ahead and identity him then. Get back to me

[@tanjimpurno2560]

He is not smuggling nuclear secrets lol. Even if he gets caught the police will probably just tell him to piss off.

[@ligametis]

​@@tanjimpurno2560 Exactly, this is good enough that police wouldn't even bother searching for him.

[@ligametis]

@@joelmatos8321 usually particularly that tattoo in that place is rare

[@markgarin6355]

1 year per floor, 21 floors....21 years. Damn, he got it on the first guess.

[@staryjdido918]

Using russian contractors, what would one expect? 21 years of graft and corruption, is my guess.

[@kutanov]

It's probably not because of amount of work, but availability of funds. It's an administrative building

[@markgarin6355]

@@kutanov well also if the facility is being used it is difficult to have too much renovation at one time. Ah, so much asbestos so little time.

[@timothycook4782]

Sounds like the spitballing assessment of someone who really doesn't like his job that much.

[@нацияинтернационал]

@@staryjdido918 so why Russian sites was very changed over 20 years you can check in KZbin Russian sites in the 90 90s and now . And the Germans make genocide of Russian Belarusian people by Germany was destroyed thousands of Soviet Russia's sites . And this building was than in the 20 years ago ...

[@maszlagma]

Maybe they should rebuild the Königsberg castle which was on the site before?

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

It would be great to see the castle again. Sadly, so little is left of the historic surroundings that it will look like a giraffe in a pool of dolphins.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Not that Soviet era buildings look as graceful as dolphins: they look like gravestones in an unvisited cemetery.

[@KA_Videos]

Rebuilding Castle is not particularly easy, and it could be Kitschy/tasteless/cheap looking especially when the area is surrounded by panel buildings

[@user-ns8ik6id2q]

@@KA_Videos I agree they should just leave it until one day they give the land back to the Prussian/German people who where ethic cleansed from there.

[@PavelZaitsev]

Let’s consider how many people Germans have killed during world war II, not a chance, Prussian capital had to be razed to the ground

[@OGRussianPatriot]

I am from Kaliningrad, yes this building was planned to be demolished for a long time now, there were suggestions to remake into something better, but they got rejected since there is not enough money to finish the building.

[@losabias4723]

Hi!, just asking, do you know if people in Kaliningrad is interested in rebuilding the castle or at least some parts of the old city center? I mean, it was nice and would make Kaliningrad an interesting place for more tourists to visit.

[@OGRussianPatriot]

@@losabias4723 There are plans to make it more touristic

[@slepk7898]

People from Kaliningrad should form a new state and call themselves GermanRus

[@boxie001]

such a painful history there and so painful to see what happened to the place now. I see the city and the people in it as victims of WW2 even if it was german.

[@appleslover]

"Even if it was German" OK so Germans can't be victims of war? 14 million ethnic Germans that have been living in East Prussia, Silesia etc. For hundreds even thousands of years were ethnically cleansed and 2 million died as a result, 2 MILLION German women were violently raped by the allied soldiers (AFTER THE WAR) and hundreds of thousands were starved to death, civilians were bombed to the stake by the Americans and and the British. I'm not saying this as a justification for what the regime did to others but I see literally no one mentioning or recognizing these war crimes committed by the allies, no sympathy for innocent civilian life, they appear to have a strawman view of Germans even after 76 years of the war. One crime should not justify the other. I hate the saying "history is written by the victors" but in this very specific case, it couldn't be more true.

[@boxie001]

@@appleslover triggered much? hard to call the people that start a war a victim of that war, it is just a fact. but I did it anyway. I stopped reading after the first line I do not read blogs and I am well aware of the history.

[@appleslover]

@@boxie001 yeah, every single child, woman, elder started that war.. Maybe that's one of your facts too

[@appleslover]

@@boxie001 lol what would I expect from someone who doesn't even bother to see other people's opinion before disagreeing with them

[@sleeping_beauty322]

@@appleslover Eastern Germany was the region where NSDAP was especially popular

[@Earth098]

Stop calling those graffiti people, 'street artists.' Most of the time they destroy public spaces.

[@erickgomez7775]

I would also say that most of the self proclaimed painters destroy the canvas with their art.

[@PM2024-]

21 years to renovate? Bring in the Chinese. They’ll renovate that entire building in six months 🔨

[@לעזאזלעםגוביידן]

Then collapse in 6 years

[@Abcflc]

yeah like all of the garbage they make, including buildings, that will not last 25 years....

[@HunterShows]

"Husk" is a good word to describe "Kaliningrad."

[@greatgalaxy2118]

Ohhh... Schade/Sad Führer could not collect and gather those "HUSK"

[@nicevideomancanada]

simple math: hire 20 times the people and get the job done in one year. lol

[@visitante-pc5zc]

taxation is theft

[@CzornyLisek]

That's like saying lets have 9 pregnant so that singular child is born in a month. Technological proceses take time and nothing can be done about it.

[@nicevideomancanada]

@@CzornyLisek That's impossible, but one could hire 20 times the workforce. hit me back if you dare lol

[@OnilMarteNavarroza]

@@CzornyLisek wow! What a mindset!

[@emancoy]

Also 20 x more expensive 🤣

[@bjoernaltmann]

In the UK it takes them two years to put insulation on a small social housing block (four floors).

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Truly disgraceful to think that the castle ruins survived the war, but Brezhnev blew them up as late as 1968!

[@Sabakinno]

So?

[@captaindak5119]

What's the point of keeping the ruins of your enemy?

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@captaindak5119 - What an incredibly short-sighted comment. They were ruins from a distant past, 16th century if not earlier, and spectacularly beautiful. Russia has almost no old buildings at all since everything was built in wood, which means they have almost no architectural history. Most Russian towns have all the charm of a disused cemetery.

[@captaindak5119]

@@sirrathersplendid4825 I highly doubt Brezhnev would have cared for your sentiments. It's possible that he blew up the castle to remove traces of German heritage from Kaliningrad (not surprising given the Soviets changed its name from Konigsberg to Kaliningrad). Assuming Brezhnev wanted to Sovietize the city, what I said wasn't short sighted.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@captaindak5119 - Of course he didn’t. That’s why he blew it up.

[@Spirit451]

Is it too late for Mr. Bald to visit?

[@anandnairkollam]

Ah that sense of happiness as a german seeing it go down. :)

[@madraven07]

Rebuild Konigsberg castle

[@rogerwilco2]

It was quite a beautiful castle that they tore down. It is probably impossible to rebuild in any way that would do it justice, but that is what they should do if it was possible. Our pre-industrial cities are often much more beautiful and much nicer places to live, as they were made for people, not for cars. Wherever possible, people should build for people, not for cars. That will last, unless crazy governments demolish it. Happened a lot in the USA too.

[@TeddyKrimsony]

the castle was destroyed by WW2 they demolished the standing remnants of it

[@Abcflc]

@@TeddyKrimsony it was damaged, not destroyed- demolition is what destroyed it.

[@Abcflc]

It can be rebuilt when there is money and will. There are less artisans and experts in historical architecture than in the past, but we still exist and can do the work.

[@benghazi4216]

One year per floor?! Not a chance. That has to be corruption numbers. In two, maximum three years that building would be modern office spaces if my company did it in my country. And that is a slow moving western country. Guesstimating a price tag of around a 100 million if the construction is sound.

[@EscudoPadraoPrata]

Last years of the URSS were marked by a pressure to build as much as possible, and that continued after the end of the URSS. Mega projects were planned started and run out of funds, huge metropolitan Systems , that were impossible to finish , by the 90 money would just desapear, until Putin arrived and put a stop to most of it

[@benghazi4216]

@@EscudoPadraoPrata Putin stopped what? The constructions or money diapering? If it's the latter, I will just have to point you to the Residence at Cape Idokopas. Part of that money was supposed to go to renovating Russian hospitals, and it went to Putin's palace instead.

[@joelhenderson4450]

That “new development” concept is somehow even worse.

[@Aprilium]

You hate modern architecture eh?

[@Rustycaddy17]

@@Aprilium Literally everyone on the planet hates modernist architecture, probably less than 5% of the world population actually loves this faceless garbage.

[@a3b36a04]

Don't worry. Builders will not be able to make it look like a concept.

[@erickgomez7775]

@@Rustycaddy17 yep! modern architecture doesn't belong to any particular place, so it looks like a sad orphan

[@indonesianguy4026]

@@erickgomez7775 I actually kinda liked it but i dont support to fully modernize historical site I mean its just sad to even look at it

[@phoebusapollo4677]

Russia could test its hypersonic missiles on this building and see if they works.

[@madansrinivasan6365]

They will instead test the missile on German Parliament Bldg.

[@adamwnt]

@@madansrinivasan6365 only to have a nuke on its kremlin shot by Nato from the very German soil

[@elslayer6410]

@@adamwnt yeah I don't think NATO would want to mess with Russia Russia has the largest nuclear Arsenal Russia can destroy every NATO country if it wanted to with the push of a button

[@elslayer6410]

@@adamwnt Russia has more nukes than NATO combined so think twice before you try to mess with Russia

[@adamwnt]

@@elslayer6410 i was replying to madan. It is obvious that no one would want a self destructive war and with tousands of nukes on both sides there’s absolutely no difference who has a bit more. Russia would not start a war and nor would Nato, but if any side does it a response will inevitably follow, simple as

[@shitzuation]

Just enough space for a Putin’s Palace#2!!! 👏🤑👏🤑👏🤑👏🤑👏🤑

[@thegodfather_8455]

Yet bug bad evil Putin is making the Russian ebony Grow and surge

[@shitzuation]

@@thegodfather_8455 Novichokia/Russia is growing into the largest 3rd world country…sounds lovely! 👏🥴

[@thegodfather_8455]

@@shitzuation yeah right, while it's neighbours had the public health officer elect a nation wide paw without Senate or house support

[@BRONCOWEN]

Königsberg to Kaliningrad.. what a tragedy.

[@olegshtolc7245]

Well shouldn’t have started ww2

[@god-bv5wo]

@@olegshtolc7245 that doesn't justify ethnically cleansing millions of people and destroying historic city. One crime does not justify the other.

[@olegshtolc7245]

@@god-bv5wo I’m not speaking about justification, I’m telling you about consequences of the action

[@stentyk6321]

Fair pay for WW2

[@OSTARAEB4]

@@god-bv5wooh, the irony! Yes, a tragedy for many of numerous nations.

[@brianlastname3808]

Tear it down and rebuild the (castle) schloss.

[@augustineignatious2945]

So Russia is going to destroy an old building. How is this news

[@erickgomez7775]

Because of the location and history of the place

[@erickgomez7775]

The House of Soviets is the perfect metaphor for the Soviet Union, an empty husk, chepar to demolish than to change

[@KateeAngel]

Says the person who knows nothing about the Soviet Union. Don't worry, there are plenty of people like you, who say absolute nonsense and factually wrong things about USSR and Russia with 100% confidence that they are right. It is called Dunning-Krüger effect

[@erickgomez7775]

@@KateeAngel yeah. I know nothing. Sure. Well I only studied it's economics. I also studied marxism. Yep, nothing.

[@news_internationale2035]

The House of Soviets in Crimea has been useb by both Ukrainian and Russian administration.

[@KAMIKAZE_PLAY]

Whole Russia feels Like Abandoned Land

[@fuckfannyfiddlefart]

Destroyed, the ussr was proud, Russia is just a gangsters paradise with graffiti

[@BLMVDV]

capitalism

[@elslayer6410]

The entire USA is a corrupted country with homeless people everywhere

[@wendys9587]

@@elslayer6410 nah the homeless are only in California

[@iljenshumilin467]

@@wendys9587 and in Los angels and new York

[@12kenbutsuri]

That new design looks a bit like Helsinki.

[@kentcyclist]

What a shame. Couldn't it be used for asylum seekers

[@jamesonlano2891]

Another 22 years to ignore until it'll be demolished.

[@johndow1809]

A perfect location to make an action packed movie with final explosion that will bring it down, A " 007 movie "

[@maggiejetson7904]

Nier Automata, 007 is for boomers.

[@johndow1809]

@@maggiejetson7904 how about " scape from RUSSIA " ?

[@amy-lillian6135]

Guys, there is a movie that was shot there in 2002 ”honey baby” by mika kaurismaki By the way, i live here :P

[@Siberianul]

We don't want to give the name and the face of this rogue painter, but we can film his tattoos from which you might identify him...Epic...

[@raspberries97]

I remember Chinese, building a skyscraper in 10 days 😂

[@MWENDA-vv5im]

Constructing a new building is not quite similar to repairing an old one.

[@आपकापिता]

@PANDEMIC BY CCP AND XITLER true af

[@आपकापिता]

They are even trying to push communism on the world so that the world gets weak meanwhile capitalist china keeps getting stronger.

[@TheTranceCartel]

It'll fall apart the next earthquake over 5.0 guaranteed

[@Alex-pj8nz]

Might as well destroy it and build something new.

[@pineapplesareyummy6352]

One year to renovate each floor? Surely they can hire some workers from China's Belt & Road Project, and they'll just allocate 21 times to labour to get it done in one year?

[@CzornyLisek]

That's like saying lets have 9 pregnant so that singular child is born in a month. Technological proceses take time and nothing can be done about it.

[@agoogleuseranonymous2658]

That's the thing. Why do they have to do it at the rate of a 1 floor per year lol. That seems to be lazy.

[@natashahappy5194]

Unfortunately Chinese workers have gone home, because of the virus, the second reason they are usually underpaid so you won't be able to find so many good workers in such a small city.

[@JohnSmith-ft2tw]

@@agoogleuseranonymous2658 Guys, I imagine that is the rate at which they hope to be able to afford. I doubt it's the workforce. Think how much it would cost to repair just the 50 year old cement? ( Think Florida condo collapse.) Or the investment in everything from plumbing to electrical circuits? Elevators? HVAC? Even on the low, we're talking about US$2M per floor.(Or more.) And after US$42-50M spent, you still have to sell/lease to regain the investment. Can the Russian economy handle that? I'm betting that becomes a parking lot for the foreseeable future.

[@theodavis9778]

Hmmmm. At least there’s a giant picture of a banana in there …….

[@lautaroortizfiorito910]

The city was destroyed by the British aviation.

[@railway187]

From a distance it is quite beautiful. It’s sad that buildings have to be older than hundred years to be seen as testimonials of the past and to be considered as worth keeping 😢

[@Dweller415]

From a distance? Maybe from Berlin.

[@adamwnt]

nonsense, it's just hideous and made up cheaply

[@erickgomez7775]

From a distance even your mom is beautiful

[@fbyi2940]

@@adamwnt cheaply? I still perfer this over glassy skyscraper

[@neilabernath5862]

Looks good to me, looks like a lot of buildings in Us.

[@j.obrien4990]

Hopefully the Kaliningrad enclave can become independent with a population and city that represents its past, present, and future. -- as a baltic/german/slavic nation.

[@TheAdekrijger]

The graffiti artists are doing a fine job. It is the architects and planners who wasted that space by putting a building there with a negative aesthetic impact. Form is a function.

[@ramrai5783]

DW - Russia: Landmark 'House of Soviets' in Kaliningrad to be demolished PUTIN - DO U HAVE A PROBLEM 😡 XI PING - WEL SAID , BROTHER 😂

[@davidbrown5628]

21 floors so it must take 21 years 🤔😅

[@Sultan-nx9jn]

Kaliningrad or Kunisberg should be returned to Germany 🇩🇪 If you make an election there, the majority of citizens would vote for reconnecting to Germany.

[@dilkondeff]

ничего не надо возвращать, потеря кенигсберга это цена которая германия заплатила за миллионы жизней, по идее нам ещё вся восточная часть германии должна отойти как компенсация

[@revinhatol]

CZECHIA would have to disagree with everyone here.

[@jnwilliams1986]

Give it all back to Germany 🇩🇪

[@jnwilliams1986]

@@joelmatos8321 Nah, the Germans could do better with the land. The only reason Russia keeps the enclave is for a warm water port.

[@fye_4155]

russia proposed that when the USSR collapsed lithuania and germany declined

[@firebolt26]

One year for one floor? Time management problem obviously. Anyway, they should tear it down, it looks awful.

[@nikolasirovica3250]

Zašto? Da sagrade neki ‘Beograd na vodi’ u kaliningradu? Ne hvala. Ovo bi bilo kao da sruše beogradjanku u Beogradu.

[@firebolt26]

@@nikolasirovica3250 Nisam zagovornik arhitekture brutalizma iz tog perioda. Ali prateći trendove izgradnje stambenih naselja u Rusiji, slažem se sa tvojom konstatacijom da bi tu moglo nići nešto mnogo gore.

[@nikolasirovica3250]

@@firebolt26 Da pa nisam ni ja ljubitelj brutalizma, samo kada vidim sta se gradi u rusiji od novih gradnja, meni je puno draze da ostane ovo staro, cak i ako je komunistkcko. Izgleda da se vise manje slazemo haha

[@fuckfannyfiddlefart]

What a WASTE I miss the USSR.

[@fbyi2940]

Its not surprising if you do.

[@natashahappy5194]

Most Russian people do the same, but it's because they were young and healthy then, those who lived well now miss it...

[@eleanorpikes]

It' s in the Czech Republic now.

[@Abcflc]

Hopefully Russia will lose the war and enter a couple decades of chaos and a possible civil war- perhaps the future of Kaliningrad is being an independent nation and joining the EU.

[@DanielKarnole-fs3hm]

You can keep dreaming. In reality the west is hanging on a few strands. Largest debt ever, all the factories are in China, most dollars printed after covid… your end is near…

[@stanislavmauzy8384]

@@DanielKarnole-fs3hm debt to whom? Can just print more

[@DanielKarnole-fs3hm]

@@stanislavmauzy8384 Print? The world is onto this BS, we don’t need your toilet paper. We’ll keep out goods or trade in the soon to be backed by gold Bricks or Chinese currency.

[@nobbynobbs8182]

@DanielKarnole-fs3hm 😆 🤣 Enjoy RuSSia becoming a nasal state of China, and become like North Korea

[@ryansean8371]

This really looks like one of the building from fallout game.

[@rodsmith8118]

This building existed years before the first Fallout game was released in 1997.

[@bbenjoe]

It is now being demolished.

[@allthecoolnamesaretaken10]

DW again crying, you lost guys, get over

[@usedsocks6810]

It's breaking news whenever Russia or China demolishes/renovates a building

[@benghazi4216]

Taking down a symbolic eyesore after 30 years is news. The west doesn't have those things, except the US.

[@shenjiejason8350]

If they hire a Chinese revocation company it'll just take 1 month

[@benghazi4216]

@@shenjiejason8350 But fall down in 4 years...

[@shenjiejason8350]

@@benghazi4216 it's not a US made 737 max...

[@benghazi4216]

@@shenjiejason8350 Comac can't even fly in the rest of the world, and you are complaining about Boeing? Don't throw stones in glass houses... China is known for poor quality, all over the world. Baby milk that kills babies remember?

[@iwrotethis4712]

A whole year to renovate one floor

[@DataJYdocs]

(emblematic) - What about the Reichstag!

[@aaronsmith-q8v]

1 year to renovate 1 floor? Burj Khalifa was made in 6 years and it has 163 floors. That's around 27 floors a year. You probably have the raw material. So all you need is cheap labor and voila its done in under 1 year lol.

[@alfredvonsfer7136]

I think the problem is more so that in order to renovate they would need to basically tear down the building without ya know, tearing it down. Then rebuild it from the inside out whilst following the already archaic design. If it was being built from scratch today then yes that would be much faster, thus the plan to tear it down and build something new.

[@ThePaciorr]

@@alfredvonsfer7136 yeah, renovating takes a lot longer than building new a lot of a time. Close to me they were renovating an old (70 years or something) bridge. It took them more than 2 years and supposedly they could build new one for 3/4 of the price but they didnt because of some environmental issues with simply tearing down old one. It's even more compliacted with historical landmarks because sometimes they need to do it in a technique that is dated and there aren't many specialists that can do that or it can be even hard to find adequate materials (exotic wood etc. which might be illegal to cut down nowadays)

[@aaronsmith-q8v]

@@alfredvonsfer7136 Yeah I understand. But if its 27 times slower then its astounding in the least.

[@alfredvonsfer7136]

@@aaronsmith-q8v oh yeah for sure, not even worth saving if it would take that long

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

You’ve got to understand this is Russian labour, not Chinese labour.

[@sunrae3971]

How about applying Russian imperialist logic and let People of Königsberg vote to leave Russia to join Germany, like Russia did with Crimea? I guess no green unmarked men needed.

[@jivkotodorov84]

Königsberg/Kaliningrad - doesnt have many germans today - from 400000 people 352000 are russians and just 1600 germans so what you suggest is impossible - russians will never vote their region (mean region where they are the majority of the population) to join another country. This is the case with any other nation.

[@sunrae3971]

@@jivkotodorov84 So lets have a vote nothing to worry.

[@MrEddie284]

@@sunrae3971 And who will pay for that? You?

[@prinzeugenius7907]

@@sunrae3971 dude 99% of the population living there now for almost 80 years is Russian, all the Germans were killed or deported to Siberia. What "vote" do you expect unter these circumstances?

[@sunrae3971]

​@@prinzeugenius7907Yeah russian flag shagging for the 99% of Königsberg. London, Paris, Monaco and Marbella for the russian 1% 🤡.

[@caveman5959]

0:13 minion jumpscare

[@yvesgomez]

So Koenigsberg will return to Germany since Crimea has returned to Russia ?

[@MrEddie284]

Difference is Crimea wanted to return to Russia. Kaliningrad does not want to return to Germany

[@yvesgomez]

@@MrEddie284 Because ussr "replaced" the population maybe ?

[@erickgomez7775]

@@MrEddie284 r u sure???

[@MrEddie284]

@@erickgomez7775 Yes

[@InFamou5Killer]

rip prussia

[@oscare.quiros6349]

Do not use Russian workers and you could finish the remodelling in 1 year.

[@linmal2242]

Yes even that German architectural firm's plans are as bad as the Soviet monolith.! Find a better designer like YT's 'Heise Says' !

[@knockhello2604]

So many people from 3rd world countries would love to live there in Russia

[@maggiejetson7904]

Why would a 3rd world person move to Russia?

[@dantebg100]

Sorry but Russia is kinda 3rd world

[@losabias4723]

Hi from a 3rd world country, as for me, I rather to stay in my country, at least here we have freedom of speech lol.

[@adjiczgf8180]

hhh free konigsberg

[@prieremonte]

That's sad. Looks beautiful

[@laopang91362]

This building looks solid unlike the condos in Florida.

[@VinnieBoombatz374]

Ummm...you're not getting the city back Germany. Sorry.

[@MilitantOldLady]

Stolen land.

[@Sabakinno]

From murderers

[@ArtVandelay00]

@@Sabakinno murderers like the communists

[@yllbardh]

@@Sabakinno to murders

[@Sabakinno]

@@yllbardh to liberators

[@yllbardh]

@@Sabakinno so called -liberators- DO NOT commit genocide

[@ZorexZockt]

I was there in February, not a great sight to see

[@fjellyo3261]

You mean the whole city and Oblast of Kaliningrad is not worth seeing or just this building?

[@noblecollins9549]

It is what it is

[@lil----lil]

Invite Banksy before you destroy it and let him go to town on it. SUDDENLY, the walls are worth more than the entire building!

[@mickjames73]

Was Königsberg ever formally ceded to the Soviets, as far as i know it is still technically only a Russian occupied territory

[@xandervk2371]

The borders are internationally recognized. Also note that the former East Prussia was partitioned between USSR and Poland.

[@zedxyle]

Germany formally gave up all rights to former territories in order for the USSR to accept German reunification

[@vaclavcervinka65]

Germany started a terrible war and lost it. So they better keep their mouths shut.

[@SlavicCoffee]

Well here’s my opinion on this. Do I think east Prussia belongs to Russia? Not really. And the Germans pretty much had the East Prussian lands for a extremely long time. But here & there people did occupied it for a shot amount of time but it still mainly remained German until 1945. However west Prussia was mainly Poland. But when it comes to what the Soviets & of what they did to the people in east Prussia it was beyond cruel at that point, and they’ve had the lands for like over 70+ years now. & I don’t recognize Kaliningrad as a part of Russia, because of the vary fact it was occupied by the Soviets and then it collapsed since 1991, it doesn’t make sense.

[@agoogleuseranonymous2658]

@@xandervk2371 Yeah today probably wouldn't happened. Just like Russia sold Alaska to the USA.

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

They should rebuild it - It is a beautiful building!!!

[@krzywygeneral]

Only a person from outside of the Eastern Block can call it beautiful

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

@@krzywygeneral I have seen many building from soviet and communist cities i believe are marvels. I believe that the style was and is still not fully developed and i believe much of the hate comes from the horrible economy, governments, and shotty construction of many of the buildings that make many from teh regions not like their souroundings witch makes them not like building slike these, and having the har lifestyles that are typical to the rregions i understand why you don't like your buildings. But if you take the best of your construction and built cities that funtioned better you'd think different. Even your huge Khrushchyovka wouldn't be so bad if they had public bathrooms every several floors and at intervals of length. But like i said the philosophies arn't bad its just there is no insight or maybey care for citizens - so i understand why you hate them. But with the smallest "western" tweeks they aren't bad at all. I have seen so many samples i like and many phylosophies i like too.

[@krzywygeneral]

@@cliffwoodbury5319 the urban planning that comes with the commieblocks is great. Nothing else is great about it. Small flats, angled walls, not soundproof at all. Packing so many people into a single building removes any feeling of community. Also management of the building. Locators often can vote on issues that causes nightmarish solutions without any technocratic approach. It’s a miracle if any „staircase” (all flats connected with one entrance) manages to vote in e.g. some solar pannels, external cleaning service, digital media usage meters or literally anything that would improve the community. Plan cities the way Soviets did, but exchange commieblocks with anything else. I was very sceptic, but after moving to the West, the typical for UK and NL red brick row houses seem to be a much better solution. I mean, if somebody should build commieblocks its Dutch with their limited soil. But Central and Eastern European states have more than enough land to build.

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

@@krzywygeneral thank u for ur peranal insight and im happy i havn't had to live in those conditions - with a governmetn that doesn't seam to care to much for the comfert of its people.

[@jeanlucdemeulemeester7677]

It is an example of brutalist architecture... Interesting. The issue of beautifulness is left to one's opinion. De gustibus non est disputandum.

[@gregwilvert]

Maybe you could show a map with the location of Kaliningrad?

[@phillipsexton9543]

Here's hoping with the fall of Putin the allies will march in, send the Russian people back home and re hand the "oblast" back to Germany. The artist was wrong though there is plenty of the old Konigsberg left, I know I've been there.

[@appleslover]

Make Kaliningrad Königsberg again

[@redacted2354]

No

[@erickgomez7775]

And make France the French Empire again! That would teach Prussians how to behave

[@appleslover]

@@erickgomez7775 and make the British empire great again and let them teach the ᖴᖇᗝǤᔕ how to behave properly

[@appleslover]

@@erickgomez7775 and make the British empire great again and let them teach the 🐸🐸🐸how to behave properly

[@lookash3048]

@@appleslover Make Berlin Slavic again!!!

[@guillermolimon9832]

make it a park

[@alisavdagic8116]

Why don't they just turn that building into missle silo for defence agaist agressive Poland? 😆

[@OpaSann0]

Who cares, blow that Sovjet garbage up already lol

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[@jakejrly1508]

Looks like China's tofu buildings

[@sarcasmo57]

I will buy it for 1 dollar

[@virtual30]

its Königsberg! Not Putingrad!

[@rodsmith8118]

It WAS Königsberg until 1946. It is Kaliningrad now and your denial doesn't change that fact.

[@virtual30]

Yes PUTIN ASSLICKER!!@@rodsmith8118

[@rodsmith8118]

@@virtual30 YOU are in denial and will stay in denial for the rest of your life. Putin was born six years AFTER the name was changed, you INCREDIBLE SCHOLAR!!

[@eddietat95]

If there's a structural issue or hazardous materials, one floor per year makes sense. You basically have to do a complete rebuild. The Soviets had horrible architecture and used garbage for construction materials.

[@ashwin372]

What a waste

[@prinzeugenius7907]

interesting video, thank you

[@findingjoy2657]

Soviet quality

[@dantebg100]

The new building would be even worst. It's Russia. Give it back to Germany

[@mindmybusynassm1645]

Who knows, whatever they like to do I am fine with it.

[@NpcFromEst]

Seen it in real life, it's massive, now I have a soft spot for this building😂

[@juleschasser2777]

They cut some patients in the mental hospital in Russia. They begin with the tongue, then hands and legs, but the patient is still alive. They use the circular electric saw.

[@Dweller415]

Stalin must’ve killed off all the top architects. What a freaking monstrosity.

[@fuckfannyfiddlefart]

He didn't but he should have, architects are AWFUL

[@mikeblatzheim2797]

Well, Stalin was actually a fan of decorated and Art Déco inspired designs, so Stalinist era buildings generally look really nice and well-decorated. But when Kruzchev came to power, that type of architecture was seen as decadent and western (and probably quite exensive), so all the formerly celebrated architects were 'relieved of duty'. Which is how the Soviet Union ended up with pre-fabricated apartment blocs and brutalist architecture.

[@fuckfannyfiddlefart]

@@mikeblatzheim2797 That was the fashion of the time in the West too.

[@alexchopov]

"it was nice when the city was German" - thats not what he said. He is talking about the old German architecture, not who the city belongs to. If you wanted to own Kaliningrad - maybe you should not have started that whole World War Two thing, and shouldnt have killed 27 million Soviet citizens. Nice try sneaking that line in, DW. But Kaliningrad is and will always be Russian!

[@pedrkbts]

That's what they said

[@losabias4723]

Oh yeah, of course Germany is the only one to blame for beginning the war invading Poland, of course the Soviet Union didn't invade Poland too, am I right?

[@lechistanvandal2938]

Krolewiec coming home soon

[@alimahh1]

Forget it, it's a german city

[@DanielKarnole-fs3hm]

Come and take it. This time we will make sure you have no blood left to reproduce.

[@ngakadaakhlak8314]

nice 👍🏼

[@zapfanzapfan]

Leave it as an open air art center for graffiti. Maybe use the sides as projection screens for other art installations?

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[@filyapanzerman335]

Koenigsberg is the original Germanic lands

[@metodiusm428]

It was inhabited by Baltic peoples before the Germans settled there

[@filyapanzerman335]

@@metodiusm428 but not russians

[@DgurlSunshine]

sad

[@UserAPJ58]

Can be donated to less privileged rather than demolished or atleast for orphanage.

[@FranFerioli]

They probably built it with the asbestos recycled from Chernobyl reactor.

[@Abcflc]

do you not understand what the video is explaining? just because the building is standing doesn't mean it is habitable: it needs to be renovated and the cost is too high.

[@ididntalwaysworkinspace9558]

Sad to see places taken from their people.(Constantinople, Etc). Prussia was seen as the cultural source of German aggression. Does that justify it? None of the sides were saints.

[@KateeAngel]

"their people". What's the criteria. Also while we're at it, maybe talk about you know, the Americas, or Australia, the whole continents taken from "their people"

[@ididntalwaysworkinspace9558]

@@KateeAngel In Seattle there are these streets with big houses on the beach with Native American names. I doubt anyone from those tribes could afford one of those houses.

[@saltymonke3682]

Königsberg should be returned to Germany.

[@goodwin224]

Give a land of your country to Germans. No problem

[@saltymonke3682]

@@goodwin224 so why are you in Crimea?

[@goodwin224]

@@saltymonke3682 why not? it's Russia's sovereign land. Take some history class if you can.

[@saltymonke3682]

@@goodwin224 So does Konigsberg, take some history class if you can.

[@elslayer6410]

@@saltymonke3682 how about the USA gives California Texas New Mexico and Arizona back to Mexico

[@BruceGoren]

Tiny, surrounded Kaliningrad should have been over-run by NATO when the Soviet Union fell. Now it is a base for Russian nuclear missiles aimed at the heart of Europe from within.

[@99munter]

i shaved my legs esterday and damn its growing back reall fast