Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Could Russia Actually Lose Kaliningrad?" video.

  1.  @matthewhuszarik4173  In the age of Atomic Weapons and ICBMs, such logic is totally outdated. There can NEVER be a buffer zone against an ICBM. It no longer has ANY meaning. Those nations around Russia are military pygmies. When Adolf invaded Denmark, the fight lasted a few hours. When Stalin invaded the Baltics, there never was a fight. The Finnish experience was convincing. They caved.
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  2.  @grundgesetzart.1463 No, no, no. They were ejected in the dead of Winter by the NKVD/KGB... and deliberately so. No-one was kicked out during the Summer season. Why? They did to the Krauts what the Germans did to them in 1941 -- when mothers and children, by the thousands, were ejected from their hovels by the Heer so that the troops could stay warm while the civilians froze in the snow... genocide without bullets. How do we know this? Self-confession is good for the soul -- when you're about to meet your maker. These tales all come from Germans. The Russian civilians never lived to pen their tale.
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  3. Paul, you've completely missed -- by a centimeter. The ex-patriate refugees from Moscow will gravitate towards Kaliningrad. Bet on it. THEY will be the soft power that drives Kaliningrad LIBERAL the moment Putin falls from grace, or the 17th floor, or.... On the economics, Kaliningrad is such a bleeder that anyone taking over Putin's chair will want it ejected. Finances will be THAT tight. Why do you think Moscow left the Warsaw Pact? Money. The (eastern) Europeans were living better than Russians -- and the Russians were paying for it. THIS was Yeltsin's argument. It won the day. Those in Kaliningrad ARE living better than those in Russia. When the troops rotate home, they're pissed. They go home to houses without electricity, plumbing, natural gas, petrol stations on every block, and mud 'roads' -- and so they spread the word. Heck, they don't even have washing machines, commodes, Internet. A long time back, Moscow realized that ONLY Moscovites and Leningraders can be posted in Kaliningrad for the above reason.
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