Youtube comments of Henning Bartels (@henningbartels6245).

  1. As a German I was first triggered by taking France as point of reference. Yes, France has great baguettes and pastries, but it is mainly wheat bread. Germany has a much larger variety of types of grains, doughs, shapes and colors. This has geographical reasons being in a transition zone where not only wheat grows, but also rye, oats and barley. I give it to the French: they are sometime better in presentation of baked goods.
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  2.  @MrTuxracer  sadly, that is true. But this is the case also in France.
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  3. I was once asked: what language do people speak in Germany? Actually it is probably a legitimate question, but at this moment I thought: what question? - it is so obvious: Germany = German. So (because it was at a party) I wanted to be funny and answered: "we speak Austrian". What now followed seemed dump because nobody laughted and they took it as a serious answer.
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  4. It was only part of Germany from 1871 on, because the German state was founded this year.
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  5. Okay, this cuddling is quite cude, but it is far more interesting, who re-arranges the pillows and throws several times a day: is it the cat; is it the dog,!? Are they doing it together? Are they discussing the designs and which one wins in such a discussion? Questions over questions...
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  6.  @maxpeine9888  Antisemitism has nothing to do with this military's goodbye ceremony.
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  7. Katerina M., I find it strange and depressing to see these young people "apolitical". In other countries their generation is most political, on protests, full of new ideas.
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  8.  @alexandrejuve1305  yes, it is, because traditionally wheat doesn't grow well everywhere in Germany. Okay nowadays it could be different with warmer weather and artificial fertiliser.
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  9.  @pommes0078  Prussia is older than a united Germany.
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  10. There is another difference with using the silverware. When Americans are just using the fork there is a tendency to rest the other hand in the lap underneath the table. That would raise eyebrows in Germany, because they are taught (no matter what) both hands have to be always visible on the table.
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  11. I believe the lack in offering help is probably with people who haven't lived abroad. They can't imaging your hurdles / problems, because everything is just "normal" and "ordinary" for them in Germany. And in this way I bet, it's the same the other way around when you are a German new to the states.
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  12. It seems always very wise to generalize about 40 million people, when you know one person....
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  13. The Latkes look very much like the German "Kartoffelpuffer", though you would get rid with some liquid, but not squeeze the potatoes totally dry. "Kartoffelpuffer" are usually eaten with some sugar sprinkle on top and apple sauce on the side.
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  14.  @wortilus7643  did someone say otherways? Prussia initiated the unification of modern Germany by bringing all kind of German states together (for example like Bavarians, Hessian, Saxon or Thurigian - which all were not Prussian) - but excluded Austria. In doing so Prussia was the biggest state with in the new Germany and were able to take on the ruling position: e.g. the Prussian king became the German emperor.
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  15. I've never heard of " the elegant and sophisticated people of Hanover". Their spoken version of German might be the closest to written standard German, but the people from Hanover are actually stereotyped as "boring" and "stubborn".
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  16. I think, there is another layer in this conflict. I believe Russians were told over decades that they are superior and the leading nation of the Soviet Union. If a smaller ethic group now doesn't want to be dominated by Russia, Russian culture and language, it is perceives as "they are taught from kindergarten to hate us".
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  17. why not moving there then?
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  18.  @thischanelnolongerexists9041  you can love your home country, but that doesn't mean you have to love war crimes and atrocities. Even because you love countries you name and acknowledge them and try to make things better that you really can be proud of what had been achieved.
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  19. the last one was the most relatable: what does Putler want with all this rubble which left there? On the other hand I can't make up my mind who is more disturbing: a) the supporters blindly repeating the propaganda or b) those uniterested, apoliticals who simply just don't care if people dying and whole cities are in ruins.
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  20. I would doubt he is originally from Berlin. There is something about him or his accent, that gives me the impression, he moved from Southern Germany to Berlin.
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  21.  @1MinuteFlipDoc , I was wondering about my reaction toward them. While the father (at least for me) comes accross as likeable his daughters are almost like a meme of spoiled brats, even the way they talk.
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  22.  @Lana.ru.  and when we know the history of Odesa, what does it matter for the people of the city today? Those people who founded Odesa are long dead. But hypothetically, if we know that Odesa was founded by Catherine the Great, should I draw conclusions out of it? With her being of German origin should we wonder if the city is German then?!? ;-) Well, and the city became part of Ukraine by establishing a separate Ukrainian entity, whether it was called Ukrainian Soviet Republic back then or similar. This was also 100 years ago.
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  23.  @StephenRosenbach  for me as a native German spoken Yiddish is sometimes easier to catch than to read phrases - I believe the transliteration often follows English pronucation and spelling rules which makes it confusing for me. So "Zog Nit Kayn Mol" uses an English "z" and "ay" which you have to realize...
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  24.  @pommes0078  there is no Prussia today (desolved in 1947) - but still Germany. You're just mixing up two categories - there is a connection but it is not the same.
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  25.  @pommes0078  not all German regions belonged to Prussia - not all Germans were Prussians. Once again you are mixing categories. Not sure if it helps to realize it when you hold your head like this.
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  26. Interesting perception.... is Frankfurt the capital of Germany?
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  27.  @clarimm6675  Putin's German is far better than Merkels Russian... since he lived in Germany for a while. I doubt, it is possible for a German to follow complicated political issues with school-Russian and without interpreter.
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  28. Yes, many know English quite well, which will be enough to explain something or get your point across. But at a party you want to just chitchat, tell something lightheaded or jokes... and I think, that is where many Germans struggle in English.
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  29.  @roysmith8679  the Polish partitions had nothing to do with the territory of todays Kalingrad oblast. I don't know why these topics are regularly mixed? The descendents of the Slavic tribes between Elbe and Oder river largely still live in this aera until today - disolved in German society. Though their number was not as large reflected in recent dna researches showing only a quarter of Slavic traces. In contrast, those descendents of the Slavic tribes east of the Oder river eg. in Pomerania, East brandenburg or Silesia were expelled like the rest of the German population by Polish authorityes after 1945. If they all were just "germanized Poles" as told in popular Polish narratives, I makes you wonder, why were they not allowed to stay in their hometowns. BTW, it is a bold lie that Germans don't help Ukrainians. There are currently far more than 700,000 Ukrainian refugees in Germany experiencing support from private persons and organisations as well as govermental in form of welfare and housing.
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  30. Abdullah, in my country we have a saying: you don't learn for school, you learn for life. In the life outside the campus there will be pale people, too ... and I don't see the educational benefit trying to close the eyes for the fact which the students will face later on anyhow. Wouldn't be a campus not good and controlled "test field" for a better co-existence.
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  31.  @StephenRosenbach  thanks for the detailed information. "zog" is just confusing for me at first glance, because it is a cognate to "sag" in Standard German and I would have transliterated it with "sog". While "zog" also exist in Standard German, but is the past of "ziehen" (to pull).
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  32. well, this is a popular myth. there is nothing left of the castle which named in honour of the Czech king and it had little in common with the city full of Russian concrete blocks of today.
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  33. Please note, cooking for less than 5 min just works because you just prepare variations of the button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) which can be eaten raw. Other mushroom varieties could raw poisonous (like morrels) should be cooked longer than 5 min or other are difficult to digest like Dark Honey Fungus (Armillaria ostoyae) if not cooked for 15 min.
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  34.  @verySharkey  pumpernickel is just something very special. But a lot of German bread is done with sour dough or various seeds - both very healthy. And that what comes down in the end: you want a delicious and healthy product.
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  35. When I was a kid we had often pigeons for dinner. My uncle bred pigeons for sport and those which were not strong enough or good at races ended up in a pot or oven. The brest meat and the drum sticks taste realy good, also some of the giblets like the heart or the kidney.
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  36. I have a question for the Swedish audience: I'm confused about "Saltgurka" ... it sounds like "Salzgurke" in German, which would be fermented in a salty brine. But it looked like a gherkin pickled in vinegar.
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  37. Very weird in many ways. First, It were the Russians who have been making Kalingrad to a highly militerized zone for decades ... not the neighbors. It is Russian media and Russian adminstration who put out threats to bomb European capitals from Kalinigrad - Poland or Lithuania never threaten to bomb Moscow! Secondly, even if NATO would do an operation on Kalingrad grounds, do this two hand full of men really prevent Nato troups from invading? Certainly not. Third, seeing an history teacher with imperial flag and stuff like this in his class room, tell a lot of the imperialistic mindset in Russian society. Fourth, there is little "most European" about Kalingrad. The Soviets expelled all former German inhabitans and others living there and resettled the area with mainly Russians. They didn't care about the historical traces of the city and turned it any other Russian city with boxy aparmentment blocks. Putting some fake halftimbered fassades infront of some concrete blocks doesn't bring Königsberg back. And finally, showcasing Kalingrad as a military trothy for investments in Poland is so out of mind: who really wants this run down strip of land full of Z-loving Russians. that would be rather a penalthy than a trophy.
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  38. Obviously more people can distinguish between countries and imperialistic leaders.
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  39. @Woitek, in my opinion, your observation is quite typical. There are many Russians who believe in the USSR everything was fine and all people lived happily together. That smaller nations and ethnic groups didn't all feel this way and rather felt suppressed and marginalised doesn't cross their mine, because it was all perfect for them as Russians.
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  40.  @brycea5452  even if you don't understand a word, it makes sense to learn some basic pronoucation rules. That would make it much easier to get the right drink or end up in the right train or bus.
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  41. there is some German linage in the royal family and the "House" (the family name) stayed German for a long time. But having a German surname (by your fathers linage) doesn't make you automatical German and it hides your maternal side. Only a part of the family tree has German origins. I'm convinced that this channel would have the potential to educate and bring some light what iss rather a myth of the "German Royal Family".
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  42. Milk prices have risen in Germany do to agrar-politics, better payment to famers and higher enviromental standards and higher standards for cattle keeping. There is no relation to Russia. Strangly butter prices even dropped.
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  43.  @emmahawker5832  I hope, it will be for long! But with Putler around you have to be fearful that something could happen to this beautiful city.
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  44. Dirk, what makes you support the Russian troops bombing and killing in Ukraine?
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  45. what a nonsense. In 1991 the Baltic nations expressed their will for sovereign, independent nations and as those sovereign, independent nations they joined the Nato.
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  46. contemperary "Labskaus" which is a regional dish in coastal Germany has a similar base, but also includes beetroot and gherkins and is served with pickled hering and an egg sunny side up. ... all things which can be easily taken on a ship trip.
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  47. I haven't been to Manchester in almost 15 years. Last time I was surpriced to see "Hacienda Apartments" instead of The Hacienda I knew from student times.
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  48.  @kohZeei  Mozart operas, Beethoven synphonies, Goethe poems, Alpine folk music, soft porn, ... you name it. ... or on the streets of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol, Luxembourg or Liechtenstein... but in this case it would mean you have to get up from couch and get yourseld an authentic impression. I know, that is asking for a lot...
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  49. I found it dubious too. Why do you need to come to Russia to be an crypto investor?!? You could do it from everywhere.
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  50. One feature he forgot: in Finnland it is common to have triple glassed windows.
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  51. any evidence of the basement-with-bag-on-your-head story? So far this was only reported from the territories Russia annexed.
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  52.  @sviatslife429  but how do you explain why the overwhelming majority, also in these Eastern areas, voted for an independent Ukraine in the 1990's?
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  53.  @britingermany  I would also use "Sie" in business situation if people are on different end of the contract. Other companies than IKEA and Zara try to communicate with "Du" to the customer... which I still find weird, since I want a good service not a new friend. If there are defects and my complains are answered with a flippant "Du" I don't feel taken seriously.
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  54. Yes, the ceremony was odd - but for other reasons... the played pop music on demands of Merkel, which was weirdly arranged for a military orchestra. Plus the broadcast in Germans public tv station had various technical faux-pas.
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  55. The "Hated" in the titel is more like clickbaiting than anything else.
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  56.  @arnolsi  Wake up and watch carefully. each year fruits and vegetables are very expensive around this time of the year. Gardners call May the "hungry gap". The new crop hasn't fully grown yet ... only the more expensive one in green houses - and the rest from last year's harvest is becoming costly in the storing facilities.
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  57.  @Lana.ru.  what is Russian about Odesa?
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  58.  @sanfersGameChannel  Unfortunatly everybody rather looses in a actual war. The shame is that Putler counts on an exhaustion war and does not care at all how many young Russian men will die for his weird ideas.
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  59. I believe, Germans think, they know a lot. I wonder, what happened, if your answer is direct and very specific, like naming a particular Afghan village or mentioning a rather unknown member of trump administration: would they admit that they are clueless or shy away and stop asking. Have you tried that? ;-)
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  60. Das kommt auf die Blickrichtung an. Er selber sitzt links.
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  61. I disliked the video and I tell you why: it's more the way he presented it in making fun of this almost 40 year old car. Although there were other types of cars they produced in "communism", this was the only car (besides a Wartburg) most East Germans could buy or even effort. Communism had an economy of scarcity and therefore there were even waiting list for this car. Nevertheless people were happy to have at least a car in the end and they share memories associated with this car - they went to work with it, for vacation, to the hospital for the first child or to the funeral of grandma. This car was part of their life, their vita. The way he presented makes fun of those peoples lives, too and reminds of those arrogant West Germans who came after the wall came done and explained to them: your cars were awful, your lives were crap - you are shit! No human being likes those humiliations.
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  62.  @NPJGlobal  OMG ... you don't get it? yes, France does excellent baguettes... but the US have good toast bread. But to speak about "bread" in general you should have a broader approach. France would be an excellent reference to discuss cheese in general. But here it has the slight after taste as if you take France as the reference for beer brewing without considering Belgium, Germany or Czechia.
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  63. two minor notes to the video: Roads were also paved in East Germany - there could have been potholes and crumbly street edges, but still. Smaller residendential lanes lacked sometimes pavement. The exchange rate from East Mark to West Mark was 2: 1 - only a small private base amount could be transfered 1:1.
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  64.  @guciodestroyer2432  The tale that the "Prussian spirit" was the cause for the world wars and the nazis is just some simple, cheap story you would even find within Germany. Btw, Prussia is also associated with enlightment, civil and religious liberties, with accepting refugees, economic grows and industrialisation.
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  65.  @TheMrPyatka  every life is worth living and every dead is unnecesary and has also impact on the vita of their families and relatives. This also applies to people killed by dubious "sepratists" in Donbas financed and supported by Ruzzia. BTW, your allias already illustrates what you are smoking.
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  66. @mystic: Don't take it to seriously. Wiking is not an ethnicity and your ancestors could be just boring farmers or fishermen.
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  67. But actually the "village zone" is just a certain type of "mixed use".
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  68. yes, some US Americans can be ignorant, but I have to say: most of the them have good heart and good intentions. Often I have the feeling, they just don't know any better and I start explaining. Once I experienced a very demanding American couple in a small restaurant in Croatia who got into a fight with the waiter, because he was only accepting Visa, MasterCard and American Express - but not the Diners Club Card they had (if I remember correctly). I explained them, how lucky they are, that they accept credit cards at all, because that what not necessarily the case in some random small restaurant in Germany.
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  69.  @pewdiepieeipeidwep3141  you totally missed Tiborg's point acting out of plain humanistic perspective - without your racists prejudgements.
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  70.  @kohZeei  yeah right, in movies, i guess ... let me guess a bit mor: movies with screaming nazis or spy movies with German villains...😂
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  71.  @superrelaxingwhitenoise3718  so you don't publish your "YouTube" videos?!
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  72. Bank and bench (both "Bank" in German) do have a connection. In the Middle Ages money deals (e.g. credits) were done on a wood bench (or table). In case the business went wrong the bench was broken as visual sign - hence "bank rupt".
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  73. Twinmama, I agree with using English terms when you can express a concept which doesn't exit in German like "computer" or "loft". But using "nice" instead of "nett" or "schön" ... or "händeln" instead of "handhaben" seems plain silly to me.
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  74. I understand this video is meant more for entertainment than for science, one has to point out there is no "German DNA" and popular DNA test kits would cluster Germany, Netherlands and Austria as one heritage regions because DNA markers are fairly the same.
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  75. thanks Kessy, for just creating an account for telling this story. I hope, it was a little lukrative, that you could buy an icecream in the park. People in Mariopul were not that fortunate. The tree in ithe city centre lost many branches.
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  76.  @Atomasd  I guess no records.
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  77.  @pommes0078  who said something has nothing to do with Germany? Your make-up argumentation is just hard to follow. Fact is a Prussian state does not exist anymore but roughly two third of its former territory still lays with in Germany. But not all of today's Germany are former Prussian territories, maybe just 50 %. So you see it is not the same. The same way that not all of Germany is Bavarian - even this is hard to believe for Americans.
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  78.  @Wild-Siberia  I don't know any Dutch, German, or Austrian or other central Europeans who "hate" Ukraine, Russia or the US. Most of them hate war and the senseless killing in Ukraine and they would hate, if Ruzzia would attack their countries, too.
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  79.  @StephenRosenbach  so according to the chart vowels are written in Yiddish. This is unlike in Hebrew, isn't it?! Btw, we would spell it "meschugge" and I would rather used it like: Das mach mich total meschugge. = (this and that) drives me mad. On a funny side note: I enjoyed when Mike Myers played Linda Richman on SNL and threw some Yiddish words in his sentences - though I don't know how accurate this type of parody was.
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  80.  @mysterioanonymous3206  the Ukraine conflict has nothing do with the country and its beauty you may want to visted. It has to do with politics. Though I have to say: I'm disappoined by ordinary Russian supporting Putin's politics and actions. It is their sons and brother who die in Ukraine as well.
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  81.  @sviatslife429  why are all the annexed territories inhabited by the pro-Russian population? Did the pro-Ukrainian poulation leave already?!
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  82. Preventing mold is probably the main reason, but also letting out smells, moisture and gases humans produce. In earlier times when people had burning stoves in their rooms it was probably to let out carbon oxide, too. The idea is also to do it just for a view minutes to exchange just the air, but not to cool out your walls and furniture.
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  83.  @igorpupkinable  so far Russia invaded neighbring countries and people in Russia openly threatened to invade even more. Neither Estonia nor Latvia did such a thing, does it now or speaks about doing it in future. Therefore the likelyhood that Russia just will do it ones again is much higher than other other countries doing a complete U-turn an suddendly do a policy like Russia.
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  84. The US American idea of "race" is strange and weird to me. I have no idea where one race starts and the other ends. Are Spaniards Hispanic or White? And is a person from Mexico with Spanish roots White? and with indigenous ancestors Native American or Hispanic? Is a Jewish person considered White or Middle Eastern? Is a Turk White, Asian or Middle Eastern?? No clue. This idea of a certain "race" is hard grab, especially in the Americas where people immigrated to from all different places. But if it's hard to define a "race" - how do I know, when a relationship is "interracial"?!?
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  85.  @ZER0ZER0SE7EN  there are so many stories and hoax about Pres. Obama, if you are lucky half of it is true.
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  86. As a German I find the whole unfortunate, too - but it is crying over spilled milk. The Brits, including the Scottish must look forward.
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  87.  @albrecht1990  Did you talk to 7.5 billion people?
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  88. There are a few minor odd moments in the video: - showing an historic image of Riga (not Königsberg) @3:39 - calling the river "(Oder-)Neeca" instead the local pronoucation "Neycu" - showing a photo of the regional parlament of the federal state of Brandenburg while talking about Germany's constitution @10:48
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  89.  @76arga  what Polish? Don't get it.
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  90. * feetjo
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  91. Naja, Vagabund ... das ist jetzt auch ein bisschen übertrieben dargestellt. Die Hanse hörte 1669 auf zu existieren. Dagegen existiert Preußen seit 1701 und hat Hochdeutsch als Schulsprache eingeführt. Der Niedergang des Niederdeutschen läuft schon seit mehr als 300 Jahren und hat mit den demographischen Veränderungen in Nachkriegsdeutschland noch mehr Fahrt aufgenommen.
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  92.  @corablunt-zy2be  but Norwegian would be Germanic, too
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  93. It is hard to understand, that he is not questioning himself, what is he doing there ... and taking territory street by street means leaving street by street in rubble. Plus the distorted impression who actually attacked who... I have little hope that a peaceful coexistance with such RuZzia can work in the near future when every single man is filled with years of propaganda.
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  94.  @НаталияВащенко-ю2х  1990? Ukraine became independent in 1991 - and in very same year people vote in a referrendum overwhelmingly for this independance, even 80% in the Donbas region. Russian was never forbiden, it didn't an official status - which it gained in 2012 and in the following became and official administrative language in a numner of districts in Ukraine. and after that Russian supportet and financed rebels try to destablize entire regions starting with 2014. But anyhow, what I find rather interesting: where do you get this "alternative" narrative from? Do they tell this on Russian state TV? Is it from social media like VK, Telegram or TikTok? Or are these hear-say-stories from friends?
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  95.  @RussianHomesteadGirl-kz6df  Don't know. I guess, they probably can effort less than Solowjow-Göbbels would pay to so-called Russian village girls.
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  96. My grandma made hot chocolate soup for me as well when I was a kid - but usually for lunch. She was from North-East-Germany. Maybe its a regional thing? It's more a thinner, warm chocolate pudding. It is made with additional eggs: while the yolks are mixed amoung the soup, the egg whites are beaten and formed to a sort of dumplings and are added to the soup in the last minute. Through the remaining heat these dumpling get stiff. It sounds that Sarah Chalkes grandma did a simular effect with the whipped cream on top.
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  97. this is great to hear. I was born and grew up in an Eastern suburb of Magdeburg, a village founded by Dutch settlers. In the area between Magdeburg and Berlin you often find Dutch connections in the local history, but I guess, it is not information easily available to Dutch tourist.
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  98.  @igorpupkinable  what is free about South Ossetia and Abkhazia ? People expelled from there by ethic cleansing already have trouble visiting.
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  99. I was not aware that you would translate the (German) names of the architects like Johannes Hültz or Ulrich von Ensingen in to French and then take those translations into the English commentation. Why did the staircase of the spire had to be "like all cathedrals in France"? ... when the Alsace was not even a part of France at the time and the architects had rather connections to Freiburg or Ulm or even Prague.
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  100.  @arty5876  feeding the cliche of the selfish, arrogant Russian ... well done!
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  101.  @barfuss2007 , in der Zeit, in der der Osten 2 Billionen aus dem Bundeshaushalt gekommen hat, hat der Westen 9 Billionen erhalten. Das ist nun mal so, wenn man einen gemeinsamen Bundeshaushalt hat. Aber darüber sprechen die Milchmädchenrechnungsfachkräfte nicht.
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  102. Probably, because they are on opposite sides of the bay (small fjord). But from a today's tourist point, both places are very close together: there is basically just the museum, a chapel and a camping site in Haitabu today, but no real settlement - while Schleswig next to it is a town that offers restaurants, shops, accomondation ...
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  103.  @franco3190  to amuse oneself that the guy is ranking Germans, Japanese and Paraguayans but ranking worlds in 1st .... 3rd in the next sentence sounds ironical. I wonder, where the 2nd world is today ... and if the 1st world is three times "better" than Paraguay?!?
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  104.  @fistofdragony3213  maybe Gigi wanted to express her symphaties and that she could relate to Angela - for not being part of a elite group of West German white men.
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  105.  @tomasvrabec1845  there are more 50 shades of gray than your black and white divide. Yes there are differences between the various regions within Germany and there are probably some overlapping. Please be reminded: Correlation does not imply causation. "Catholics vs protestants" is also not that black-and white there, since many regions are mixed and you will find always a ration of the main 3 groups: catholics, protestants and non-believers. Polabian Slavic culture is not alive anymore in Germany, they were fully assimilated by the 1800's, And East Germany is not largely composed of Slavic peoples, since the Slavic population was not very dense in the 8th to 10th century in these areas. If you will do modern DNA research you will find about 25% of gene traces which corroletes to the population ratio of local Slavs and 75% Germanic settlers moving starting from the 9th century.
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  106. can you compare your salary to an Italian?
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  107. It looked more like carneval - not so spooky and yucky as Halloween.
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  108. Dutch love pedestrians on their bike lanes, don't they?! 😉🤣
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  109.  @Jusedss  All?!? It does not seem so obvious to me. According to census: by far most inhabitans are Ukrainian citizen and have no Russian citizenship. Are this 1 million non- existing or non-human? 71 % of the inhabitans don't consider themselves not as etnic Russians. Are those non- existing or non-human? 35 % don't even use Russian at home. Are those non- existing or non-human? Where does this ignorance or arrogance come from believing that everyone is or wants to become Russian. Does it comes frome decades or centuries of propaganda? I'm really curious.
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  110.  @traderjoes8725  there is no Prussia anymore as of today in 2022. The Prussian state was officially desolved in 1947. As for the East Prussian province of this Prussian state: it was annexed by Poland and Russia after 1945. Almost all German inhabitans were expelled (or they fled before and were not allowed to return). There are a few German descendants in the part now belonging to Poland and there are a few Russia-German citizens of Russia living in the Russian Kalinigrad part. While the Polish authority are eager to restore historic monument - on the Russian side there is merely neglect to anything with would remind of German hisory. In contrast, today's California is part of today's USA and is inhabited by a thumping majority of US Americans.
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  111.  @hazmanriess8949  is this nonsense or a conspiracy theory? If you remove an U and S and add an E - you will get Persian? Does that mean the Iran comes in??22??
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  112. @Panama Red it is very unlikely, that the Slavic population was expelled - there would be no reason for it und I doubt you would find any record of it. A totally different effect happened: the area was sparsely popupulated with small Slavic villages. Over the time of centuries more and more people from more densely populated areas in the West moved in - from areas which are today in Germany, Netherland or Belgium. They founded bigger villages, built towns and the poulation grew significantly, I guess even through better living condition and outnumbered the original few Slavic people. It could be that there was some discrimination in medieval times - likewise with the Jewish population, but this whole narrative of expelling, fighting etc. is rather an exaggerated Polish propaganda after 1945 to justify the total expulsion of the German speaking population from the new Poland territory.
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  113.  @MrJarower  these are just your own speculations. One can also speculate that Poland would not support Germany the same way - considering the constant anti-German sentiment by Polish politicts. Which decisions about blocking military help to Ukraine are you talking about? I have to admit, Germany doesn't play a leading, shinig roll here. But I'm tired of this constant Germany-bashing. Especially when watching this videos with mentioning the concerns of the 1990's that Germany could ever have a leading rule in Europe again. Germany did not 'fed the monster' in the last 20 years more than other neighboring countries did, notabably Poland, Hungary etc. Where was the Polish effort of reducing the dependence on Russian fossil fuels in the last 20 years, where their effort to invest in renewable energies. When placing messuring standards on other, one should ask himself: could I myself fullfill those standards?! I also wonder, what is "modest" in regards to help for Ukrainian refugees? Is the help elsewhere "exuberant"?- are there free loans, cars or mansions offered in Poland?
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  114. SamuraiWay, it is gross violation of the UN charter. Period. If you want to to relativize it or write some whataboutism stands on another page.
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  115.  @rudelverni  , I totally agree with you and made simular experiences with English or American friends: you can have a whole conversation over the weather and they still don't get your version of "wind" because it sounds a bit like "VindT" as Felicia has described it.
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  116. extremly good, informative and well balanced video.
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  117.  @soocccermommy1326  who needs devaluating generalizations in this moment??
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  118. the argumentation is a bit twisted - asking tourist about a non-existent title. How should they know about if the title don't exist right now and therefore is not part of a current marketing concept for the city.
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  119.  @Liktor67 , but not in this density and well preseved state as in the Alsace.
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  120. Politness is a way of showings respect in social interactions. And honesty is also a way of showing respect in social interactions for Germans.
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  121. the video mentions a cultural misunderstanding by putting an alleged "anglosphere or Asian politeness" versus a alleged "German rudeness" without hitting an essential point: politeness is a way to show respect in social interaction. How to show respect might vary from country to country. German bluntness and direct way might be regarded as being respectful in Germany as well, since it values honesty higher.
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  122. I'm Germany and I familiar with Huntracony's system counting seconds saying "einundzwanzig, zweiundzwanzig, ...
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  123. the Wikingerschänke mentioned rather wants to entertain tourist and doesn't really want to please historians - but there are other restaurants and cafes in Schleswig were rather contemporary German creamcakes or fried whole plaice are very good.
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  124. Just in case somebody thinks about it, I already own all rights for Spray Mett and Spray Zwiebeln for the US market. ;-)
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  125. he is not even trying.
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  126. the video was ment seriously.
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  127.  @MsPandachen , Putin was stationed in Dresden: maybe he learned how to immitate an Upper Saxon accent there - thought I've never heard this accent from him when he gave interviews or speaches in German. He clearly has an foreign accent in German - but you might not identify it as a Russian accent in the first moment.
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  128.  @kohZeei  have you ever bee to Germany or an other German speaking country?
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  129. I hope, this attack turns in something positive and makes people in Moscow aware what people in Ukraine have to experience on a daily basis and maybe it creates some emphaties for those who suffer under Russian agression in Ukraine every day.
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  130. The Austrian "Eierschwammerl" would be "Pfifferlinge" in Northern Germany or chanterelle in English. Though the usual Golden chanterelle seems to be only native to Europe, there are many more similar varieties from the same mushroom family, with a few varieties also native to the US. There are canned chanterelles here in Europe, but they don't taste the same - they are preserved in some acid water. The fresh mushrooms are much better.
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  131. What kind of alternative history is that?
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  132.  @stephenpurves2590  correct, you are right. That is what the people were told in Russia for decades, that the eastern half of the continent should be grateful for the sacrifice the Russian people made for them.
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  133. what has Nato to do with this, how those guys feel. If they need an imaginary enemy to create their identy, it is rather sad.
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  134. great video and very interesting ! Also interesting to find out that Germany is regarded as Northwestern Europe - a view not very common to Germans. Actually, "butterfly" and "Schmetterling" are very similar words - even by the meaning of the word parts - except a German comedian screams the latter.
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  135. I can believe, that Putin is well calculating man on a geopolitical task. But "the task of the survival of Russian statehood" sounds odd and not very plausible. But maybe this is really what he fears: with democracy sneeking in via Ukraine and with the constructed picture of an external enemy people could indeed abandon his power elite in Moscow and Russia would desolve in smaller units like the Soviet Union did.
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  136. Roland, I would say, Yiddish is rather based on old Southwestern German. When a Yiddish speaker uses "tell" then it is most likely borrowed from English than from the North German "vertellen".
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  137. it is not a beauty in my opion - which also a result of the Unesco discussion: the arch of the bridge is weirdly shallow, which was probably done to reduce its visual impact. Even weirder is the fact that the bridge ends up in a tunnel on the northern bank, which really leads to the question why they didn't extend the a tunnel underneath the river and solved the bridge problem this way.
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  138. These Polish scarestories from 75 years ago are getting tiresome.
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  139. Drying racks are fairly common also in the rest of Europe.
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  140. Luc R, how old are you? I have Alsatian friends in their 40's and they were not allowd to speak Alsacian / German in school. If I go to Alcace I can clearly notice a difference. Locals which are older than 50 often speak German with an Alsacian/ Allemanic accent. But the younger crowd - like 30 or less speaks German with a French accent. It seems that they don't speak Alsacian/German at home, they only learn it at school from French teachers.
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  141. Let me guess - you've never been to Russia?
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  142. Nein, es hat aber gemeinsame Wurzeln und ist dem Englischen dabei näher als Hochdeutsch.
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  143. You will be surprised how little Germany cares about Poland and how purely the German intelligence service does his regular job. "Spying Poland" has probably the same priority as spying Austria or Lesotho = none!
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  144. Though people have still regional accents or dropping part of the words or connect two words as part of the colloquial language. Also people in Northern Germany will use terms and expressions a High German speaker from Hesse or Bavaria won't use.
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  145. exactly. It is still interestion , because it could be different to the House in their name suggest.
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  146. It looks that he is not able to fully close his eyes ... poor cat.
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  147.  @dannylojkovic5205  im Deutschen kann etwas "Sinn haben" oder "Sinn ergeben". "Sinn machen" ist eine neumodische Spiegelübersetzung aus dem Englischen.
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  148. Graup, I'm not sure about your suggestions: in Leipzig you will find only single buildings of soviet style in the city center, not like an ensemble like in Berlin. The same with Dresden, Cottbus and Halle. In Halle, there is Halle-Neustadt - a whole suburb outside the centre with soviet style appartment blocks. Maybe Eisenhüttenstadt wouls be interesting in this regard.
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  149.  @OutragedPufferfish  "Ever since this conflict started I've been dreaming of returning to Russia"
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  150.  @cristitanase6130  What is what? What is not? Not really detailed information the readers of the comments would benefit from.
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  151.  @sanfersGameChannel  who of the commentators are you referring to?
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  152. In which regard? I just wrote common knowledge - nothing special.
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  153.  @philippmaurer5722 , I wonder what that would be? Don't confuse the geographical region East Prussia with the adminstrative Prussian state. The Prussian state's territory would include Trier in Southwest to Görlitz in the East or Flensburg in the North. Reducing it to Berlin or some dubious east cities is not accurate. The only thing I can think of are the Prussian normed school buildings which are often still in use today. Or that Saxony-Anhalt is the only federal state which has a Prussian eagle in its coat of arms ... but besides that?!? There is a lot of myth which is created ... you, just mentioning Berlin, seem to be a victim of this myth building.
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  154.  @saintsone7877  I wonder, where comes this desire to mix up the topic of areas which were part of the HRE , Bohemia or Austria and populated with German speaking people since the 13th centuries with the topic of the partition of Poland in 1795?!? The same here: the Kaliningrad / Königsberg region has nothing to do with some partition of Poland in 1795... For the term "Germanized Poles" you would need Poles in the first place in order to "germanize" them. Not all ancient Slavic people were Poles. And the ancient Baltic people in the Kaliningrad area were even less Polish at all. Setting a certain language for teaching in school seemed to be a standard process in various countries. Prussia did it with German in school. But Poland did it after 1920 as well, when only Polish was allowed in schools, eben in the German speaking communities. France has these policies until today, where lesson are not taught in local Breton or German, but only in French. Btw, history is always a reflection done by the present. This becomes pretty obvious - not only regarding the history twisted by the nazis - but also the twist and mixes of history done in Poland to justify the policies after 1945.
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  155.  @krisssmike3378  true.
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  156. To be an ethnic group you don't have to have the same ancestors. And from sharing an ancestor you can still split in several ethnic groups.
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  157.  @bramjoziasse , is this the influence of former Dutch colonies like Indonesia?
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  158. Irgendwelchen Pfeifen, die tagsüber in einer Plattenbausiedlung rumhängen, auch noch ein Sprachrohr zu geben, ist bestimmt eine große journalistische Leistung.
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  159. witty is right: it is very unusual to eat Fleischsalat purely - you would rather use is as a spread on a roll or piece of bread. often you would combine these cold cuts: the Blutwurst with a pinch of mustard, the Leberwurst with a pickle or the Sülze with Remolade sauce. Actually, I was expacting to see some Griebenschmalz in the taste testing. ;-)
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  160.  @RussianHomesteadGirl-kz6df  I don't eat these cipso chips, actually I don't eat chips at all. Well showing emphaty towards people being killed and bombed in Ukraine is "complaining" for you? Interesting. Well, I guess, living as a girl in Russian village makes you free from human emotions and let's you just function as a propaganda robot. There seems to be more truth than comedy to Olya, a fellow Russian village girl. https://youtu.be/evDuWHObOOc
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  161. ​ 🐶милка🐶  do you live in Ukraine... and where about?!? Apropos propaganda: I watch your video from March 22 ... full of propaganda phrases... you seem to be expert, indeed.
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  162. "Got rid" makes this process full of hardship and economical consequences sound so banal.
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  163. "Roggen" is rye in English.
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  164. it is rather unusual in public toilets in Germany, even to find such a sign. Normally, public toilets have also urinals - so the question whether to sit down to pee becomes obsolete. I would guess, you would find such sign maybe in a small cafe which has only one unisex restroom.
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  165. In Germany they compained for the reducing of 1 degree and it was done in the room temperature in offices of public instutions, but also in the water temperature in public pools. Due to the mild the energy saving goals were quickly reached and by the end of the winter many offices and pools returned to the usual temperature.
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  166.  @pzakp311  they have an outdoor area, too - where they entertain with activites like axe throwing and such. For me as a modern German I'm rather concerned with questions like if the dishwasher really gets the drinking horns clean etc. ;-)
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  167. none of both invented anything.
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  168. see what? Did you watch the video at all?
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  169. These experiences are also troublesome in the opposite direction as German working in the US. When asked about technical problems at work, "everything was fine" for my American colleagues. But I in my German mentally named certain problems with a this interface or that programm, which in the end was regarded as if I were the only one with these problems and the information was not valued as benificial for a possible improvement.
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  170. Germany as a nation state came about in 1871. So details at the entry to the United States could be confusing - depending on which time the came. Immigrants from the Alsace region could be registered as German in on decade and as French in the next. Austrians or Swiss could be registered seperately or as German as well... and so on. Simular to the dna results: it is very hard for those commercial tests to tell Germans, Austrians, South Tyrolian, Swiss, Nothern French, Belgian, Luxembourgian or Dutch apart if not impossible by those genetic traces. Often they are just grouped together.
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  171. Gary, her first name was Melitta , which is still a popular coffee filter brand in Germany.
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  172. That's nonsense.
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  173.  @Anri6547  Rob's observations is no reason to make wilsd asumptions about the East. These assumptions are exactly what Rob was talking about and you just proved the pattern.
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  174.  @Anri6547  what does the vote in Thuringia tell you - that ends up in generalisations and asumptions about all "in the east"?
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  175.  @bullzdawguk , I was an exchange student in 95 and went a couple of times to the Hacienda. Great parties, though coming from provincial Germany it was interesting to see the consumption of many fancy colourful pills there.
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  176.  @lukasnummer1  can you?
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  177.  @Serenity_Dee  *Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch. the is an ad promoting the Southwestern region, which is often high tech but has a thick accent.
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  178.  @Vertifuge  have you been exposed to various British and Irish regions yet? I think, you will change your judgement.
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  179. Alasdair, they simply had to. Within a few months time all laws, regulations, education systems, even property situations changed completely. One could say... almost everything. But for the West German nothing or tiny bits changed, which let to the common misunderstanding like "what is so problematic for those Easterners?!"
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  180. Indeed Thuringia can be very idyllic and probably very fitting for the idea of fairy tale Germany of American tourists.
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  181. I doubt, commercialism hasn't reached Germany yet... though there is a different preference for Christmas lights: colourful and flashy displays as in the US are rather considered as tacky or kitschy in Germany... while single coloured, mostly warm white lights are considered as cozy/ gemütlich.
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  182. aha? Quellen?
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  183. @Sarah, could the "tu" be a grammar mistake? If you are in a business situation in Germany and you don't know the person - it should be still the formal "Sie". If it is more a colleague situation or you already have worked in projects together in sort of team (despite being from different companies) applying the informal "Du" is getting more and more common. It also depends on the business branch: in some "hip" webdesign business informalities could be find more often. It also depends on the region: Berlin is infamously known for using an informal "wir" (we) but meaning you. In my northern region it is often an informal plural "ihr /euch", which avoids the personal informal "du" but shows more informality than "Sie/Ihnen".
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  184.  @sarahnd  that's sound very much like this type of IKEA online order website. They often write "Du" and "Euch" ... maybe to show this is the relaxed Scandinavian way of doing business ... or even try to create the idea of being one big happy family in the IKEA* world. (* or any other given company) To some younger German customers that might appear as cool. They also follow their favourite influencers daily as if they were part of their family life and not as someone trying to sell a product. But many midage and older German customers experience this "Du" approach of companies as fake and irritating, like:"I want to be respected as a customer - I'm not looking to make friends here."
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  185. ja, da hat der Donald etwas missverstanden. Ausländische Regierungen lachen nicht über die USA aber über ihn.
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  186.  @matthewnienkirchen8083  Strange way of argumentation: telling others they are clueless and what they are supposed think. A discussion is also about getting to known different perspectives to the topic and not:my opinion is the only and best.
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  187.  @kevinallwood2730  I doubt that you personally fought against Hitler. You just took about these things. Coming from a former communist country, it is not easy to decide how much to risk. Sometimes there are relatives who need you and can't just run away or you are no help when in prison. You don't want to put friends and family in danger. It is easy to judge and talk about if you don't face the consequences... Though I have to say being apolitical doesn't mean not showing any empathy with the Ukrainian victims.
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  188.  @piccalillipit9211  Britain is good for printing images of the royal family on tea mugs. ;-) Honestly, Britain makes good cheese, but nobody really knows about it - I would guess, not even most Brits.
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  189.  @anonymus4683 did you know that exchanging opinions and information within a discussion can also be done in a respectful manner?
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  190. Is this sarcastic?
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  191.  @almitrondecepticon2091  want kind of refund would Kalingrad be? A costly, run-down small strip of land, full of Z-loving Russians! That is a penalty - not a trophy!
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  192. Sounds like a conspiracy theory.
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  193. I doubt you will learn Arabic, even in 30 years.
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  194. Is this a recent trend? Poland is not know as a beer nation and having a beer drinking cultures with a lot of pubs...
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  195. The concept of “blue blood” is also the term in German: blaues Blut.
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  196.  @user-vp4kx1qi6t  it is obvious: the people who live in Mariupol would like to sit in a nice park in there how town right now and probably like to have an ice cream. But they didn't have a chance.
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  197. where does this Polish myth come from? is it taught in Polish schools?
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  198. The population of Sileaia was in the vaste majority German speaking before the war. The uprisings and desputes concerned Upper Silesia, not Central and Lower Silesia. Yes, it is a broad generalisation, but is closer to the truth, than the term "the lands RETURNED to Poland".
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  199. He had no balls - shooting himself cowardly without taking any responsibility.
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  200. *German's
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  201.  @OutragedPufferfish  there might be a few reasons to move to Russia, like nature or remoteness or mentality ... but having the conflict as a reason is rather odd.
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  202. mann, mann, mann ...(schon eher schlechte Reportage): den Butzbacher "Wessis" werden die Vorurteile in den Mund gelegt. Wieviele städtebaulichen Fördermittel eine hessischische Stadt in 30 Jahren so im Durchschnitt bekommt, wird nicht genannt. Und narürlich kam das Dritte Reich im DDR-Unterricht vor - naja, es ist sicher nicht so schwer ein altes DDR-Geschichtsbuch zu finden und auf die betreffenden Seiten zu schauen.
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  203. interesting perspective ... but a bit dubious considering how many imigrants and foreigners live and work in England.
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  204.  @cristitanase6130  an argumention without further added value.
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  205.  @ОлегВладимирский-г9я  "we take, what belongs to us" ... really sounds like quotes from nazi Germany. Some RuZzians don't really realise how similar their aggressive and imperialistic argumentation is.
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  206. ​ @vera.1897  The Russian Federation is not the Soviet Union either and if an aggressive imperialistic dictator Putler deserve to own it, is an equal question. Noone likes fascists - yet why do Ruzzians not reflect their own fascist behaviour and gangs first is a question which arises.
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  207.  @iraqian-odessit  Nenka?!? What is this? You seem to assume and predict a lot ... could you assume Friday's lottery numbers by any chance as well and send them to me?! I promise,I will donate half the winning to Ukrainian refugees!
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  208. There is a Chinese saying: "memory is a painter with golden colour" In retrospective many things look nicer.
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  209.  @philippmaurer5722  I don't get this "is" in your sentences. There IS no Prussia today. It WAS a historic German territory.
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  210.  @deepb249  just nonsense.
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  211.  @MrJarower devaluation of other perspectives accompanied with personal insults are never a base for a fruitful discussion. BTW, the aim of a discussion is not agree in every point - it is also a good chance to exchange detailed information on the topic or to get to know and to understand the perspective of the other. By insulting others you are missing out on this chance. FYI, panning of NS1 startet in 1997 and as been in use since 2012; planning for NS2 started in 2013 with completion planned in 2021.
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  212.  @Antares-mo6xh  Since the city was called Kaliningrad in 1946 it has never been a part of Poland and there is hardly anything Polish about it. Do you know any historic seal of the city or official document by the city where the name Krolewiec was used? It might be the Polish name but rather an exonym. And Königsberg does not mean king's land but king's mount - referring to the fortress. The Teotonic knights were invited because the Polish king was laking ressources to conquer and control these lands of the Baltic Prussians The area was depend from the Polish king for a while, but autonomous. Canada was also dependent from the Queen of England - but that doesn't make it a part of England. Königsberg was predominantly German speaking starting from the 13th centuries because German and speaking people moved there and the city was thriving because of this merchants and craftsmen. Nobody killed Poles there because hardly any lived there. There was no Germany in the 17th century- in order to attack Poland. East Prussia has nothing to do with the later partitions of Poland done by Russia, Austria and the state of Prussia. This Prussian state including Königsberg became part of an united Germany in 1871 - there was no need to occupy Köningsberg. I wonder where did you get this alternative history from? It would be even more interesting to find out, if this is a common tale in Poland?
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  213.  @Future183  who is "we"? I'm definitly not 5000 years old! How would you know that a 5000 years old skelleton is "German" or spoke German? What kind of nonsense is that? Linguists define the time around 700 AD when Old German seperated as it's own from other Germanic dialects. Besides there were findings in Czechia and Austria which show that this part of Europe was populated 40,000 years ago.
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  214.  @Future183  there was no state Germany 5000 years ago. Neither there was a distinct German language 5000 years ago. Language and culture are social phenomenon and do not necessarily have to do with dna. Some migration movement can be explained by the dna traces the migrating people brought with them. For example there nothing from the language left of the Germanic people migrating to Spain or North Africa, though there dna traces might exist. On the other hand Hungarians or Turks use a distinct language not related to the surrounding people, yet dna wise they are very similar to the neighbors.
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  215.  @Future183  I'm not your dude nor your bro, because I don't wan't to associated with the historical nonsense you write. Protogermanic, which was not German, but the ancestor of the Germanic languages, like the Scandinavian languages, Dutch, English, German etc. spread the earliest 3000 years ago, probably 2700 years ago to Central Europe, reaching the south of todays Germany 2000 years ago. Before that, especially in totays Southern Germany Celtic languages were spoken. It might blow your mind but all Europeans are result of several migration waves. They mixed and adopted cultures or languages as well. Germany was formed from various tribes and groups. What connected them later was the German language. Scientists (not bros from Youtube university) date the eartliest state of this seperate language 1300 years ago.
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  216.  @Future183  yeah right, Celtic is a Germanic language!!11!!1 Have fun talking to a Welsh or Gaelic speaker and try to find similarities! Ha, ha!!🤣😂 What do your skelleton stories have to do with German unity?
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  217.  @Future183  German: Fisch - English: fish - Welsh: pysgodyn German: Butter - English: butter - Welsh: menyn German: Wasser - English: water - Welsh: dwr
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  218.  @Future183  yet, it is not similar to Celtic languages like Gaelic, Welsh, Breton - despite you are telling this.
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  219. Did Habsburg-Austrians and Prussians speak no German? Do weird Polish calculations really matter when the majority of the town' population from the mid 1200's until 1945 spoke German - until they were forcefully expelled or prohibited to return to their hometown.
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  220.  @Gustavlanderholm  Max's pronunciation was far from being German ... so I thought it must be some special Swedish accent?!
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  221.  @OutragedPufferfish  how many Russian civilians were killed in "Donbass in 7 years"? And what did these Russians "civilians" do there in Ukraine? Were these Russian mercenaries by chance - financed and sent by Moscow?
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  222.  @ОлекЛис  were do you get this scare stories from? Is Solowjow screaming such weird stuff on Russian tv? So far I've only seen RuZZia carefully deciding when to invade neighbors when they are in a weak position.
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  223. well, other Western Germanic Language like German or Dutch would use word like parliament, price or music today to - so not only English borrowed loan words. As a German speaker I wounder, if English borrowed niece, nephew, uncle and cousin from French, how did Nichte, Neffe, Onkel und Cousin get into German?! And when the Germanic king's sword only becomes the sword of the king via French Grammar ... how did German manage to have three ways: "des Königs Schwert", "das Schwert des Königs" and "das Schwert vom König".
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  224. to give you a perspective from inside Germany: The German language is the key criteria of German identy. That is how the state came about, when 150 (or 200) years ago efforts were made to UNIT all GERMAN-SPEAKING people. Historically the territory was all kinds of seperate kingdoms etc. Therefore it feel dubious for someone from Germany, if they meet people who say they are German or partly German and don't speak the language.
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  225.  @ОлКрас  are you talking about the friendly Polish neighbors Russia attacked and invaded in 1941?
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  226.  @StephenRosenbach  did you know that Germans wish for happy new year: guten Rutsch! = (have a) good slide! - which is a bit odd. So some believe that the odd "Rutsch" came via Yiddish from Rosch ha-Schana, which linguist debate. Some Polish speakers use Kurwa all the time, but more in a sense of the f-word or 'dammit'.
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  227. Breslau was populated with German speaking folk after the devastating of Mongols in 1241 ... and so much that the local duke order the position of a German mayor. So if the ruler of a city is the mayor representing the majority of the city's population you can do your own math. Where does this "200 year" stuff come from - do they teach this in Polish schools?
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  228. it is rather unusual in public toilets in Germany, even to find such a sign. Normally, public toilets have also urinals - so the question whether to sit down to pee becomes obsolete. I would guess, you would find such sign maybe in a small cafe which has only one unisex restroom.
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  229.  @xapbotx170  what is Cipso? a Turkish crisp brand? How much does a bag of these chips cost?
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  230.  @RussianHomesteadGirl-kz6df  why should I? What about you? Can you live from your comments or is it just a welcomed extra?!
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  231. ​ 🐶милка🐶  how did the 75% Russian get into Ukraine?? Did they move there in the last year?
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  232. ​ 🐶милка🐶  if you don't facts everybody can find on wikipedia, then you should start a discussion there!
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  233. ​ 🐶милка🐶  where is your source then?!? If you are smarter than housewives, go ahead and improve it! But there is the chance that the housewives identify your tales as false facts.
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  234. Poor America, if that is your standard.
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  235.  @jamescook7796  you might be right ... I can imagine they come from this American paper bag culture to cover up your alcohol ... they are just nicer than paper bags.
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  236. Well there is two things to consider: After the war there were a lot to refugees from the former German East. In some regions every second or third person was a refugee. That let to an development that people spoke less local dialect to understand each other. And after the war mass media like radio and tv were more consumed which also let to a certain type of standardize German.
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  237.  @no_clot_shot1128  I've practiced in school (former East Germany) how to immediatly throw on the ground and cover up your face in case of a nuclear attack. We also practiced turning a shopping bag / plastic bag and a tea towel into mask against the nuclear dust.
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  238.  @asfdasfd2  how many Czechs live in Kalingrad right now and took part in the referendum?
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  239.  @loicrodriguez2532  this was mostly relevant for families owning a farm, since spliting up the land and the estate would destroy the economic base of the farm. As Martina wrote the other siblings would get a finacial share. This principle is still in use in north-west Germany where you have still state laws that only one child can enherit the entire farm - called "Höfeordnung".
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  240. Maybe it is hard to imagine for some Russians that economies could be based on other things then fossil fuels and wappons.
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  241. "unclaimed territories" sounded so much like the europaens settles grabbing land from the native Amerindians.
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  242. R2oor, the adjacent are of "Bohemian Switzerland" in the Czech Republic is beautiful, too ... maybe a bit wilder and less touristy.
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  243. thanks god, the majority here are not such "we"-s.
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  244.  @voidwalker9223  I do think, there are similarities between US Americans and Russians in their arrogance or ignorance and in the big difference between how they see themselves and how they are viewed from outside. In the way Americans think they are the country of immigrants from all over the world: so why should be interested in the world, if we have it all at home?! In a similar way Russian think: we are sooo accepting - during the USSR we let all kind of people live with us ... not realising that some of the smaller nations and ethnic groups felt surpressed, marginalized and even terrorized by some military actions.
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  245. Comrade, try to get good school result in Pakistan and then come for studying to Germany and see if you like it here. There quite a number of students here from Pakistan. Places for studying medicine are restricted on German universities - so first you need good marks ...
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  246. I'm sorry that you made your experiences with correcting the English of Germans . In general Germans would be very grateful if someone corrects their English or gives hints. I wonder, what a German would say when moving in the opposite direction. I doubt that the US or the UK would have a "welcoming culture" to fulfill all those expectations? There you also have to learn the language and have to adapt to cultural norms.
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  247. outstanding initiative!
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  248.    , " 30-million armed citizens to back him" - what a sad country and certainly not the greatest democracy in earth, if that is the approach.
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  249.  @deniskosian2934  Yes. as the article you have linked says: republics not participating in the Soviet referendums: An official referendum had been held in Estonia on 3 March 1991 on whether to restore the Estonian republic that had been occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940. The result was 77.8% in favour of restoring the Estonian republic. Latvia also held an official referendum on 3 March 1991, when the overwhelming majority voted to restore the independent Latvian republic. Lithuania had held a referendum on 9 February 1991, in which 93% of voters had approved independence.
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  250. on the other day I watched a video of an English lady talking about typical German gestures: one was rolling the eyes. I wonder if this really typical German and if Brits don't do it?!?
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  251.  @Alexandros.Mograine  tell this Putin! ;-) His narratives of ancestrol lands go back further.
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  252.  @pancake3770  I were new, super energy efficient houses in Germany, somethimes called "passive houses" an automated ventilation system with heat exchange technology is installed. In these houses you should avoid to open the window, because it is contraproductive for the ventilation system.
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  253. Basic foods were always available in East Germany - just as the video mentioned, imported goods were in short supply and not available every time, like bananas or navel oranges. Also there was not the overproduction and variety we know today. There was one type of butter and two types of margarine and not a dozen. Also in the end of the day there were not 10 types of bread in the shelves as the customer expects it nowadays.
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  254.  @Julio-io9hm  I find your argument not tvery convincing. Your criteria would apply to other groups as well. Correlation is not causation.
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  255.  @skipstopstart  Julio sounds like a guy who has too much conspiracy theories in his head.
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  256.  @purplemashine9122 , as someone from northern Germany, I didn't get what you wrote - though Lagolop is understandable even the spelling is unusual for me.
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  257. I can't hear any German accent in Benicon's videos. It sounds fairly British to me, though I could not pinpoint a certain region in England.
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  258.  @ОлекЛис  aggrressor?! honestly, you are comparing a politician reacting verbally to an issue of not respecting a country's sovereignty with an adminstration that sends military staff, wappons, money and occupying teritory and putting up border fences etc. within another country?!? Are you kidding?! I would rather worry about the over 100,000 Russian who fled the RuzZian paradise to Georgia and didn't wanted become cannon foddered, censored or jailed.
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  259.  @cd8815  in his latest video he rants about North American subburbs guys having no clue how it is to grow up and live in Russia. This provokes the question in me: Does he "has a clue" what it was or is like to grow up in Grosny, Gori or Mariupol?
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  260. walking around in summer is much more pleasant there. Plus especially in early summer Schleswig is a very charming small town when the rose bushes bloom in front of the houses. The quarter called "Holm" - a former fishermen's village is especially picturesque.
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  261.  @cameronduff884  lantern walks do exist both in Catholic and Protestant areas in Germany. Therefore I doubt it is related to Martin Luther.
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  262.  @cameronduff884  beer was made by people in the middle East already 10,000 years ago. the blitzkrieg strategy was developed in the end of ww1, when young Adolf was just a simple soldier.
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  263. This seems the impression got in a Frankfurt bubble. But Frankfurt city centre is rather the exception - not the rule in Germany all over. Maybe you can get by in many situations with English, but without German you miss out many things and won't get very far in professional or business context. The role of Turkish or Arabic is clearly overestimated. Only that some teens adopt a few words from these languages is just an interesting fashion, but not a long lasting effect.
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  264. yes, indeed.
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  265. 🤣😂🤣
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  266. Volcano, your racial concepts are just your racial concept - nothing more.
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  267. ​ @КотикОбормотик-х2н  you had been living since the ancient Greek?? How old are you ? 2000 years? You should write this to the Guinness book. Does your administration recreate dead bodies, destroyed families and personal belonging with no problem?! Wow, this must be truly a fairytale!!1!!1
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  268. Roman should take a break, if he can't deal with the situation and the responsibility which comes with a million subscribers. I don't know, what this rant is about and discrediting people who live in North American subburbs. If he has the impression his viewers know little about Russia, why doesn't he explains his background and the situation in Russia in a calm an detailed manner? Just rant and rave "you have no clue" is just not very educational. Besides, did he ever ask himself, if he "has a clue" what it was or is like to grow up in Grosny, Gori or Mariupol? Of course, the war in Ukraine is in peoples mind especially in neighboring Europe. If he posts a video publicly with hundred of thousand of views, he can expept a public discussion about the topic and have do deal with it and not portait opions as dump. I can symphazise with some of the critical opinions. If he talks about the image of Russian abroad ... what is so difficult to state, that he as a Russian wants peace and want's to live peacefully and respectfully with neighboring nations? I doubt that would be a "criminal act". BTW, I knew where Ukraine is. And I've been to Tbilissi before. Maybe it would be good not just to visit the shiny boulevards of Aghmashenebeli or Chavchavadze Ave, but to talk to ordinary Georgians in the suburbs. As far as I understand, 1 out of 4 people in Georgia is a refugee due to conflicts fuel and escalated by Russia. It is not only that Russian military invated parts of Georgia - it had a broader impact on Georgian society. And I can image that those pictures, memories and traumata surface when Georgian ppl watch the news of Ukraine.
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  269. Since the city was called Kaliningrad in 1946 it has never been a part of Poland and there is hardly anything Polish about it. Do you know any historic seal of the city or official document by the city where the name Krolewiec was used? It might be the Polish name but rather an exonym. And Königsberg does not mean king's land but king's mount - referring to the fortress. The Teutonic knights were invited because the Polish king was laking ressources to conquer and control these lands of the Baltic Prussians The area was depend from the Polish king for a while, but autonomous. Canada was also dependent from the Queen of England - but that doesn't make it a part of England. Königsberg was predominantly German speaking starting from the 13th centuries because German and speaking people moved there and the city was thriving because of this merchants and craftsmen. Nobody killed Poles there because hardly any lived there. There was no Germany in the 17th century- in order to attack Poland. East Prussia has nothing to do with the later partitions of Poland done by Russia, Austria and the state of Prussia. This Prussian state including Königsberg became part of an united Germany in 1871 - there was no need to occupy Köningsberg. I wonder where did you get this alternative history from? It would be even more interesting to find out, if this is a common tale in Poland?
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  270.  @herpderp1662  are projecting your personal problems on Germans and German history? If German feel guilty then obviously to other white people and nations.
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  271.  @jdrancho1864  still, it is a matter of practice. If there is always an interpreter around and Putins German is better anyway, she had other things which kept her busy in the end of the day. I had Russian in school , though I might not have been as ambitious as Merkel - but I cannot follow Russian news. I can pick up single words, but I cannot have a discussion about political issues in Russian. Are you proficient in Russian?
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  272.  @jdrancho1864  well, my point is: I had 8 years of Russian at school and maybe can have a conversation about what is left in the fridge for dinner tonight. But I can't follow political discussions. So why would someone expect that from a chancellor? For a German Russian is not really related - there are very few cognate words. Plus declinations and conjugations make it hard to just simply add words to a sentence as you can do in English. Those things also make it harder to pick up words in a fast spoken text. English is far more easy for a German in this regards. The only advantage of Russian is: it is spoken as written and vis versa.
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  273. And what is you problems? Do You think, it is not enough to survive in the UK?
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  274.    I find it weird when US Americans get confused about the terms "Hispanics" and "Spaniards".
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  275. I think, this also has to do to which looks you are used to. If you suddenly travel to an other place the looks there might feel different, exotic and even individualistic... for as long as you get uses to them again.
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  276.  @bambino_88  at least the people interviewed in the video don't give this impression.
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  277.  @covfefe1787  Germany is Central Europe - just for further reference: that is how they see themselves.
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  278.  Auschwitzen Spa and Wellness Center  most stupid comment and alias name!
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  279.  @barfuss2007 , die Brühlsche Terrasse in Dresden sah schon bei August dem Starken und unterm Kaiser schön aus - und die Bergarbeiterhäuschen in der Haldenstraße in Gelsenkirchen waren schon immer grau. Doch die Düsseldorfer Kö ist 50mal schicker als die Königsbrücker Straße in Dresden. Diese Vergleiche sind soooo sinnlos.
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  280.  @barfuss2007  aha, und ein echter Westdeutscher ist demnach nur jemand, der "ich sorge nur für mich und meinen eigenen finanziellen Wohlstand" verinnerlicht hat? Die Frage ob jetzt der richtige Zeitpunkt für eine "Wiedervereinigung" gewesen wäre, ist doch alles vergossene Milch.
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  281. Welchen Zusammenhang es zu den Schweizern gibt, versteh ich nicht. Und das Unabhängigkeitsstreben der Katalanen nur auf die Ökonomie zu beschränken, greift vielleicht etwas kurz. Nun ja, die Schwaben leben nun mal in der BRD und das ist nun mal so in einem gemeinsamen Land. Man kann nicht nur junge, gut ausgebildete Ost- oder Norddeutsche ins Schwabenländle locken, sondern muss für die zurückgeblieben Rentner auch Verantwortung übernehmen.
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  282. As a German I would round up to the full Euro - but 10 % max when I'm served by a waiter at my table. Just having a beer across the bar counter I would leave the change but rather 5% or less.
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  283. I don't get what is laughable about it...
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  284. "never Germans there, only the Slovenian-Lithuanian" great alternative story!!1!1!!🤣😂🤣
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  285. These are considered to be ancestral people... But 1000 or 1500 years ago. This is very distant and there only a very few enthusiast who try to live and dress like those people in their spare time.
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  286. So "iPhone" stands basically for all smartphones in American English?
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  287.  @michellesheaff3779  though the Kuril islands might be small, they have an are all together of the size of Connecticut. 1946 roughly 20,000 Japanese inhabitants of the southern islands had to leave their homes for good and were not allowed to return since then.
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  288.  @usathorner609  I bet, you don't have the courage to say that loud and publicly on the Esplanadi in Helsinki. Could end up painful...
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  289. Unfortunatly, there is no glory but shame left for Russia.
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  290.  @anvold5152 , killing others is godless and against the 10 commandments even for Orthodoxs. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
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  291. Maik ist doch eine Ossi-Name?
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  292.  @HelmutQ  There is pretty no-one alive who speaks Hanover Low German (or Platt) today. And people who use the former sharp St or Sp instead of the now usual Scht and Schp are very hard to find and probably over 70 or 80 in age.
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  293. Did you mean "Anschluss" (Annexation of Austria)? "Anschuß" sounds like it would derive from Schießen (shooting) and suggests like someone or something was hit by a bullet.
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  294. the tower of Ulm cathedral (likewise in Cologne) was only completed in modern times under Kaiser Wilhelm - though historically Strassbourg Cathedral might have had te tallest spire in medieval times.
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  295. Ruzzia makes it very hard currently to love it.
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  296. it truely is.
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  297.  @xandara75  true, this can also be seen at a backery when buying a cake. Germany has delious cakes, but if you buy them in a bakery they are going to wrapped with less care. The result looks rather smashed when you bring it home. French backeries would spend much more attention to packaging, which makes the gateaus look flawless after transport.
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  298.  @PaulMcElligott  also the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire is related to deportations, death marshes and concentration camps.
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  299. what will happen to your passport after Brexit, since it says ‘European Union’ on the cover?
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  300. really?
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  301.  @mautoban66  Das sind doch keine Geheimnisse oder Spezialkenntnisse hier?!
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  302.  @mautoban66  naja, aber von Hanse und Preußen hast du sicherlich schon mal gehört oder?!
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  303. when did the Nato attack Russia? is there an access to this parallel universe somewhere?
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  304. too many computer games?!
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  305. @pheumann86 this is a very personal experience. From my POV view travelling nearly weekly from so-called West to East and back it seem exaggerated. the problem starts when single events as in Dresden are categories and put into boxes labeled "East Germany".
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  306. Incredibly beautiful captures and video!
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  307. Oh, die Gnade der frühen Geburt!!11! Ich mag mir gar nicht vorstellen, was man dafür persönlich geleistet hat!!1!
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  308. well, rather 2,500 years.
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  309. What would be a Westerner in this case? Mexico seems fairly Western Hemisphere for an European.
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  310. This summer I'm going on the populare bike route along the Elbe river. For the North Sea islands I recomment Helgoland, not as a day trip but stay there overnight and enjoy the island when all the crowd left with the last boat. The island is not large but there are some things to see and especially also the neighboring island Düne with its beach and seals laying around.
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  311. why would a christian order slaughter people when the order was called with the purpose to christianized those people? where do you get this stuff from. Was it in in an documentation on Russia Today?
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  312. According to the census 2022 exact 648 people which was 0.1 % of the population of the oblast.
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  313. about 50% of north Germans have blond hair, those there is rather darker blond than light blond. Eye colors among Germans is fairly split evenly in thirds: on third blue, one third brown and last third green/gray/or other mixtures.
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  314. ​ @AlexandraAlexal  if you read history you would come across Russian imperialism and inner colonialism.
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  315. ​ @generalkawasaki9485 and? Some place on the Rhine or Danube have still a Roman word root in their name from 2000 years ago ... are these all Italian therefore?!?
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  316. The pity is that many Russians care more for coke prices than to show some emphaty for people in Ukraine.
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  317. How much tax money is transferred from the US to Poland??
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  318.  @MS-io6kl  I#m not so sure when you actually would use "between a rock and a hard place"?! So it seems more like "zwischen den Stühlen sitzen" (lit. sit beetween the chairs) or "zwischen Baum und Bork" (lit. being between trunk and bark) when you can't deside for either side or don't want to take sides. Devil and Beelzebub I only know from the idiom „den Teufel durch Beelzebub austreiben" if you try to overcome one evil by creation a worse situation. For plague and cholera it is the term "die Wahl zwischen Pest und Cholera haben" to choose between plague and cholera - meaning you you have to choose one evil or either decision will be bad and I think the English equivalent is: to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea.
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  319. I find those generalization and prejudgment over the population of entire regions highly racist. Yes, there was an xenophobic hunting scene in Magdeburg on a spring day 28 years ago - in a time of social unreast and lacking police structures. This was an extreme incident condemned by the public.
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  320. Is there a bigger economy on the continent?
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  321. Every language is a dialect, but just with state and an army. The same would apply for German - Dutch - Luxembourgian ...
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  322. the Old Prussians were assimilated in the German speaking poulation. Their descendant were expelled from the territory and life now probably in Berlin or Hamburg. The link to atvia and Lithuania is rather constructed and something to entertain linguists.
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  323.  @Korn..  yesss sure!!11!!!1 ...trees in park grow within a few month, houses are built in a few weeks ... what is next?!? Putler brought unicorns which fart rainbows??
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  324.  @daniil4978  who?
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  325.  @overtimedemo4399  who?
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  326.  @FlyLoriens  and who are those "dogpigs"? Bandera obviously has been dead for several decades.
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  327.  @notelduderino6243  they probably laughted out loud after telling you this story. I wonder where they went with the train? Food related items in Germany are usually very well priced compared to neighboring countries. You could argue about the quality: that cheese is better in France or fruits are better in Italy, but not the prices. Only in neighboring Poland and Czechia food items could be cheaper. Maybe this were students from Berlin who could travel for free on the train to Poland and have nothing to do and don't mind the extra hours travelling.
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  328.  @bidjo666  thank you for your thoughtful, explanatory as well as rhetorically precious comment!
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  329. It is really disgusting when people making fun of women fleeing the war. I guess, you have to be Ruzzian for that, those Ruzzians who already show so little emphaty for the people in Ukraine effected by the war.
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  330. Has he?
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  331. Why do not start fighting nazis within Russia first before attaking other countries?! How do you fight nazis by bombing kindergartens and appartments and causing millions to flee? How does a granate knows in which appartment a nazi lives. This "nazi" stuff is the lamest excuse for this geopolitical aggression. BTW, the NATO is an military defense organisation and has nothing to do with economy. Sanctions are not a military tool. The EU on the other hand is also an economic community and as such they decided on sanction, because the are outraged about the devastation and killing in Ukraine.
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  332. and its an old piece of the Vandals settling grounds and its even an older piece of the Neanderthal's home, dude!
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  333. True. It is depressing to think about how many more of his kind wondering around in RuZzia.
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  334. @Stockbrot "We" don't say that. Just a single author with weird theories.
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  335. what is a "Clinton Foundationalist"?
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  336. well done video and especially interesting for the facts about water needs in waver production, since Magdeburg region is one of those with the smallest rainfalls within Germany. In the last 3 or 4 years of draught ground water levels dropped dramatically. The Elbe river had such unknown low levels of water that it was not navigable by ships for several months each year. Three notes to video itself: The East German Mark were converted 2:1 to the West German Mark in 1990, with exception only small amount per person to soften hardships for poor people. Otto von Guericke should be pronounceable for two reasons: "otto" ist the city's marketing character and Mayor Otto von Guericke's unique roll as scientiest discovering and describing the effect of air pressure and vacuum. The Hundertwasser building is called Green Citadel (not Green Cathedral) refering to the cities history of the stronges fortified city of Prussia. One critical issus was not mention in the video: the position of the facility. Magdeburg is flanked in the West and Southwest by the best arable soil to be found in Germany, often twice or even three times as productive as the fields in the North or East of the city. There of all places between 300 and 500 hectars of untouched fields are reserve for the Intel facility. This would mean an area which is 15 to 25 time larger (!) than the Dresden facilities mentioned in the video. Having this precious soil in mind it was a PR disaster to me presenting the first architectural renderings with gigantic ground-level parking lots - taking up nearly 50% of the project area and illustrating the not sustainable, wasteful approach of soil sealing. This might be the norm in car dependent and extensive North America, but raises eyebrows in dense and environmentally conscious Europe.
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  337. Part of the story of von Steuben is also that his further career in the Prussian military was critical due to allegation of homosexual actions. Starting in America could have been a welcome opportunity.
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  338.  @tzatzikiv812  das könnte ich aber als deutscher Muttersprachler auch kaum verstehen. Da ist Holländisch einfacher.
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  339.  @ingridreim3205  richtiges Friesisch wäre auch wie eine Fremdsprache ... doch jemanden zu treffen, der das beherrscht und im Alltag verwendet, ist dann schon ein richtiger Glücksgriff. Das ältere Leute auf dem Dorf mal Plattdeutsch sprechen ist zwar auch selten , doch lange nicht so selten wie Friesisch. Vor 30 Jahren war ich das erste Mal in Bayern bei der Familie eines Bekannten aufm Dorf bei Erding - das war auch interessant. Da gabs es zwei Gruppen am Abendbrotstisch: welche die sich angeregt unterhielten und welche die mit offenen Mund lauschten und versuchten wenigsten ein paar Worte aufzuschnappen, um das Thema zu verstehen. Es hätte auch ein Bauernhof in der Toskana sein können...
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  340.  @Angeliter  Well, it is likely that Tomas meant this, though it would be German speaking - not Germanic.
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  341.  @dearbhal  wahrscheinlich ist das gemeint?!
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  342. It is old Neanderthals land!!1!!1!!
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  343. What is Polish about it?
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  344. In Czechia many of the former German villages where not entirely resettled and left abandoned to decay and often completely knocked down and taken from the map. The property of the former German inhabitants became nationalized. So the new inhabitants didn't own the houses they lived in - unlike other areas of Czechia. And also the fear that the former owners might come back one day led to disinterest to invest in it.
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  345. Berlin was the capital, though Potsdam was the summer residence of the Prussian kings.
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  346. Noone can really predict the next 70 years.
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  347. did you watch the video?
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  348. I wonder what Polish nobles built in Königsberg? Do you have only one example?
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  349. Schtreimel sounds much like the North German "Stremel" which is a narrow band of fabric or a narrow piece of food. I wounder if those words are related? May the Schtreimel is made of several narraw bands of fur?
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  350.  @OutragedPufferfish  good, and I already thought you dream of Putin at night ...?!
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  351. Heil Putler!!!
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  352. though this was 1,500 years ago which would mean 60 generations
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  353.  @andrzejrozmus3919  a discussion is not only about agreeing on everything and judging who is right or wrong. A discussion is also an good opportunity to exchange information and get to know other perspectives on a topic and understand the other approach.
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  354. why do the these craftmen show up at Germnan home owners at some vage time between 10 am and 2 pm?!?
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  355.  @sanfersGameChannel  yes, unfortunatly.
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  356.  @vera.1897  a pearl worth bombing to dust, I guess.
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  357.  @АленаЧеховских-ж8м  even if borders are not precise this is not an excuse to invade other countries, bomb cities and people. This is the 21st century btw and there are other ways to solve territorial issuses. This applies to Donbas and Crimea - both areas vorted in referendums in 1991 to be independent from the Soviet Union and part of an independent Ukraine. If you want to talke about referendum you need to talk about this as well.
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  358.  @VitaliiKholmukhamedov  objectively viewed, one has to note that the Ukraine did not invade Russia, did not bomb Russian cities, did not commit war crimes on Russian territory, did not cause power shortages or drinking water problems for Russian citizens - just objectively speaking. Sure everything can be viewed from various perspectives - but when it comes to swapping victim and perpetrator a line will be crossed.
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  359.  @iraqian-odessit  good for you - don't give any piece of Odesa to Putler!
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  360. @Ceroid most of US Americans speak English - but they are not England, even though some cities founded by English. Many areas and nations were under the Russian Crown like the Finns or Estonians - but that doesn't make them to Russians today. The Russian Crown, the Russian Empire and Russian Czar don't exist anymore - even though Putler thinks he could be a new Czar. Ukrainians are not Russian... they self determined that they want to be an independent nation in 1991 and even Crimea or Donbas chose to be a part of an independent Ukraine back then.
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  361.  @valary2676  ... and Odesa was the capital of which territory? But anyhow it WAS... the same way the Zsar WAS ... and the Russian Empire WAS: But the modern Russian Federation has clearly imperialic characteristics. For me it already feels weird that they often officially display the imperial eagle and not design a modern ( or democratic or federal) eagle.
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  362. ​ @lpxGaidai  wow, the Russian adminstration repairs streets!!11! Maybe even roads they bombed into rubble before.... Who would of thought of this?! I'm sorry for your personal destiny ... but honestly who repaired the streets in the 30 years before - maybe the Ukrainian adminstration?!
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  363. ​ Ольга  God forbids hopefully Odesa doesn't become Russian rubble like Mariupol or Bakhmut.
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  364.  @selenga1  When a woman is killed in the streets of Odesa the perpetrator should be found and punished. It doesn't help to bomb other cities like Mariupol and kill thousands there. It also doesn't help to send money, wappons and mercenaries from Russia to Donbas in order to create unrest for over 8 years. The aim of a discussion is not in agreeing in every detail. The goal could also be in exchanging information and facts on the topic or get to know and understand other perspectives towards the topic.
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  365. ​ @СветланаСорокина-з4ъ  which hill you are talking about? Why should I be afraid? I don't live in Ruzzia? Who is Dolik? You see your comments raised alot of questions....
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  366. Are you an EU citizen? - it should be easy.
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  367. the nonsensens is yours!
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  368. It feels like adults playing shooting games instead of doing something useful ... they could just join the Russian Red Cross or alike and do something meaningful for their community.
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  369. ​ @albrechtvonretardenberg188  longer than what?
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  370.  @MrJarower  this is pretty peculiar, since more than half of the imported gas to Poland came from Russia, according to the data from 2020. This 30 year long practise of nurturing the "terrorist country" just stop last mounth, when Russia abrogated the contracts. Sorry, these "we knew it all for years" stories are not so convincing.
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  371.  @deepb249  this letter juggling.
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  372.  @billhansen6683  I guess, you are a US citizen - and I'm not sure what applies to you. For Germans it's no deal to go to Poland or Lithuania, often even without border control. From there you can get an one-day-visa at the border to Kalingrad oblast to make a short trip in it. Otherwise it is rather a hassle to get into Russian territory. You would need to apply for a visa several weeks or months in advance - plus you need an "invitation". This invitation could be done by a private person, an travel agency or a hotel in Russia. But if you ask me, I would rather visit Poland and the parts of former Prussia there, since they take better care of historic structures and remains in Poland, for example keeping the old churches in use. One could easily disappointed for that in the Kaliningrad oblast since most German remains were neglected and fall into ruins. Though I've heard that a few wealthy suburbs of Königsberg with their houses survived.
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  373.  @kacpersokoowski5208  the oldest surviving record calls it Gyddanyzc.
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  374.  @herrwagnerianer1739  well, then you should question what Germans in Germany learn in school and what is general consensus. Well, someone could discuss that the North German Confederation of 1867 was the first German nation state, and why the German Confederation of 1815 was not. The history of an united Germany is fairly similar to the united Italy and started fairly late - and makes it therefore different to the history of a long centralised France or even England. Out of curiosity: where did you get your historical insights from?
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  375.  @harryeisermann2784  "Prussia" WAS a geographic region and a state in Germany. Prussia as region is now oblast Kaliningrad in Russia and Masuria in Poland. Prussia as a state does not exist anymore and was dismantled in 1947. I don't know what you want to tell me?
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  376.  @Antares-mo6xh  just to be clear the video is about the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad and the city with the same name - not about other, maybe adjacent regions. Masuria or Warmia are not part of the Kaliningrad oblast and vise versa. Actually, my questions were more of a rhetorical nature to illustrate how insubstancial your comment was. Yes, I know that Königsberg was heavily destroyed and not rebuild to original layout. Nevertheless Königsberg cathedral was reconstructed (with German aid) with is an example of brick Gothic style - and not baroque. Yes, Warmia and Masuria were part of the same administrative German district - but were different to the Königsberg region. Warmia had historicly closer ties to Poland and stayed catholic after the reformation - therefore you will find a baroque style catholic sanctuary there. Masuria was protestant and had a significant Polish speaking population even before the war - though it was not the majority, only in some communities. A lot of there descendents moved there from adjecent Polish regions due to their protestant faith.
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  377. Na, hier verwechselt wohl jemand Oberdeutsch mit Hochdeutsch.
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  378.  @arino253 , nein das sehe ich nicht so. Hochdeutsch und Standarddeutsch werden i.d.R synonym verwendet. Bairisch ist ein oberdeutscher Dialekt. Man kann aber Oderdeutsch und Mitteldeutsch zu "Hochdeutsch" gruppieren, da hätte der Begriff eine weitere Berechtigung. Luther hat in seiner Bibelübersetzung quasi eine Hybridsprache verwendet, die für möglichst viele Mitteldeutsche und Oberdeutsche verständlich sein sollte. Er hat aber garantiert nicht bairische Umgangssprache aufgeschrieben. Der Rest des Filmchen ist doch auch gespickt mit gefährlichen Halbwissen. Niederländisch ist nie die Schriftsprache der Niederdeutschen gewesen, außer bei ein paar grenznahen Landstrichen am Niederrhein.
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  379. But they forgot to re-install the Piast dynasty after 1945 then.
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  380.  @wBacz  Germany has a fairly short history as an united nation or country. German speaking lands were split up in dozens if not hundreds of small territories with their own kings, dukes or lord bishops for centuries. Therefore, from a German perspective a common language and culture is what unites them and with which they identify - not with some random king. Please keep in mind in the 900's there was no urban "city", but rather a fortified settlement. The German settlers who came after the devastation of the Mongols 1241 made it consequently grow and prosper to a city of several hundred which it also today.
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  381. Gustav, the pronuciation of Herman Schützercrantz sounded butchered ... or was this really the way Swedes would say this name?
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  382.  @atkocuboatkocubo8729  who is "they"?
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  383.  @ALEXRUSSIANOCCUPANT  generalisation like "what the whole West does" just shows that someone hasn't study the situation in detail and is not willing to differenciate. Congrat for the own goal in the argumentation!
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  384. did you know that the Swedish chef is a Danish cook in the German version?
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  385. Königsber is indeed a German name. But what is German about today's Kaliningrad?
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  386. What is Polish about Kaliningrad?
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  387.  @user-iu1sh6ih1q  ... or Wladimir Göbbelsowitsch Solowjow if you like...
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  388.  @BanjoSick  I don't get the connection between one of my comments and a metal song?!
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  389. what was Polish about it?
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  390. to me the architectural style looks blocky and boring.
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  391. 13 billion euro each years is awfully disgusting !!!1!!!1!
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  392.  @patriciaadansi  FYI, Africa is a continent and a huge one in particular with 54 countries and 1.4 billion people. ... and what is rising - terrain versus sea level?
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  393. Recently, I came across a recording someone made secretly when Hitler spoke in private with the Finnish president. I found it intresting, because he sounded rather normal with a slight Austrian accent - and not like the screeming lunatic from his public speaches.
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  394. Actually, you should be able to have various options and be able to argue for the best way - and not be jailed for an opposing opinion like in Russia or not be dissed and excluded like in the US.
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  395. ... and? In most countries it is better than being homeless on drugs in the US. That is an internal US American problem - not the fault of the rest of the world.
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  396. How do you know? Did you travel all around Europe... or did Solowjow tell this on tv?
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  397.  @charlesowen719  strange comment! The author of the video is from Netherlands and it seems plausible since he has a Dutch accent. If you disagree with some information, why don't you just it in detail instead of discrediting the whole video. Besides there is nothing wrong to have a Dutch or German perspective on the topic. You could add your perspective here, too.
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  398.  @burgundian777  Franco-PRUSSIAN war ... do you notice something?!?
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  399.  @burgundian777  Did you ever consider that a move of a butterfly in Costa Rica could result in how the EU acts today?!?
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  400. Did you see the topic of the video? Then you know what it is about... simple.
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  401. Is this a reverse universe - everything RuZzia does is now made by the US... ?
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  402.  @X1oshi  far off from being greatest. Very unfortunate but true.
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  403. Are there cultural differences after all? 😉
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  404. ​ @КонстантинВинников-у3ы inadequate? Well, I feel very complete! What about you: are you able to write a complete sentence or question to which referendum you even reply at all?
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  405. ​ @elenaivanova5475 what kind of bot are you? Why do call yourself "we"? Are you several? And if, how many? Can you name any lies? Or is it just some general rant of yours? Have you ever been to Donbas? Questions over questions ....
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  406. ​ Młody PiSowiec  calling the EU "4th Reich" seems "special" considering the 13 billion euros Poland recieves yearly from it.
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  407.  Młody PiSowiec  of course, your worldview must be right: it is like the witch feeding Hänsel only in order to eat the fat boy afterwards!!11!!11! I wonder if you tase good French style with a red wine sauce ... or German: breaded and fried with aspargus on the side?!?22??
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  408.  @Murgraht  i would not trust people with a toothbrush moustache in their profile picture.
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  409.  @andreasrehn7454 , would that be the hand you would use on the loo?
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  410.  @geoffpriestley7001  interesting... so what you do with your hands at the dinner table?
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  411.  @sadee1287  It never came to my mind to tell other cultures what to do. Those social standards are a well balanced system in their culture and table manners are a way to show respect to the others on the dinner table or to the host. Those standards might be different in your environment. In the States there were various immigrants from all parts of the world, so you had to agree on different standards. One just has to know or be aware of these differences, because they lead to misunderstandings. For a German or other European resting the hand in the lab while dinning would leave a dubious impression.
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  412.  @martini604  what does that mean? Berlin ... Stettin ...Köslin ...Tallinn Dublin Wien Turin Medellin Harbin?
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  413. and if I don't like a president I shouldn't start a political opposition, I should bomb entire towns into rubble. Yeah, right!!1!!1 Brilliant logic, dude!!!11
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  414. and what do you want to do with it?
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  415.  @druncle1977  I see - so, of true national identity value for you then!!11!!
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  416.  @druncle1977  who is Germany? try asking the local people, want they want... BTW, have you ever been there?
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  417. It is a shame that the Orthodox patriarch is not working towards peace and instead talking about "holy war".
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  418. When I read these types of comments I also cringe. The names were Germanized from Slavic terms and also Polonized from their old originals. At best a modern Polish name was already created parallel to the German one. Polish of today is not ancient Western Slavic from 1000 years ago.
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  419.  @dpw6546  thanks for your explaination - though "Danzig" and "Stettin" forms were predominant exonyms in English before 1945.
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  420. I respect your love for ancient legends but German speaking people live in these towns mentioned, Danzig, Stettin or Breslau, for 7 centuries and made these places grow and prosper to the cities of several hundred thousands.
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  421. ​ @joachimaszkenazi Danzig flourished as a Hanseatic city doing trade with the majority of its inhabitants speaking German. The thing with Hanseatic towns and merchants wad that they wanted to be independent and have as less interference by any ruler, whoever this king or duke was.
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  422. ​​ @joachimaszkenazi the name Berlin come not from a place Polabian Slavs settled, but it is a toponym (as with many of these names): so it is term for the landscape in the surrounding of these people. Berlin derives from "swamp" - and it was most likely the name for a particular swamp, since early sources call it "The Berlin". And in this swamp settlers from the Lower Rhine and Westfalia settled in the 13th century. One settlement they called Cölln and the other they named after the swamp Berlin. Many people from the Lower Rhine but also from Holland moved in the region because they were experienced with taming rivers and drying out swamps.
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  423. this question reminds me of American guides like Rick Steeves who advice Americans to practice walking by feed prior to trip to Europe....
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  424. I don't have this impression.
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  425. Traditionally, the southern part of Eastern Germany and the truely western part of West Germany were heavily industrialized. In the 40 years of division the southern part of West Germany experienced a boom, while East Germany had to dismantle industrial infrastructure and send it to Russia as a war reparation. After the unification a privatization process of the formerly state owned factories was installed in East Germany. This process unfortunatly was more focused on the revenues than maintaining factories or jobs. It got out of hand and let to a nearly complete de-industrialization of East Germany in the 1990's with mass unemployment and so on. When the politics realized the consequences it was already too late and it took a lot of effort and tax subsidies to stop this process and slowly establish new industries in the East.
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  426.  @ilsebrauckhoff7689  it depens on your preference - Pumpernickel is very special in flavour and dense. Personally, I don't like it. But I like a a sourdough bread with a high portion of rye flour.
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  427. I didn't know Wolters still existed ... though I wouldn't buy it.
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  428. 😂😂you have no idea what you are talking about.
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  429.  @m.e.7100  in the 1980's this building method was subsidized by the federal state adminstration of Bavaria - though I'm not sure if it was required.
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  430.  @fliplefrog8843  me too.
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  431. Can you name the study or a source, because a study with such a result doesn't show up among the studies shown in the internet or mentioned on wikipedia.
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  432. What is Amjoba?
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  433.  @ДаданДаданский  the prices shown in the video are comparable to German prices, maybe even a bit more expensive. But saleries and pensions are at least twice of those in Russia.
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  434.  @WiewiurTV  1. you are the one who started to compare the GDR to Ukraine: it would be the same as comparing Czechia to Moldovia. 2. Bismarck is almost 125 years dead. 3. It might be that Eastern Europeans admired France ... but in reality the French just don't care a lot about Eastern Europe and the people are foreign to them. 4. yes, Germany is stiff and less flexible, because people are in favour of security and stability - I guess, due to historical experiences.
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  435.  @davidpichkar8239  NATO????
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  436.  @franzi3215  a "9" and "g" are generally not written the same by Germans. The "tail" of the g is not open, but rather cross the downward line.
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  437. @Wikdroid, most likely the same people who get angry about Danzig are those who use Lwow instead of Ukrainian Lwiw and Wilno instead of Lithuanian Vilnius. Is this long winding historical text really a reason not to use the name Danzig? Plus I would still reflect on the nationalistic tinted narratives and if legends like the massacre story of the Theutonic knight just has relevance in a later political context interpreted.
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  438. Actually none - pretty flat.
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  439. A missed chance to show the beauty of the German German language by showing native speakers. Instead the video was filled with ugly, harsh, screaming parodies of German. So if you just present prejudices than you will end up finding affirmations of it.
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  440. Can DNA test actually distinguish between Dutch and German?
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  441.  @emo122009  "Germanic" is an term for language and culture ... so theorethically could be part of the same language family but still have a variation in their DNA marker mix. Extreme example are people speaking a Turk language: which could East Asian from the far east of Siberia to people on the Bosporus whos DNA are very similar to the Greeks. Anyhow, Dutch and German people are living so close together with fluent boundaries and actually a dispinct separation not starting before the 1700's - that makes it very hard for these tests to differenciate. So, my question was more of a rhetoric nature.
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  442.  @juicyfruit4378  7 incidences over years doesn't sound a lot, considering you have conversation on daily basis. If I have been living in an English speaking country for years I would have met 7 rude persons, too.
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  443. @Andrej, those comments are often sarcasm - taking the piss of Ruzzian imperialistic propaganda , that this and that allegedly has been Russsian forever.
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  444. sounds logical ... and a bit like Berlin and the surrounding rural Brandenburg.
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  445. I liked how the subtiles made out of English breakfast tea - English pregnacy!🤣
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  446. I can't look in the mind of Russian people, but just to comment the "Z" with "I don't know" feels like too little. The "Z" stands for me as a support for the Russian war in Ukraine. An irresolute reaction to it can be interpreted as indifferent and even not refusing. Is it really so hard for Russians nowadays to articulate the wish, that they want to live in peace with their neighbors?
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  447.  @solaccursio  Do you know, what this about? I've seen it on other youtube channels as well: Comments with the same name or profile picture pop up and want you to call. Usually, those accounts have hardly any subcriber and were recently created. What happens when call ... I mean, then eventually you will find out: it is not Feli.
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  448. warned what for? If no Russian gas should be used, then it should be banned all together. But dividing Russian gas in "bad gas" because it is pumped through the Baltic Sea and "good gas" because it will bring revenue through transport fees in Ukraine and Poland is just so silly as it is predictable.
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  449.  @VforArt  in the numbers I found from Eurostat. Germany only uses Russian Gas for 35% of its supply (same as Italy). In Poland it is 60%, in Czechia it is 88%. In the same range is Ukraine. And in Finnland an the Baltics it is 100%. So in regards of depency on Russian gas is not Germany that is ranking high.
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  450. Well, "Fernseher", "Wörterbuch", "Schauspieler" or "Adel" are words commonly used in German.
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  451. They should rather care about Russia than about regions abroad.
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  452. so tiresome unfunny
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  453.  @katd7716 , you are right. Though it is different story. You are EU citizen. You hop on a train in Berlin or get into your car and in an hour or two you are in Poland, if you feel homesick or want to see family or friens. Still mentality, whether, food, customs, ... it's pretty much the same. Plus you probably look similar and as white as 90% of Berliners. Coming from Pakistan is different and you would face more obstacles.
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  454.  @FlatMax2  I would not correct a colleague all the time. But I would do so, when I notice he or she does repeatedly the same mistake. I work in a planning firm and unfortunatly this job is rather quiet and therefore not a good practice for foreign colleague to use their German.
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  455. occupied by the people who live there?!
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  456. I made some observation: when American news talk about American politics they usually present an image of the Capitol (as Ashton did in her intro). When German news talk about American politics they usually show a picture of the White House. I wonder if there is a deeper meaning behind it, for example different ideas where the real power is located.
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  457. klasse Video! Doch ich halte Wolkenkratzer für verzichtbar, weil die Hauptmotivation sie zu bauen, Prestige und Eitelkeit ist. In Bezug auf Kosten und Ressourcen ist es nie die optimale Lösung.
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  458.  @НатальяПодрезенко-ъ5з  good for them! They know what they had with the old one and they didn't like it. With a new there is at least a chance of change for the better. With old there is little hope since Putler wants to recreate the old imperialistic times.
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  459. German speakers move to Silesia in the 1200's and were often invited by the local rulers to boost economy, trade, agriculture, mining etc. plus were responsible for much of the urban development in the area. To deny this doesn't really the Poles who live there today, because they want to identify with there towns. Places of identification are often the older city quarters which are connected to history and the history of their former German inhabitants.
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  460.  @katethegoat7507  have you ever been to an open-air museum / folk museum?
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  461. apparently they recently changed the law ... which makes it hard to avoid the "drafting letter". The mobilization can now be done in digital ways ... and therefore also apply to people leaving the country , for example if checked at a border control.
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  462. A strange way to show the love and don't accept the (election) decision of the lover. I guess, you have to be Russian to understand this incapacitation.
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  463. How they interpret your abilities is a different story, but evaluating your language tasks or test just can be be done by right or wrong. It is in the name Rechtschreibung or orthography.
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  464. Why do they wear rotten western brands ... and not patriotic Ruzzian togs?!?
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  465. I think, it is deeply human that you try to find reason in something which is so incomprehensible and inexplicable like the holocaust.
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  466. Viva bombs!!!!!
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  467. Because he talked about conflicts in Europe ... and Syria, Afghanistan or Iran are NOT in Europe!
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  468. Greater Manchester though and if you don't know the details its hard to see were Manchester ends and Salford begins.
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  469. As a German I've heard the same about Switzerland.
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  470. As German it reminds me of people who said: "But we did know..."
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  471. The world needed this video to get rid of antiquated misconceptions!! Bravo!
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  472. ​ @martini604 as an already murdered corpus you write comments very lively here ...
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  473. God will not bless Russia for violeting the commandments. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house.
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  474. Plus, there is no "real" bread in the UK 😂
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  475.  @maskaliki  not sure if the Prussian militarism had anything to do with East or West, South or North. Prussia was contradictive:it grew rapidly by being aggressive an demanding on the outside, but was liberal on the inside. Many people don't see the both side of the coin. Frederick the Great plaid flute and discussed with Voltaire but made war in Silesia.
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  476. All the smaller nations who feared to be russified during the Soviet Union feel like that.
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  477. (as the video also stated) ... there are about 400,000 Russian-born people living in the US now ... therefore your comment makes no sense.
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  478. I'm most bewildered by the old who came second: "our level of motivation is higher" how does he gets this idea? With some guys recruted by a mobilisation - right from the street, send to some unknown area outside of their country for ta purpose many don't understand... they should be more motived than Ukrainian guys who defend their homes and families? ...and then refering to the war memorial in Berlin - with the Soldier and the German girl just being symbolic. It is rather a well created myth ... were the story in reality would be rather like this, that the soldier raped the mother of the girl before. In using rape as a mean of war there is truely a parallel to the war in Ukraine.
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  479. Not even Russian can be that stupid to make the planet uninhabitable. What is the benefit to annex new territories, if they are nuclear contaminated in the end?
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  480. I don't get how you would "fight fascism" by turning Ukrainian villages into rubble. This "fascism" twaddle is the absurdest of the many made up reason for this war! There is nothing glorious about the RuZzian war. My condolences from Germany!
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  481. ​ @VodarM Bruh, the majority of the inhabitants spoke German and this for at least 6 centuries .Don't act as an ignorant. If there was something Polish, it was a distant king who lived in Warsaw and from who the proud independent Hanseatic city negotiated privileges and autonomy.
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  482. no-one fancies criticism.
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  483. Chinny, did you watch the video at all?
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  484. that sounds very much like reinterpreting historic data to the liking of todays politics ... especially drawing some far fetches traces. btw, never heard that Kant became Russian citizen ... not sure, where this comes from? Russian tv?!
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  485.  @Julio-io9hm  sounds somehow rassist, don't you think?
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  486. you can not only compare rents - you have to do this in connection with salary and the infamous "shopping cart". Folks in Germany usually spend one third (or a bit more) of their income on rent.
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  487. There is not such thing as "third world" in Poland. It use to be Second World, but it collapsed over 30 years ago.
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  488. my condolences!
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  489.  @purplemashine9122  now, I got it, but you have to think in English pronunciation and spelling. In standard German it would be: Sehr gut gesagt! Eins sind wir, sind alle von dem einen Himmel.
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  490.  @Lagolop  You might be right. For me as a native speaker of (modern) German I would assume I would understand those phrasen quiet well when spoken. Even those the Pennsylvanian Dutch speaker migrated in the 1700's and therefore kept expressions which appear old fashioned to me. The same with Yiddish. Where it becomes tricky is to read. Reading dialect is somehow difficult, even within German, because there is no standardized spelling to it (other than the standard spelling of "hochdeutsch"). But what is more confusing those American dialects applying an English spelling and an English pronunciation of vowels and consenants to it. The same with Yiddish: the transliteration is often made to fit to English, not to a German spelling norm. I would guess, you do the same. For example the pronunciation of 'S' and 'Z' in Standard German is switched to the the one in English with 'S' being soft/voised and 'Z' being sharp/voiceless). So, your ZAY GEZUNT would be spelled in Standard German SEI GESUND. the same with your UNZER which is 'unser'. 'Y' is not used very much in Standard German (other than in Dutch (from the Netherlands)) - so your 'AY'-sound would be useally spelled 'EI'. Si for me 'Gei in gezunterheyt' would be: Geh in Gesundtheit! (not very common) . But 'Blaybn gezunt' would be: Bleib gesund! and is often used in Germany. 'Bleib gesund!' is informal for friends and family - while 'Bleiben Sie gesund!' is formal for strangers or the older generation.
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  491.  @arandom1024  in German the German language is called 'Deutsch' or 'Deitsch' in the Pennsylvania dialect, which was mistaken by English speaking Americans as 'Dutch'. Well, the word Dutch has the same root and ment originally in English all kinds of German speaking people on the European continent before it was later reduce to just the variety of the Netherlands.
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  492.  @mrnam5515  though there was a larger influx of Russia-Germans in the 1990's - mainly people whos ancestors were expelled to Central Asia or Siberia and who wanted to leave these Eastern territories in time of post-communist turbulences but were not ready for the culture shock connected by moving to Germany straight.
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  493.  @James-wu6qh  only half of the GDR's population lived in areas with a Prussian tradition.
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  494. different tones - I wonder what that means?!
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  495.  @ОлекЛис  The number are vary, but between every 10th to 5th inhabitan of Georgia is an internal refugee due to the conflicts Russia fueled. That is a lot for such a small nation when they have tp provide aid and housing for those people.
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  496. No excuse for the horrible things Putin does in Ukraine ... but part of the problem is the US American attitude (as shown here in the introduction as well: "...the Soviet Union which was defeated in the nineties") Maybe Russia and Putin would not feel their losses that much, if the States would not insist they won the cold war. If someone won in the nineties than it were the people and nations of Central and Eastern Europe.
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  497. War over what? Herring fishing grounds?!
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  498. * die Nase reinstecken ("einstecken" has slightly other meanings) Usually a phrase would be: * die Nase in etwas stecken, das ihn/sie nichts angeht
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  499. there is nothing Polish about this land ... giving it to Poland wouldn't be rightful, but would just create the next injustice.
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  500. Let's face it: there is coal and iron in Donbas and potential gas and oil fields around Crimea. Even if Putin and his oligarchs don't mandatorily need to own this they are not keen on having competitors on the Europaen natural recource market.
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  501.  @sergeypopov2719  sorry to say that, but your tale is so predictable in demonizing Ukrainians and Zelenskiy and down playing the current devastion and killing. I don't see any excuse in your listing for bombing Kharkiv or Sumy to rubble and forcing innocent people to live in fear in their cellars. Banning the Russian language is not true either. This might apply for official document but not for every day life. And is it really that hard, if I live in Ukraine to exchange an "и" to am "i" when I fill out an official form once a year. Sure Ukraine has a neonazi problem, but is it enough to bomb all kind of Ukrainians. Sweden, Germany or France have also problems with neonazis and right extremist: so is Putin bombing Berlin, Paris and Stockholm next?!?
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  502.  @sergeypopov2719  I think, this conversation leads to nothing, you will easily find the opposite of your conspiracy theories on "youtube" and "facebook" as well. How do you know, what pictures I see? I don't remember that the Independence Square of Kharkiv is situated in Iraq or was already bombed in 2021. Besides Putin dispossessed when ever he likes...
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  503.  @sergeypopov2719  that whole war makes no sense as wars in general make civilians suffer, are barbaric and prehistoric. Still don't get how you want to know which information I consume. Your generalizations and assumptions just illustrate your bias agenda. Did you see the pictures of all "the 14000+ and a lot of children" you mentioned before?? Sorry, your argumention is just ridiculous. Please find someone else... BTW, France is already a nuclear power.
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  504. great imagery!
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  505.  @FreezyAbitKT7A  so when every sausage is alreday spray made, then there's still one thing every American household is lacking: a Wurst Fountain!!! Order now and receive it in time to surprise your loved ones for Christmas.
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  506. sure!11!11 Like Ukraine invaded Ruzzia so far...
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  507. a few hundreds of Russia-Germans moved there after the fall of SU, because it is still in "Russia" but close to relatives in Germany.
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  508. so it was over 700 years German and merely only 70 years Russian - that is your point? BTW, Königsberg or Kaliningrad were never be a part of a partition of Poland ... well that could be an indicator how much it belonged to former Poland. And even Germany was not involved in those partitions , but Prussia, Russia and Austria instead. It is interesting to read, how many Polish commentators come up with the partitions of the country in the 1700's, although it often has nothing to do with the city or region the videos are about. You get the feeling, that they don't realize that todays Poland has a very different location as the Poland, what was divided some 250 years ago...
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  509. there is hardly anything German in Kaliningrad today.
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  510. Just blame the victims of the aggression and make absurd accusations about the people in Ukraine who are suffering from Ruzzian attacks. This makes your comment very plausible!!1!!1!!!
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  511.  @TochkaTochkaZapaytaya  the so-called DPR and LPR are no victims - rather civilians suffering due to the actions of this separatist military junta.
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  512.  @TochkaTochkaZapaytaya  well, YOU think... just generalizing and calling some random people "nazis" just illustrates the origin from Ruzzian propaganda. I wish, the Russia admimistration would care half as much about the nazis inside Russia and amoung their mercenary armies. But I guess, they are not to be called like this , but rather "Special Far Right Operators"?!
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  513. for me its so obvious that bald and bankrupt has absolutly no clue what the Soviet Union looked like - from what it was like to which curtains were in style back then.
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  514. I would reckon that the American suburbia would mean higher costs for infrastructure: more roads, longer lines of sewage, electricity etc. I wounder if there are studies, what a city of a certain size in the US has to invest in infrastructure compared with the same size city in Germany/ Europe?!
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  515.  @TypeAshton  really interesting!
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  516. I would think May poles or May trees can be found all over Germany not just in Swabia.
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  517. Erika is not such a bad song, but was misused by marching routines especially in the nazi era.
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  518. @neo just start drinking it - it might cleanse.
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  519. Volcano, get a life! ... and go on with it!!
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  520. I puzzled: he has been living there for over 8 months with no other American around and he is not able speak one complete sentence of Russian. How will he judge what people think about the war in his town when he not even able to speak with them?
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  521.  @hellkitty1442  I'm from an area north of Thuringia. Dumpling as a side are not very common here, rather potatoes in various forms. People used their creativity to come up with recipes for leftover potatoes - like fried potatoes, potatoes salad or pancakes from leftover potatoe mash. Though, from old bread they made "Arme Ritter" - a sort of french toast, or "Klump" - oval shaped dumplings for soups.
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  522. Why on earth would someone need mustard with pretzels? Is this an American thing?
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  523.  @TheMiksu68  the worst thing is that Russia /Soviet Union did do anything with the gained land in Karelia. it is mostly deserted territory, the farm land is given up, villiages hardly exist anymore. Even Vyborg looks like a shaddow of its prosperous past. Why does Russia need this land when it doesn't do anything with it? Why does Russia need a devasted Donbass? What is the goal?
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  524. @Giorgio Ashton had a different name for green and yellow zuchini which was odd for me. As a German it would be the same just different color - I would also say it tastes the same. Or do Italians make a difference?
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  525. there is nothing glorious about bombing Ukraine and killing people there. Russians should be ashamed.
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  526. on the untouched fields just west of the intersection of A14 with B81
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  527. You are missing the point that there already 3 generations between these events ... and there is hardly anyone alive who remembers being expelled or being pransplanted to.
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  528. who worries?
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  529. It is bored from the Neanderthals- to be clear!!1!11!
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  530. to "return" something ... it should belong to that person before .
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  531. many places in Russia are like that. So...
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  532. @Petethehun poplar trees are fast growing in Central Europe and produce a soft wood which easily rots, Tradiditionally it is only used for producing wooden shoes here.
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  533. Olaf is not Donald.
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  534. says who?
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  535.  @thorstenguenther  you are right with the flag. I've noticed that as well.
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  536. I totally agree. I also watched her video. She is struggling with the same issues of self censorship, yet she made it mor clear where she stands.
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  537. That is the same thing I thought: They just had a Berlin or big city perspective with old pubs closing down and new bars popping up. But the reality in rural areas and small villages looks much different. There has been a pub dying over decades and corona shut downs even added to it. In the good old times every village had one or even several pubs, a bakery, a corner shop, maybe a butcher... Most of it is gone nowadays and these village don't have a place wher people could meet up and gather. Therefore you can notice that many villagres install a village hall aka Dorfgemeinschaftshaus.
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  538.  @ElliotShayle  well this only an effect in an urban context.
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  539. I hope there will be places in Ukraine where people can live in peace too.
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  540. What kind of conspiracy theory is that?
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  541. First, as a German speaker, Anglish words seem familiar, because they sound like mirrow translations from German ... but then you realise that German itself borrow from French, Latin or Greek and even German would have to be purified. In the end it just reminds you of the nazis who wanted to ban French and Latin based words and ordered their replacement by more Germanic ones ... and so the whole thing gets an strange aftertaste and becomes odd.
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  542.  @arty5876  I don't Know what "western media" it would be to care which soda Russians drink?!? But I agree with analyis of "independent" But comparing him with standard Russian propaganda he is probably as neutral as one can get in todays Russia. You can not compare it with journalist outside Russia.
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  543.  @lukasnummer1  well, obviously she does as well in same degree.
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  544. Surpass in what? Lame internet, delayed trains, lack of craftsmen, bureaucracy etc. are worth achieving and excelling.
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  545. what has Hitler to do with the EU? Sorry, most stupid comment so far...
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  546. What is "racial dominance"?
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  547. I don't don't get what a pipeline has do do with Merkel nor do I get what a round piece of steel has to do with enviromental concerns. If someone has enviromental concerns over the usage of natural gas, then they shouldn't USE it! It is not a matter how this gas is transported. And if someone decides natural gas is need as a n interims source of energy, then it desn't matter in which pipeline it is transported - in the end it's going to be the same Russian gas whether flows through the south or the north. All this geopolitical tension between the US and Russia is just projectet on the pipeline, but this piece of metal is not causing it.
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  548. well there might be a cycle lane, but it is often an afterthought - while in the Netherlands or Danemark cycling is done with a priority concept behind.
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  549. @Manero yet, you had to effort the journey and if you didn't have the money you had take on the risk and will to pay it back. BTW, a lot of the migration was also caused by political and religious reasons.
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  550.  @Dominicn123  well, this the border line between this power sphere thinking and RuZZian imperialism is rather fluent. in regards to the other comment, it sounded just interesting and then I was just wondering what a "youtuber" does when he has no videos published on his channel
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  551. yeah, crazy ... these anglo-saxons and their ideas about raw meat ... almost as crazy as non refrigerated eggs, I guess.
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  552.  @noctilucera7585  that is a cultural phenomenon. In Germany it is normal to eat cooked meat (when kept in the fridge) cold the next day - like leftover roast or meatballs. When I had British or American roommates that was a no-go for them - and I don't no whay?! The same with horse meat: generally an US-American won't touch it.
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  553. Living south of the border in Kiel you can recieve two Danish channels from my cable provider. It is so difficult to listen to a movie or talk show. If it is writen on the screen e.g. like the questions in a quiz show it helps and understanding gets better.
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  554. Its clickbaiting, for sure. @Roman: I wonder, what "well known nationalist politics in the former DDR" would be? I don't see any other politics than in the rest of Germany there - mainly nationalist politicians are in no governing position.
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  555. Bernette is quite a character - very likeable.
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  556. Grützwurst gibt es in vielen deutschen Regionen mit unterschiedlicher Rezeptur und Namen. In meiner Region heißt sie "Lose Wurst" und wie der Name schon sagt, ähnelt dem, was Feli auf dem Teller hat: ein angebratener brockiger Brei ( und kein Fleischklops, Boulette oder Bairisches Fleischpflanzerl)
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  557.  @justasrankauskas9923  actually, in some region of Africa Germany has a positive image, because they built infrastructure like railways lines - and than the British took over after the war and exploited the countries. Even so the Germans had the thing in mind, they never came to it. They are associated with building infrastructure and the British with exploiting.
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  558.  @rudzwal2314  the death camps where controlled by SS. Men deliberately joint the SS and 50% were not from places which are in today's Germany. Reducing the crude ideology of fascism and nazism and its devastating results to some ethnic thing is also typically Polish.
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  559. Do the people really want this - or some elite benefitting from this political situation?
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  560.  @barfuss2007 , wie gesagt Dresden ist nicht Bochum und die Straßen und Feldwege in der Uckermark sind nicht mit denen in München zu vergleichen. Ich war zu DDR-Zeiten nicht in Dresden. Ich weiß aber, dass Zwinger, Schlosskirche und Brühlsche Terrasse dort schon mehrere Hundert Jahre stehen und dies auch während der DDR taten. Die Semperoper wurde auch schon während der DDR wiederaufgebaut und rekonstruiert. Von einer "Müllhalde" mitten in Dresden habe ich noch nie etwas gehört. Über die Verwandschaftsverhältnisse derjenigen Bauarbeiter, die in Dresden nach der Wende etwas wiederaufgebaut haben oder derjenigen, die sich dort eine Eigentumswohnung gekauft haben, bin ich nicht informiert. Natürlich ist es durchaus wahrscheinlich, dass dort viele "Westdeutsche" beteiligt sind, wenn es viermal so viele "Westdeutsche" wie "Ostdeutsche" gibt und darüberhinaus auch viele "Westdeutsche" historisch bedingt eher über die finanziellen Mittel verfügen. Aber das führt dann auch zu einer weiteren müßigen Diskussion, wer oder was ist ein "Westdeutscher" oder wer oder was ist ein "Ostdeutscher"? Das u.a. fast 30 Jahre nach dem Beitritt definieren zu wollen, ist schon eine kühne Aufgabe. Ich selbst bin nahe der ehemaligen innerdeutschen Grenze aufgewachsen mit einem Teil der Familie in Dorf (Ost) und dem anderen in Dorf(West) - da wirkt das Auseinanderdividieren erst recht überholt.
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  561. Is this the official PiS campaign strategy for the election? I hope some of the voters realise that the 13 Billion EU subsidies Poland receives yearly come in large parts from the German tax payer. Becoming "a future superpower" will only work for Poland when it will work together with Germany.
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  562.  @janpol466  who said so?
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  563. @paper plane welcome to Europe, a continent full of history! ... and history that included nazism or imperialism. Though most countries on the continent learned from these experiences and arrive in the 21st century with the decision: never again! Just Putler didn't he obviously get the memo.
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  564. Where did you get this alternative history from? The town was founded by the Teutonic Knights in 1255 and was named Königsberg (king's mount) in honor of king Ottokar II of Bohemia..
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  565.  @numbersix8919  Socialism doesn't equal war and it's memorials. Socialism was not just Soviet Union. If some (not the majority) look back and say it was not all bad, it doesn't mean they agree with Stalin and his atrocities. One should clearly differenciate!
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  566. Nowadays, in contempary German it sounds disrespectful to use "Fraeulein".
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  567. it would be even more healthy just to leave it.
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  568.  @aidos8448  what do I think and what I don't understand? Since I and the rest of the readers have not the same telepathic abilities like you, you would need to explain more.
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  569.  @aidos8448  which of your our loved ones have suffered for almost 10 years? Do you know anybody personally? Those Russians who are send to war in Ukraine are drafted men from all over Russia or employed mercenary forces who do it for money and not for relatives.
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  570.  @aidos8448  you tell me! what would be a plausible reason brothers, fathers and sons fight against each other?? What are NATO countries really doing? Other than providing weapons and defense systems to Ukraine, resources of which Russia has plentyfull and Ukraine has little. I totally agree with delivering air defense system which can get Russian rockets and drones off the Ukrainian sky and make life for the people in Ukraine a bit safer. Your friend in the DPR - did he suffer from Ukrainian adminstration in the last 10 years? Was he hurt or discriminated in the 10 years you were refering to? Rather serious numbers (not Solowjow's weird stories on tv) suggest that in the 10 years of conflict in Donbas a realively small number of civiliants were harmed and killed, but the overwhelming majority were Russian paid separatist fighters.
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  571.  @aidos8448  Thanks for detailed answers. Many things are hard to understand for people outside of Donbas. Regional differences, historic affiliations, different historic heros und subcultures are all you would find within Germany as well. Still no-one here will get the idea of militarly attacking other regions or let France or Poland interfere and let them send money and weapons. Earning 15,000 is really a lot and I guess Moscow pays for it. Well, if your friends call themselves "fighter" and go to a battleground they are aware of the risk being killed. Statistics I've seen about deathtoll in Donbas between 2014 and 2021 spoke about 10,000 dead "fighters", but "only" around 300 civilian casualties. Every life is precious and everyone dying create a gap for his family, but if you decide to solve conflicts or interests in the 21st century as a "fighter" then you take on the risk of being harmed. The issue about the language law is also hard to follow. This law was just introduced in 2012 before it got suspended in 2014. Before 2012 people could live in piece without this law for more than 20 years without killing eachother. And what I also don't understand, why allegedly NATO countries had an interest that Ukraine does not comply with the Minsk agreements? - when in reality the NATO countries France and Germany made this agreement possible with their moderation...
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  572.  @aidos8448  Well, all what you write could be mirrowed on the other side. There is Russian army, Russian mercenaries und Russian language separatists who attack residential buildings, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, and public transport stops, power stations, water reservoirs without any mercy for civilians. I can hardly believe that people feel saver in the middle of the frontline. No-one wants to sit in the basements for days and weeks witout water, electricty or proper food. I hope and I guess that most of the residents fled the front line places. Well storming adminstrative buildings with wappons and building barricades is not a democratic process but rather civil war, and would not be tolerated in Kyiv either. I dont know what "400 thousand people overthrow the government" means? Is this a conspiracy theory? President and parlament were elected. Also I didn't realise that 15,000 were rubels ... though $200 sounds questionable, sine Real Reporter just showed an soldier earning $2,500 in his most recent video. I guess this is still this imperialistic nature of Russia to have this idea they could make decisions about other indepent, sovereign countries whether they could join and which defense alliance. Well, maybe during the unification process of Germany there were discussions that no NATO troops should be stationed in former Eastern Germany, but if at all Germany can make this condition only for its own territory. But who is Germany to decide whether Hungary, Estonia or Finnland is allowed to join Nato?!? This is not of its business.
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  573. I don't know, what the message of the video is. Making light hearted shopping tour in a well heated supermarket and making fun of the hypocrisy and ineffectness of sanction while people dying in Ukraine or sitting without drinking water, heat and food in their basement. The luck of empathy in Russia to the real victims of this war is shocking again and again in those videos.
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  574. So, why would Ruzzia and Putler then throw bombs on them?
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  575.  @Spielername  20% is not "sky rocket". Yes prices increased, but very differently according to the kind of product. Plus saisonal price difference have to be considered as well. Compared to the price increase of building materials in latest years - the food increase is rather moderate.
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  576. @Micheal, adding apple and some spices like cloves, laurel and allspice is a pretty standard procedure to make Rotkohl. Though this might already If you really want to give it a secret twist you can add some sour cherries or some red current jam.
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  577.  @515aleon  it is not really a secret, adding apples is pretty standard. Though caraway sounds unusual for red cabbage. Adding Caraway to white cabbage is more common. Caraway helps with the "belly wind" caused by the cabbage. My grandmother used to change the water after a few minutes when boiling the cabbage. This also makes the cabbage less "gasy".
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  578. I see also disadvantages or risks of introducing English as a second languages. Yes, many Germans do speak English but on mediocre level - far from being perfect. If they had to talk and write to eachother in English they would rather teach eachother mistakes. Germany is a land of highly specialized medium size businesses which often have special terms and precise definitions. Having a vague English full of mistakes wouldn't help there much.
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  579.  @therat1117  okay, know we know: Czechs can not write proper Polish! 🤣 Maybe the name was not proper Polish to begin with? Have you though about it? A German eye can also see Danzig in Gyddanyz. And Kdansk is also not exactly Gdansk! The same way as Danceke in the 1200's could be interpreted as Danzig.
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  580. their country?! ... but also their people???.... they love there political opposition so much that thy want them save behind bars. ... and they love there young men so much that they turned already 200,000 of them into dead cannon fodder. yes, so much love and respect!!1!!!!1
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  581. Eggplants have male and female flowers, but the fruits are all the same - or am I wrong? And BTW, whats so bad about some seeds in the eggplant?
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  582. Schiffelers liquorice is popular in Germany and Finnland, too. Thought the liquorice root grows in South like in Southern Italy.
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  583.  @alek9195  mainly Russians, about 90% ... as in other parts of the former USSR there is an ethnic mix with the rest being for example Ukrainians, Belorussians, Lithuanians, Arminiens or Germans and others. Remarkable is that over 50% of the population was not born there - this is partly due to the large number of army employees who are just stationed there.
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  584.  @Markersob  I'm not sure how you theoretically calculate that claim "it belonged to Poland for a majority of it's existance"? Does this mean the period from 1466 to 1657, the 191 years as a fief of the Polish crown is the "majority of it's existance". That doesn't make sense since even after 1657 already 366 years have past - which is already nearly double the time of the "Polish period".
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  585.  @asjaosaline5987  Kaliningrad was not a part of Prussia: Kaliningrad ist the Russian name of the city and of the oblast after the war - after the desolvation of Prussia. The German city of Königsberg which was situated on the site of todays Kaliningrad used to be part of Prussia. This city was heavily destroyed during the war and the city centre is hardly recognizable now. Germany did not annex Prussia. (I don't know where this nonsense come from ... I've already red this several times in the comments) There was no annexation, because the state of Prussia was the main initial founding member in creating the German Empire in 1871 - and therefore the Germany in a modern sense.
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  586.  @asjaosaline5987  I don't share your conspiracy theory. Rules, standards or regulations are not made to terrorize non-Eu-members. There are made that different countries and companies can work together because technical details fit together ...and to strengthen customer rights when it comes to safety, health, enviromental standards and so on.
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  587. Is their a scientific source for this alternative history?
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  588.  @pocketdynamo5787  do you follow German politics in detail? During her 16 years there were this group of West German men in her own party who tried to undermine her position - though she was able to keep them in their place.
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  589. you forgot the lizzard people, witches and dragons in your story!
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  590.  @duncantorrance1976  actually Douglas fir is considered fairly hard and durable in Germany - just in comparision to other (fast) trees growing here.
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  591.  @rafgraph  I'm not sure about your patterns. Ukraine has coal ... and potentially oil and gas. And actually, I 'm convinced that the current war is about precisely this. Plus 1945 to 1990 are already two generations. And after 1990 there is another whole generation... either way ... and no matter which part of the former USSR there is nobody alive who met Lenin as a living person.
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  592.  @MrGregHiller  because you wrote: "I wish the country where I live would leave the EU.." without saying what country that would be.
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  593.  @MrGregHiller  I doubt this numbers. Italians maybe. But French, Dutch or Belgian are merely pro EU when it comes to popular opinions.
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  594.  @MrGregHiller  I can't tell you, who funny girl is ... or what your talk about the EU has to do with the topic of this video after all. But I can clearly tell you that a referendum about the European constitution has nothing to do whether to join the EU or not.
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  595.  @jb894  your comment is terrible.
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  596.  @jb894  why don't you move there?
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  597. "Hochfelden" sounds like deep into France 😉
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  598. which part of Prussia you are talking about? The independent dukedom? Or the part which excepted the Polish king but insisted on its autonomy? When Lithuanians accepted a Polish king, does it means that they became Poland??
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  599. what was this video about? It feels like 90% intro followed by 10% sponsor and then... the end!
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  600. I feels bizarre when people mix reality with gaming.
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  601.  @TheMajorStranger  maybe today. But in regards to textile industry it was Chemnitz. Chemnitz recently won the application process for Europes cultural capital - so there is a change going on, too.
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  602. you are right, though he didn't claim that Anglosaxon, Plattdeutsch or Frisian was a High German dialect. Anglosaxon is even only a historical language.
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  603.  @lisamoulton2540  , yes, Germans would do that. There is not a rule for it, but it seems to be also more convenient.
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  604.  @TheNasa85  I agree with the existing stereotype of France = baguette, cheese, red wine ... But not with: France = bread
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  605.  @krste3000  you will hardly find pure rye breads in Germany. Most of the time it is a mixture depending on the recipe. In so-called rye breads the portion of the flour is larger. Meaning: there are 50 shades of grey when it comes to German bread and this variety is unique.
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  606.  @perrosalchicho  pizza and pasta are not considered bread in most places... 😉
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  607.  @newguy4298  actually some historians say that people started systematically growing cereals in the middle east and therefore started agriculture not for bread or alike but for producing alcohol.
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  608.  @didierduplantier8359  okay, your last comment definitly proved that you have little clue what your are talking about - you are just playing the troll here.
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  609.  @didierduplantier8359  just admit that you have no clue what you're talking about... Germany is not more known for pastries than France.
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  610.  @didierduplantier8359  since you only have been a few times to Germany you can hardly tasted the over 300 varieties. Most likely you only tasted a few doughy, dense varieties. BTW, every bread tastes great fresh out off the oven ... rye bread tastes irresistibly fresh from the oven. And every bread tastes great with butter.
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  611.  @Jamirio  what has "cuisine" to do with bread? There are many countries in world mit refined cuisine in the world and small bread tradition and variety.
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  612.  @Jamirio  does Aldi/Lidl do this? I haven't noticed that. In my Aldi they work together with a local traditional German baker and therefore promote this. Aldi often has regional product families: Greek, Italian, French, Oriental, ... etc.
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  613.  @georgelegoupy8882  that's good! I thought, French get only emotional about the English and don't care about German... ;-)
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  614.  @felar939  even certifying is soooooo German!
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  615.  @annieroche22  you didn't get my comment - it was a sarcastic response to the fact that nowadays bread is one of the only things of national pride for Germans and what they care about.
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  616.  @R.W.KING_KONG  an Viennese!
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  617.  @MAKgargos  @2:40 Feli erklärt, das Juden im 10.Jh ins Rheintal einwanderten und die lokale deutsche Sprachvariante annahmen. Die Lautverschiebung, aus der Oberdeutsch/Hochdeutsch hervorging und die Altniederdeutsch und Altenglisch nicht mitmachten, geschah in mehreren Phasen - war aber im 10. Jahrhundert für die Konsonanten abgeschlossen. Der Wechsel von t zu z, von dem Roland sprach, geschah wohl schon im 5. und 6. Jahrhundert und damit bevor sich die künftigen Jiddisch-Sprecher der oberdeutschen Sprachvariante annahmen und diese weiterentwickelten. Um bei deinen Buchstaben zu bleiben: wenn sich die Ursprungssprache U bereits im 5. Jahrhundert in A, B, C aufsplittet und sich aus C (Oberdeutsch) modernes Standarddeutsch C1 und Jiddish C2 entwickelt, ist es unwahrscheinlich, dass ein B2-Sprecher größere Ähnlichkeiten als ein C1-Sprecher feststellen kann.
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  618. People not understanding the next village was maybe the case 200 years ago. But nowadays with everyone watching the same radio and tv station this is not a realistic scenario.
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  619. His story is not very special or interesting... it is only interesting in a context of Russian / American propaganda.
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  620.  @evilleader1991  I haven't heard about the Norwegains going to jail for 8 years because of an opposing opion on Putler's war.
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  621.  @brianmiller5444  for me it is hard to compare, since wages are usually higher (in dollar) and also rent in the US. But people pay less taxes in the States, but have little health care. Food is often more expensive in the US but energy and gas lower.
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  622.  @redvillainy  a cat and a dog are no reason to get rude in the comment section.
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  623.  @kolossoshussle9584  why did you, aka 'we', say no in 1989? I don't remember you saying anything.
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  624.  @kolossoshussle9584  yes, and I didn't want to "have Kaliningrad back", because I don't have any family connection to this place and there is nothing German there nowadays, anyhow.
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  625.  @kolossoshussle9584  was intressiert einen Bayern Kaliningrad? In der Regel intressieren die sich noch nicht einmal für Neubrandenburg oder Greifswald.
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  626.  @kolossoshussle9584  warst du schon mal in Kaliningrad? Das wäre wahrscheinlich eher ein fremdländischer Eindruck...
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  627. why would it be Poland's or Lithuania's, dude?
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  628. Just because the inhabitants of a town or city accepted a Polish king as a rule because he offered autonomy and privileges doesn't mean they were Polish and didn't speak German.
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  629. interesting. In German "schmalzig" (greasy) - or therefore "schmaltzy" is when a song or a scene is over the top kitschy.
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  630.  @FROOBELINKALIKAT-p9z  The video portraits a region of Germany, which is amoungs of those with the least rain per annum. Plus it has fairly poor soil with just pine forest. Three years in a row with drought slowly taking there toll with falling ground water levels and dying trees. There is a second phenomenon to consider: studies and models regarding results of climate change show that this particular part of Germany will get less and less rain in spring - in the time when those trees want to grow new branches.
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  631. ​ @pgwp78 what did you have in your breakfast? Attacking others but writing a bunch of nonsense. Do you have any source or record that todays Polish names of Szczecin, Wroclaw or Gdansk were in use in e.g. in the 11th century? I can't find any. The Polish and the German names are based on older, but different West Slavic names, often with different spelling in the historical records. There is some misconception in Polish nationalistic narratives: not all historic Western Slavs were automatically Poles and old Kashubian, Silesian, Pomeranian, Sorbian or Hevelli names are not totally identical with modern Polish names.
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  632.  @donalkinsella4380  Russia is not a great exporter except for fossil fuels and wappons.
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  633. ... and here comes the next portraying Russia as the victim in the conflict: right, it is the evil West which forces the Russian military to throw bombs on Mariupol - yeah right!111!!1!!1!!
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  634.  @FelifromGermany  I agree, it is hard to answer. Of course some dishes are altered to the American taste and optics. But German cuisine can vary from one German region to the other. And I have the feeling, too that German dishes in the States are often Bavarian style. I noticed that with red cabbage (Rotkohl) which rather served in a South German style.
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  635. Well, it is hard to love things, when it it is difficult to get to know these places, when it is hard to enter Russia and when its aggressive politicians and policies frighten people.
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  636. Kohl could make some promises for Germany, because he was the head of this country. But he could not decide about the future fate of souvereign countries like Poland or Hungary ... and he surely never ment this. Weird idea that a Russian leader had such expectations.
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  637. Or isn't it Germany, because it is Russia?!? 🤔
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  638. I think it is Mother Teresa's fault and the fault of the lizzard people that Russian Slavs kill Ukrainian Slaves and viscera!!1!!11!!!!
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  639. Nobody is as dumb... Well, some as Putler started this dumbest war since decades...
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  640. The brother has an accent, but not really a heavy German one. Keep in mind that he is probably not used to speak English daily and probably a bit nervous in front of a camera. Btw, he as a slight accent in German, too: an Bavarian.
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  641. Fleeing from a sudden war is not an easy task. One should not judge and can only fully understand when in the same situation. Unfortunately, the video portrays the persons in a way that it is easy to be judgemental.
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  642.  @SpankyRivera , do you know the term: dialect continuum? Dialect A is quite similar to dialect B, an dialect B has only small diffrences to dialect C. Dialect C can be easily understood by dialect D. The same with dialect D and E, and than again between E and F. But dialect F has trouble understanding dialect A because all those small differences accumulate. It seems the areas with the same dialect are larger in the North and the small differences accur on smaler areas in the south. There could be two reasons for it: Geographically, it is pretty much flat in the North and very few geographical barriers, while in the South there are more mountains and valleys and people sticked with their dialect to a certain valley. Historically, all those trillions of German kingdoms, duchies and principalities are larger in North and smaller in the south. There is a saying: Language is a dialect with an army. That applies for example for Dutch. Even the people at the Border of The Netherlands and Germany understand their dialects fairly well, Dutch has an own spelling system and is it's own language. I'm not sure how to rate Letzeburgish (Luxembourg dialect)? It is it's own country and uses it's own spelling system. Somehow Alsatian (german dialect in France) uses it's own spelling system nowadays as well. In Switzerland, though Swiss German spoken is very different, they use Standard German (like in Austria and Germany) for writing. Basically Swiss Germans are bilingual using Swiss and Standard German parallelly. Sometimes you see young Swiss texting or tweeting in Swiss German with a regional spelling. If their is a standard for it - I do not know. All the dialects Radical Living mentions in his video don't have a standardized spelling. He just made some spelling up to illustrate the differences. Those dialects are somehow inter-communicable. It just depents how often you are exposed to the other dialect. Sometimes it needs some practice to get what they are saying in a very strong dialect, becaus your ears are not trained to pick up their version of words. On the other hand there could be diffrent words for the same thing. That's whay Radical Living used a sentence with "bread roll" in it. There are so many names and expressions for bread rolls in these various dialects. But once you learned that there these other expressions exist, you are good to go. There is the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. It is a European treaty adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe. It is signed by Germany (in contrary France has been constitutionally blocked from ratifying the Charter) and the following apply as minority languages in Germany: Danish, Frisian, Sorbian and Romani (Sinti). Low German (or Plattdeutsch in the video) is regarded as a regional language in terms of the treaty. So, one can argue tha Plattdeutsch is a language not a dialect ... even by Europaen norms. That leads us to the point Ian was writing about the Hanover slang. Since Low German differs so much from Standard German, it was suppressed in the last centuries and only Standard German was taught in schools in Norther Germany. Pupil learned it almost as a second/foreign language. That's the reason the spoken German in those region is so close to Standard German nowadays. If people from Hanover migrated to Texas 200 or 150 years ago they spoke probably a diffrent version of German than the people of Hanover today. Though I'm not sure about the story of the Huns Ian told above.
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  643. why Poland? What is Polish about it?
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  644.  @raditicat  I thought, nuellman is refering to Ischtar Gate and Pergamon Altar.
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  645. What is Czech about it and especially today?
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  646.  @JustRobertCZE  who is we ... and are you and your friends somehow at least 750 years old? ...and how did "the Germans take it from you"?
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  647. I don't like the impression the thumbnail suggests: Allegedly those fleeing to the west just do it for the money - and those fleeing for Russia do it bare handed out of higher moral values.
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  648. very well selected questions and answers ... I'm not sure if the People intervieweddid realise the parallels in these question and therefore the contradictions and double standards in their answers. Actually, I was more impressed by 22 year old Iwan anylising the conflict economically than 70 year old Elena just repeating propaganda. Being born in East Germany I'm also puzzled to a degree by Elena. We learn from a young age to distinguish between the official (absurd) propaganda and the more likely thruth. I wonder why she didn't gain these skills?! Or was the situation so different for us being exposed to western and eastern media simultaneously all the time.
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  649. Well what if you include the Jutland peninsula then Schleswig is geographically in it.
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  650. Maybe because it has little to with the topic?!
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  651. Ikemen, I guess you come some 100 years to late. It has been a touristic area for very long. There are many hiking routes - just choose your toures wisely. Many tourist just flock to certain points like the Bastei and Radical Living did. Avoid those and you are fine and your stay is relaxing.
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  652. Let me guess: you vote for PiS?!
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  653. Here in Europe we eat all growing stages of cucumber: from pickled cornichons to fermented gherkins, from sliced fresh cucumber salat to ripe ones pickled with mustard or fried as a side dish.
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  654. Genau, nur Nazis - bis auf das Rotkäppchen und der Wolf, die leben ja auch dort.
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  655. The people I knowd regard adding salt to butter as a sign of lower quality as it is binding extra water.
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  656. The Danish party usually gets more votes than there are actually people of the Danish minority. A few ethnically "standard Germans" also send their kids to the Danish kindergarten or school, because their schools are better equipped and financed by the Danish state.
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  657.  @eXTreemator  most stupid comment.
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  658. I think No. 2 for Russian is not fair, since it is well structured and generally sticks to its rules with almost no exceptions. (said by a native German speaker)
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  659. ... win a ticket to The Hague!?!
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  660. there is a difference: The Germans assimilated . The Russian expelled everyone.
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  661. Also, ich hab 20 Ex-Ossi-Familien und genauso viele Immernoch-Ossi-Familien im Freundeskreis und deren Eltern sind in der Regel alle in Ordnung. Naja, manche haben Glück beim Spiel und Pech im Freundeskreis.
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  662. thanks god, you are not.
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  663. Have you been outside of Russia before?
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  664. ​ @lalipap2682 how many children were killed in Donbas in 8 years - and how many were killed by Ruzzian aggression in the last year? You do the math!
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  665. "defending" by bombing other countries ... "natural"?! 🤣🤣😂 Man, you should talk to your doctor about the side effect of your medicamentation...
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  666. what kind of numer is that?
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  667. ...and they have fleas, are rotten transformers and have sex with turtles!!!1!!!1!! It must be true, since they say on Ruzzian state tv!!1!+11!!
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  668. I never had "Halve Hahn" - but from pictures I saw it looks like the most boring thing you could eat in Germany.
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  669. How did they support nazi Germany?
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  670. what has the US or EU to do with Russians buying all kinds of coke?
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  671. I guess, that was the biggest surprise so far for Putler.
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  672. Yeah right, Ukrainian children just making up the bombing notice while sitting the school's shelter room.... these are just friendly Russian fireworks outside!!1!!1!
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  673. most stupid comment so far.
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  674. I wonder what a "accent smuggler" is?
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  675. viel Spaß beim Hinziehen!
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  676. 😂🤣
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  677. No.
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  678.  @mcearlgrey  net
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  679. this is more a recent development in the last decade or two. In the 1950's and 1960's many German inscription where knocked off buildings making sure that little reminds of the German past. Especially in Wroclaw you can often see the knocked off letters making the embossing sometimes still readable.
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  680. well, this could be the beginning of a wonderful love-hate-relationship since Jim obviously has so much in common with Donald, who himself is an activist, who pretends to be a president. That man himself is ...
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  681. How comes?
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  682. ​ @AlexandraAlexal  finally a reason why Ruzzia invaded and bombed Ukraine - to "destroy their illusionary world". For my taste they are not destroying Ukrainians' illusionary, but their real world, houses and families.
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  683. ​ @ВикторияЛеви-у6з  whataboutism again? The topic is people suffering and fleeing Ukraine due to Russian attacks.
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  684. ​ @paceeterna9826  wild theories with Swedes and Tartars!
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  685. because it is a piece of cheesecake??
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  686. Sounds similar to the propaganda stories Putler makes up.
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  687. Bombed out Ukrainians find the type of alternative histories not so easy.
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  688. Hypocrites are those who speaking of brotherly nations and then bomb people in Ukraine.
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  689. The best food in Hamburg can be found in the Portuguese and Spanish restaurants in the Portugieserviertel (Portuguese quarter) - close to the Landungsbrücken - harbour / waterfront area. Apart from this, regarding Hamburg style food you should try a Matjes roll (raw pickled herring). Ashton and Jonathan only showed a Bismarck roll (boiled pickled herring). Also the Hamburg style eel soup is interesting - a combination of fatty savoury eel with rather sweet dried fruits in a broth.
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  690. Pomerania is within the EU nowadays and people in Szczecin orientate themself as much to Berlin as to Warsaw.
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  691. Mexico is in America, duh!
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  692.  @СергейПупкин-у9ш  why should I ? I did not claim otherwise...
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  693. If in doubt, it's all Germany's fault ... says Charon and turns on her gas heater to take a nice hot bath.
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  694. A division yes - but not the same with another social- economic context.
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  695.  @martini604  has one part of Poland a Kalifat?
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  696.  @Terminemo  but the Soviet Union imposed communist rule on all parts of the new Poland therefore it is no parallel to Germany.
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  697. What about the majority for rental announcements saying "Slavic only" in Moscow. What do you think how "inferior" non-Slavs feel when searching for an apartment?!
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  698.  @shaulbenshimon6463  well, those apartments announcements sound like pretty rassism. It just one example and illustrates that NOT "all is okay", NOT "all is just fine". Russia faces many construction sites: democracy, freedom of speech, free press, right for minority for social group, alcohol misuse, domestic violence, living in peace and not destabilizing neighbouring countries etc...etc..
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  699.  @shaulbenshimon6463  listen up! This is sad. Well, there is always a way to talk things in a nice light. Yeah, you can also call beating up wives almost to death as "traditional Russian family values" and change the law to make it not a crime but only a minor infraction.
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  700. Kaliningrad is on the Baltic Sea, not the North Sea.
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  701. excellent description😂
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  702. it is a continent.
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  703. Sometimes I wonder, why is it so often, that Americans "can not" eat certain "foreign" foods? Is it the texture, which is not familiar? Though head cheese or paté does exist in other countries - English speaking as well... With American guest I noticed that some flavors in Europe are to strong for American tast buds: fish rolls could be too fishy, cheese too strong, licorice too spicy... Maybe American food is often more processed and milder?! Yet, American food could be very sweet to my palette.
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  704. is this the same sword which already has Ukrainian blood on it?
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  705.  @АлефтинГринов  the 6 century? what? those people are 1,500 years dead! 1,500 years would be like 60 generation in between. I do believe already after 8 generations it is hard to proof that you are related to a certain person and from the same "blood".
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  706. It is truly hard to believe your parallel propaganda world if your not exposed to Ruzzian media all the time.
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  707. @Viet one can only shake the head about your comment. I don't know how you like if someone bombs your home as a "lesson"?! What an inhumane talk?!
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  708. Everybody is losing in a war - and even if it is a generation of young Russian who became cannon fodder.
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  709. @Keks Dose I doubt these numbers. At least in Germany a lot of the "bakeries" are just branch stores of a bakery chain.
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  710. @Keks Dose to me it does matter, because these are not traditional independent bakeries with a stone oven in the backroom. These franchise branch stores are just sale points ... or maybe at best they receive half backed products which they finish off in an air circulation cabin.
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  711. @Keks Dose did you watch the video? and get the topic? It is about the better taste of traditional Europaen bread. I have a traditional baker in my village who bakes with his traditional stone oven heated with wood. And I can tell you: you can test the difference to reheated prefabricated industrial produced baking goods.
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  712.  @jovosedlar3395  especially in Europe you have often a dialect continuum with neighbouring dialects fairly similar and therefore mutual intelligible. And then once in a while one of those dialect becomes the standard for a national language: like the Moscow dialect is the standard for Russian or the Florence dialect is the base for Italian. And if the Kyiv dialect becomes the standard for Ukraine, is the official language in this country and has it's own spelling, terms and expressions - then it is a language!
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  713.  @jovosedlar3395  again, you show that you have little knowledge about the topic language - dialect - regiolect - colloquial language. Why don't you just start at least educating yourself about the subject?
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  714.  @jovosedlar3395  I don't kwow, what "jesuite" means and especially not what it means for you?! Unfortunatly, you haven't learned anything about linguistics since 9, too.
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  715. If I accuse other people and other countries of being "nazis" , then I have to clean up my own backyard, too ...and check if my community and my country fullfils these standards. The same comes with accusing others of russophobia ... Russian needs to reflect how the suppressed and treated other ethnic groups. The oneside view and propaganda is part of the recent problem.
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  716. good for you!
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  717. what is Polish about it?
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  718. did you watch the video?
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  719. Not Russia but Putler: is he looking to secure offshore gas and oil field for his oligarch clique? Is dreaming of a lost empire? Does he want to manipulate his shrinking population statistics by adding a few million Ukrainians? Or is he too big of a coward to admit that he f*cked up with this senseless war?
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  720.  @WIDE_BUTTER  did Russia apply for Nato membership? and when?
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  721.  @WIDE_BUTTER  this version is pretty unknown, and nothing like an official application, but rather thoughts of single politicians I guess. Anyhow, just just hypothetically ... does this justify the attack on Ukraine? If I can't get into the club, I will beat up the guy next in line - so he won't get in either. Not even stupid teenagers think this way.
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  722. Mowana, one aspect is that in the media only standard (high) German is spoken. Compare that to England, where you can find regional news red in a regional dialect or tv series with much more regional language colour. But language is evolving. If you really had preserved the dialects in and around Berlin you would have trouble understanding the Brandenburger, since he or she would speak Märkisch Platt.
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  723.  @Siegbert85  not really, if you watch tv they pretty much hear standard German in tv series, whether it "In aller Freundschat" nobody speak Upper Saxon in the Sachsenklinik or nobody uses Swabian in "Soko Stuttgart" - just to give random examples.
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  724. But is the opposite (e.g. Russia) with not considering civil, women's, LTGB or minority rights really better?
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  725.  @michaelsommers2356  the homeowner story and that "American soldiers liked the German people a lot more than they liked the French" sounds more like hearsay story of a certain person.
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  726. I disagree: The video is done in a very common typical perspective, where the West German view is the norm and standard and the focus is on the East as the special case and exeption.
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  727. ​@Man on mission, there are similarities but both languages are not generally intelligible.
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  728. Cyril, when you that old you start to forget. You are not going forget your mother tongue , but a lot of seniors start to forget the languages they started to learn later on.
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  729. Some don't have anything to go back to: house destroyed; husband killed...
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  730. What does this mean?
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  731. How could you like the rotten decadent western mustard flavour?! Aren't there no patriotic crisps in Z-shape available?!?
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  732.  @MrSnakesti  well, there is still a difference: I've already seen Solowjow screaming his propaganda about rotten decadent westerners f*cking turtles on Russian tv. Yet I haven't seen western tv telling stories about Ukranian Babies flavored chips.
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  733.  @user-vp4kx1qi6t  so typical of RuZZian propaganda: it is the fault of the victims who have been attacked - how cynical and emphatyless.
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  734.  @vladislove1337  oh, you can talk to the undead! Are you a medium or psycic? If you have the chance, please send the numbers of tomorow's Europe lottery. I promise, I will donate half the winnigs to projects that help people in Ukraine suffering from the Ruzzian war.
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  735. Do the bathroom have running water? What do you do with it in winter? Do you have to heat the outside bathroom to keep it frost free?
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  736. @Birgit, die Schokoladen-Puddingsuppe mit den Eiweiß-Klößchen ist auch die Variante, die ich von meiner Oma kenne. @Petra, heiße Schokolade in einer Tasse ist keine warme Schokoladen-(Pudding)Suppe, die man vom tiefen Teller mit dem Löffel ist: das sind zwei verschiedene Sachen.
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  737. Well observed.
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  738.  @MrSkoresh  you didn't get his point. It was not about the interior and the selection of the supermarket but about how it is filmed. If you see how anxious people in street interviews react in Russia just concerned not to say anything wrong in front of a camera then you get an idea.
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  739.  @MrSkoresh  the channel 1420 is only one example of interviews of ordinary Russians on the street: https://youtube.com/@1420channel
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  740.  @MrSkoresh  the channel 1420 (also in comparison to street interviews in Ukraine) it gives the impression: - that the majority don't even want to answer at all - some people formulate their answers in complicated manner because they are afraid saying something wrong - people are aware that run in trouble or of the jail sentence critiques recieved recently - often they answer they would be "apolitical" Many analysts see these apolitical people as the base of Putlers power and the luck of political progress in Russia.
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  741. is there actually a reason why American (gas) stoves never line up with the counter tops and door fronts of the cupboards?
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  742. I'm pretty sure that Coca Cola changed the recipe over the decades and there are coca leaves in it. Beside it is the easiest to import flavour concentrate and just add Polish water to and fill it in bottles in Poland.
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  743. where did you get this stuff from? Russian TV?
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  744. Germany did not expell people from that region... some difference.
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  745.  @fifthpint4571  surprised about what?
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  746. what was traditionally and culturally Polish about it?
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  747.  @jameskennedy6207  I don't see anything of bouncing on any maps. There is culturally anything Polish in Kaliningrad as there was hardly anything in Königsberg. I don't even get the connection to Putin's logic.
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  748. great and interesting video. I'm baffled about the number of dislikes.
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  749. so, why not keeping tanks, grenades and soldiers inside Russia then?
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  750. 😅🤣😅
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  751.  @iri8973  there were no nazis in 1867.
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  752.  @iri8973  DNA tests are entertaining guesses for the amusements of North Americans. In Central Europe nobody cares and they often make not much sense, since they hardly can distinguish between German, Dutch, Belgian, Luxembourgian, Northern French, Swiss and Austrian. Decedents of people migrated from Königsberg in the 1800's are also not very likely to find Russian traces, since the area was occupied in 1945 by the Soviet Union and populated with Russians starting from 1946. Did you watch the video?
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  753.  @iri8973  "free all territories by giving them independence and paid their debts" - I don't know what this is supposed to mean. Russia as a part of Soviet Union took reparations from Germany after the war, but gave little to countries like Poland or Czeckoslovakia.
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  754.  @iri8973  sure, there are all kind of people living in North America today... but what has this to do with topic of the video: Kaliningrad?
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  755.  @iri8973  who is "them"? Reparations means that the Soviet Union took art works, libraries, entire factories and railroad tracks from Germany to Russia. Plus they kept prisoners of war up to 10 years in Russia and let them work there.
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  756. yeah right, it is Germany fault!!111!!11 Because Germany is threatening Ukraine and pull tanks together at the border. Yeah, Eastern Europe is srewed up again because Merkel sneezed!!!11!
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  757. Why should fellow western citizens feel like idiots? They feel rather sorry for the people in Ukraine who are the victims and really suffering under the agression of the RuZzian admistration ... and they couldn't care less about what name the coke has, Russians are so eager to drink.
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  758.  @ewab1290  I'm pretty sure you are mixing things up. Before the Teutonic knights came to this region rebellious pagan Balitic Prussians lived there - not loyal to any king. Königsberg is the starting point of the Duchy of Prussia. There was another, neighboring area called Royal Prussia which was an automnous province under the Polish crown. Do not confuse the Duchy of Prussia with Royal Prussia. The Königsberg was never part of the HRE, the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation. But it was later part of the German Empire and German Republic. Do not confuse the HRE with the German Empire.
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  759.  @ewab1290  sorry, I do believe that you mix up a lot of stuff up. East Prussia was a Duchy not a Kingdom. The Kingdom of Prussia was later created in 17o1 when it was combined with Brandenburg. You would not see much of Marienburg or Malbork castle in it's shape of today when the Germam emperors didn't order a massive reconstruction to the medieval state. That was only possible because ithe building complex was some 150 years in their hands. Yes, the castle was destroyed in the WW2, but after 1945 the Polish restaurators follow the work the Germans began decades ago. You should visit this place and learn about the huge reconstruction worl.
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  760.  @ewab1290  this was all old history in the 1400's. In the late 1700's when it became part of the Prussian state it was in a very transformed shape. It took lots of effort by the German historians and architects to reconstruct it to the medieval shape. Often there was little historic substance left - so they copied details from other German castles. By the time of emperor Wilhelm II the reconstruction surely got some political connotation as marking his empire in the East - the same way he reconstructed Hohkönigsburg in Alsace in the West. BTW, it is fairly unusual that the UNESCO provides financial founds.
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  761.  @ewab1290  sorry, ha, ha, ha ... the same way I live with Teutonic Knights as neighbors in the apartment downstair and celebrate the Emperor's birthday - the same way you still live under the Polish king who bought the castle at some point. BTW, after WW1 and before WW2 town and castle Marienburg belonged to Westprussian district of the Province of East Prussia within Germany. I don't know where you get this stories from?! Is this a public narrative they tell in Poland? How do you want to value the site and identify with it, when you don't really aknowlegde it's history.
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  762.  @ewab1290  yes, Polish administration and craftsmen spend a lot of effort to rebuild historic sites and city centres. It would be very likely that they work together with German experts, since the restauration work prior to the wars was ordered from Berlin and there would be documentations in this regards. If you like it or not, Köningsberg was founded in the 1200's by German speaking merchants and therefore had German speaking history of about 700 years. Before that there was little what can be called a city. And the Russian City of Kaliningrad know only exist about 75 years. That is roughly one tenth of the times. BTW, the reconstruction of Königsberg cathedral was largely financed by German sources.
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  763.  @ewab1290  you confuse me: there is no castle in Kaliningrad - there used to be one in Königsberg. But the castle were not in possession of a Polish king ... or are you talking about Marienburg again? BTW, did watch the historic part of the video at all?
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  764.  @ewab1290  The remains of the damaged castle in Kaliningrad were blown up by the Soviets and on the ground a now empty concrete high rise structure was errected. Just watch the video for this! Do you actually believe every anti-German scare story they tell in Poland? I'm convinced that they will tell children not play to far from home otherwise the German will get them!! Honestly, what kind of story is the motorway in exchage of former land? What rewriting of history? If so, you would find this rather in Poland with twisting historical fact, knocking off historical inscriptions or with only rebuilding sites which have a "Polish" connection. BTW, in 1993 the Federal Republic of Germany acknowledged the Polish Western border. The adjacent East German GDR already did this in 1950!
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  765. I do believe the area of Bergen county was once a place where a lot of people from East German regions migrated to, because they had a strong tradition of building music instruments and those craftmen were highly appriciated in the US in a certain time period.
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  766. Human manure can transfer diseases - therefore if uses as fertiliser you should wait a couple of years to produce food on it.
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  767. What has Auchan to do with Russian troops killing people in Ukraine?
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  768. ... or to Albania !1!1!!
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  769. The high morals don't help Russian women much. Russia has very high rates of domestic violence and enormous numbers of women killed by their husbands/partners every year.
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  770.  @ziggy8244  ... and easier to beat up with almost no legal consequences in Russia.
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  771. righful Neanderthalian soil!!!111!
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  772. There is nothing glorious about the actions of the Ruzzian state in the last years.
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  773. Can you easily travel to Kaliningrad as EU citizen? With a day-visa?
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  774. That makes no sense, since the whole of Poland was under Soviet influence - so that would be a reason for no differences at all.
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  775. if they are one thing, then it would be US American. If nitpicking then correctly! ;-)
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  776. The video author doesn't necessarily speaks American English when he is from the Netherlands.
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  777. What a BS! The lady currently in the UK was not even born in WW2 and she didn't say anything about what political ideas she supported. Generalizing, judging and devaluating people just by their origin is exactly what the fascists did. Your comment says more about your mindset and the one of the lady.
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  778. I have two things to point out: Leipzig was very clever in marketing and lobbying for itself in a greater region. As someone from former East Germany this is quite noticable how it loobying as the center of the southern part of East Germany. It also managed to re-incorporate some suburban sprawl back into the actual entity - and was also clever (along with Dresden) in marketing this as "growth" and "booming". Voigt as in Helene-Voigt-Park is pronounced with an "F" in the beginning followed by a long "o". The "i" is only there to indicate this long vowel (here "o"). Both features you will find often in German and you will encounter them again: that the V is pronounced as F and that the "i" (or sometimes "e") just indicates vowel stress of the vowel before. The latter is an outdated form of spelling, nowadays usually indicated by an "h" after the vowel (sometimes a double vowel). But in family names or town names this ols spelling got preserved: the commities of Grevenbroich or Itzenoe are just pronounced with a long O.
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  779. "we"? ... anyhow, there is plenty of burnt ground and bombed rubble in Ukraine, where normal people wonder what Ruzzia wants to do with devastated strip of land. Is it only because of the oil, gas and coal fields beneath this burnt ground and adjacent sea area ?
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  780.  @_Catskull_  liberated from what? From human inhabitants? Just consider: you can not rebuilt dead people, you can not rebuilt destroyed lifes and family, you can not rebuilt personal belongings and community or historic sites. you can copy buildings. How arrogant and without emphaty can someone be sitting on his couch, playing computer games and saying: I don't care about people and some houses will be rebuilt. Maybe you should be sitting in a basement in Mariupol without your fast food and drinking water ... then we will see who's crying.
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  781.  @chalkchalkson5639  so why do you live in Brunswick if you fancy big cities?
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  782.  @aqvamarek5316  drinking water for Magdeburg is gained from ground water in the Colbitz Letzlingen heath north of the city. In order to obtain the ground water levels river water is taken from the Ohre river and seeped there. The Ohre river is a tributary river of the Elbe river - harvesting water there does have an effect consequently on the Elbe river, too. This ground water supply from the heath for Magdeburg startet in the 1960's. Before that water came directly from the Elbe river - though it was taken from the East banks of the river, since the highly polutated tributary rivers enter from the West and the river water does not completly mix for a long distance. Magdeburg never, at no time had 380 k inhabitants. The demographic peak was at 330 k in 1939.
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  783. you didn't get the topic of the video, did you?!
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  784.  Jose Martinez DeJesus  he was mad and insane. He went even so far to say when the German folk is unable to win his big war then it should perish.
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  785.  @alanbrowne2529  why should he or she?
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  786.  @tzatzikiv812  das ist ungewöhnlich, weil die Menschen auf Sylt meist fast akzentfreies Hochdeutsch sprechen. Einige, sehr wenige Einheimische sprechen Friesisch, was aber als eigene Sprache abgesehen wird. Übrigens: *als ich wohnte... *das war für mich das Gleiche = it was the same for me vs. das war mir gleich = I didn't care
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  787.  @ingridreim3205  Sylt ist aber ein Sonderproblem, da viele einheimische Insulaner, die vieleicht noch Friesisch sprechen könnten, sich die Insel nicht mehr leisten können und zunehmend aufs Festland umziehen. Viele der Gebäude auf der Insel werden auch gar nicht kontinuierlich bewohnt, so dass es immer weniger soziale Infrastruktur gibt. "Buten un binnen" ist die tägliche Sendung mit Regionalnachrichten vom Sender Radio Bremen - dort wird ausschließlich Standarddeutsch gesprochen, nur der Sendungstitel ist wie das plattdeutsche Stadtmotto von Bremen.
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  788.  @GerhardOstermann-ud6rr  ich kann nicht mehr nachvollziehen, zu welchem Kommentar du antwortest.
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  789.  @binxbolling  what is "that"?
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  790. Prussia and therefore the region of East Prussia deliberatly joined the North German Conferderation in 1867 and the German Empire in 1871. There was no annexation.
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  791.  @nekomatic  well, it's Europe and borders were changing in the last 1200 years. Nevertheless the city has been called Kaliningrad only since 1946 - never before. Before that the city was always called Königsberg ... and before that there was no city, only a small settlement /fortress. Krolewiec must be an exonym, since I could not find a use within the city, which only had a small Polish speaking population at any given time and apperently has currently almost none.
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  792. I wonder, why you have to fly via Moscow, when you travel from Minesota to Spassk. It feels to me that Spassk is closer to the American Westcoast than Moscow.
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  793.  @crisliv528  yeah right - but why not transfer in Tokio and Seoul? Or is it cheaper to travel long distance within Russia?
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  794. What does the term "Germanic Europe" mean? I'm wondering since there is no term like this in German.
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  795. @treasey8655  Tomas' comment sounded as if he would to describe something that does not include Britian or Irland.
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  796. Try to find a flat or a job as an north Caucasian in Moscow and you will know how equal and happy life is.
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  797. Ein Kumpel von mir hatte als Handwerker im Park Avenue Tower zu tun und hat die Schwankungen im Turm als sehr ungewohnt und unangenehm beschrieben. Gut, vielleicht gewöhnt man sich im Laufe der Zeit daran. Viele der Apartments dieser Super Tall Tower werden aber eh nicht durchgängig bewohnt.
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  798. So ein Schmarren.
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  799. His pension is probably twice what he can earn with a job in Siberia.
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  800. I haven't shampoo-ed my hair in over 10 years, just water ... and don't miss anything. I have a regular office job which not physically demanding - therefore I only shower every other day at best. And noboby ever broad it to my attention that this was not o.k.
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  801. I can't judge his German as in whole sentences or in a conversation, but is pronucation seems flawless - considering he is an English native speaker.
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  802. I I don't get the admire for Pan-Slavism which is only in favor of Russia, but neglect Ukraine ... or maybe Croatia.
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  803. when talking yourself into "feeling great" is the only thing what is left...
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  804.  @Biboran.  who is brought terror zu Butcha, Mariupole or Bakhmut? Prise of a coke in Russia - 1 $ . Surviving a Russian airstrike in Ukraine - priceless.
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  805. at what point in history it was officially called "Królewiec"? And was is Polish about Kaliningrad?
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  806. Though German evolved further from old Saxon and incorpareted words based on French, Latin, Greek or Italian ... sometimes not the same ... and not so many.
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  807.  @voyageur8208  "Germany or France were humilitating Poland in last ten years because Poland " - I wonder if you've red Polish newspaper and listened to Polish politians in the last 10 years and who humilitated? Well because of history lessons and constitutional restrains it is not easy for Germany to export wappons to countries with an active war.
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  808. They are not.
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  809. even more nonsense and conspiracy theory.
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  810.  @realeyesrealizereallies6828  actually Germany just finally did now what Nato and the US demanding from it for years.
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  811. really, where did you see a Russophobic comment here? No liking Putin or bombs against civilians is not an expression of Russophobie.
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  812.  @kidnamedpenis  I don't get the comment.
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  813. Though the Torun of today is part of Poland, the medieval city Thorn Max is refering to was part of Prussia and the state of the Teutonic Order. It was a wealthy hanseatic city and apparently the oldest in Prussia. In end of the Middle Ages this part of Prussia came under the rule of the Polish kings (but not part of Poland as they retained some sort of autonomy). If and when it became part of Poland I might not say, since from 18th to the 20th century it was part of Prussia again. It was not until the aftermath of WWI when it became part of the 2nd Polish Repuplic in 1920.
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  814. How often this one sentence is quoted? How often that nazi narrativ is used, when Ruzzia also have these ultra-nationalist and criminal... just look at these Wagner guys? How often the death of civilians in the Donbas since 2014 is overstretched when the dead civilians just make 3% compared to dead of Ruzzian militia and rebels.
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  815. This comment makes no sense or the translation tool is off.
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  816. No, thanks! The rest of the world rather don't want such a "special" "rescue" by RuZzia like it is done right now in Ukraine!
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  817. It was never Poland even there might be an affiliation with the Polsh king at one point. Queen Elisabeth might have been on the coins in Canada - that doesn't make Canada part of England.
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  818. Actually this is a thing, animal trainers at circus companies (especially for carnivores) use German for their commands - while other specific termes are often in French in a circus company. I don't know, whether it is out of tradition or if some animals better react to German.
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  819. Mexicans are Americans, since they live on the American continent.
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  820. who is the little nazi? Putler?!
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  821.  @НоутбукИисуса  do you know me? I guess, you draw conclusions based on yourself...
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  822. in what 30s? Yeesh - not only stupid comparison but then also with wrong numbers...
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  823. So 84 millions can foresee the future?! I wonder, how the national lottery still works?!
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  824.  @quincyjones5676  I totally agree - I also have no idea what your comment has to do with anything.
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  825. stepping into dog poo is missing.
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  826. very strange pronunciation of Fugger and Fuggerei in the video by German standards: its rather like Foogger or Fooggerai with clearly a double-G.
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  827. are you a poor,envious German?
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  828. 🤣😂🤣
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  829.  @daniel.s8126  I wounder where this ominous "west" starts and where it ends? In Georgia? Especially if you are Russian, you grew up with this conditions and you've learned how to phrase in a message, that it can be red between the ines and not offend officials.
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  830.  @krzysztofd9164  maybe not a celebration but a denial of existence.
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  831.  @nonperson22  getting one third of the country for free sounds pretty much like reparation to me.
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  832.  @nonperson22  Sounds to me like you have zero knowledge on the subject, so you shouldn't say anything otherwise you look like an idiot. Poland gain lot of territory from Germany. If the territory is still smaller than before, maybe you should ask for compansation from Russia, Belarus or Ukraine. Did you understand or should I write for you again? If Poland is SMALLER you ask the wrong country!
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  833.  @nonperson22  what you want now: the right to start a war? You can not bring people back to life who died - for no money of the world! Their lifes were priceless. Why did Poland not ask for money to really help them who survived and suffered? Now when everyone is dead, you want to make a profit on those suffering and the lost of others?? If you don't like the northern and western parts of Poland, just give them back. Maybe you make a deal and some money out of it.
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  834.  @andrzejrozmus3919  so Germany should claim compansation from Russia for the lost territory and hand the money to Poland after recieving it?!? Is this the plan?
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  835.  @andrzejrozmus3919  you fotgot something important: they paid it also to the Soviet Union, which claimed to redistribute the reparations in there power phare such as Poland.
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  836.  @andrzejrozmus3919  so if the Soviets also invated and destroyed, how much reparations did they pay?
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  837.  @andrzejrozmus3919  who wants to be a European leader - Russia? They are rather aiming for a global power.
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  838.  @andrzejrozmus3919  basically all the talk about reparations started when there were Polish elections ahead and the PiS party already learn how to play the German card to their advantage.
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  839.  @andrzejrozmus3919  some compensation or help credits to expelled people from today's Western and Northern territories of Poland were only paid to those ended up in West Germany. To it's proximity East Germany received relativly more refugees which didn't receive anything.
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  840.  @andrzejrozmus3919  the union of expellees exist for ages with all kinds of demands which are not really taken seriously in the German public. Reacting to these demands suddenly after 60 or 70 years doesn't sound very plausible. It could rather be that with Poland joining the EU the legal situation changed. Before that it was illegal for German citizens to purchase property in Poland. So even if people wanted to buy back their grandparents home they were not legally allowed to.
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  841.  @andrzejrozmus3919  I don't see or know Germans who declared leadership. It rather feels like the opposite ... and that other states like the US demand that Gernany should take on more leadership.
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  842.  @andrzejrozmus3919  sorry, the war of Russia attacking Ukraine is by far the slightest fault of Germany - Germany is not the reason for this. Maybe Germany did mistakes in it own energy supply. But by no means it caused the bombing of Ukrainian towns and villages.
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  843.  @andrzejrozmus3919  I highly doubt, stolen art is deliberately auctioned in Germany today. That would be illegal. There was even a federal adency established to trace stolen art and to find out about the rightful owner. Tons of art, historic documents and books are taken to Russia and stored in archives in Moscow, St Petersburg and elswhere. The Russians did not publish what is all there, little they want to return it. it annot be ruled out that among those art also art exists which was stolen by the nazis before.
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  844.  @andrzejrozmus3919  well, now Germany recieves / imports no Russian Gas at all. Would they have done this already for years, would they also be responsible in your logic. coming back to video - since Poland is the new Europaen powerhouse - what has it done to prevent the conflict??
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  845. If it get's too cold and rainy in Hungary / Budapest in winter time go to a thermal bath for an afternoon.
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  846. It is most likely a rumour. But I didn't get who should have "annexed" the territory after Napoleonic wars?!?
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  847.  @MichaEl-rh1kv  the kingdom of Prussia is called Prussia because the Duke of Brandenburg, whose possession Königsberg was, was crowned King in Prussia in this place in 1701. Therefore Königsberg was an integral part of this kingdom right from the beginning and NOT annexed later on.
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  848.  @MichaEl-rh1kv  before 1871 there was no official Germany. But before the Napoleonic wars there was the Holy Roman Empire. Obviously you mix both up. Most of Brandenburg- Prussia was within the HRE, though the region around Königsberg called East Prussia was not. Prussia was the key figure in the process of German Unification of 1871.
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  849.  @MichaEl-rh1kv  I don't get your point. Regnum Teutonicum is just a term sum up the German speaking parts of the HRE e.g. in contrast to the Italian speaking parts. There is a difference between a geographical term Prussia (today a region in Russia and Poland) and a political term as the state or kingdom of Prussia. Brandenburg-Prussia had significant parts within the HRE, for example the Magdeburg district which is closely connected to Otto I the emperor of the HRE.
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  850.  @MichaEl-rh1kv  I know most of these facts. Your comments are very detailed, though it is sometimes hard to follow what your point is. Most of the German speaking places became part of a unified state of Germany in 1871, because that was the year when the German empire was constituted. It might be that the idea of a "Land of the Germans" or a "German fatherland" existed, but not in a unified state in the modern sense. Once again you mix up the geographical region of Prussia ( Kaliningrad nowadays) with the political entity Prussia which helt territories all over Northern Germany. The political structure Brandenburg-Prussia existed from 1701. Later Brandenburg became just a province within the Prussian state.
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  851.  @MichaEl-rh1kv  I didn't say anything how the German Empire came about in 1871 or under which circumstances. There was a longing for overcoming the hundreds of small states, kingdoms, dukedoms etc. and for a united Germany starting with the early 1800's. If a united Germany existed as you claim the whole movement would have been necessary. Your alternative view on the the history of Brandenburg-Prussia is not very common among historians e.g. in Brandenburg and when they create exhibitions about the period. Coming back to the topic: the former Prussian province of East Prussia around Königsberg was not less or more a part of Germany before the war than any other other Prussian province. All of the German inhabitants (if not fled before) were expelled after the war. The Kaliningrad region the became a part of Russia after the war with mainly Russians living there. Besides this two countries: Russia and Germany ties to other countries like Lithuania or Poland are rather far fetched or constructed. If there was an agreement with a Polish king some 500 years ago doesn't play much of a role. Likewise if 500 years ago some villagers spoke a languages with had similarities to Lithuanian for some linguist - but probably was not even mutual intelligible, is interesting but nothing more. Those people were assimilated in the German population and like them their ancestors now live in Berlin or Hamburg but in Kaliningrad anymore.
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  852. Baltic Old Prussians were Baltic Old Prussians and not Lithuanian and Latvian - plus they don't exist anymore. I really wonder, who cares in Kaliningrad what was before 1250 - at a time when not even an urban city existed?!
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  853.  @dearbarbarians1283  you wrote something about Lithuanian or Latvian - not me. Your view about the land belonging to the Balts is rather modern. From a historic perspective like the ones of the Polish rulers, this land belonged to anyone - therefore they called for the Teutonic Knights to adminstrate it for them.
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  854. Who is "us"?
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  855. Christoph Waltz is a native German speaker, sometimes his Austrian accent is noticeable. Kerry Washington speaks perfect German in scenes, though it is a little bit too perfect for the role, where she plays someone who just learn German additionally.
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  856. I add a few parsnips to the potatoes which gives the mash a more delicated flavour.
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  857. what a nonsense. I live in Germany and there is no Germanistan to be seen.
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  858.  @an1ma_an1mus  if you are not able to speak in an civilised manner , I see no benefit in discussing with you. You can use your expression in your Siberian home but not in public here. You're such stereotypical loud Russian, who doesn't realise that smaller nations feel pushed aside by this aggressive behaviour. BTW, you did not even get the point: it doesn't matter which language Katharine spoke or which crown she wore, she is long dead and her empire is gone as well. What matters are the people who live today in Odesa und who want to live there in peace. If you want to deal with fascists and criminals look inside Russia first than somewhere else.
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  859.  @malcaniscsm5184  Exactly!
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  860.  @proego7  I don't really get the connection between Ukraine and Mexiko. Did the US annexed parts of Mexiko with the excuse they want to fight fascists? Or that Acapulco was founded by an US American empress? Or Mexico doesn't really exist, it was always the USA? Or Mexico needs to be attacked, since Alaska joint a defense organisation with Russia.
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  861.  @Каракесек  WHAT should I care for?
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  862.  @Каракесек  can you explain what is ALL?
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  863.  @Jusedss  this "Russian" mental stage stuff just sounds really scary, ...as if the people of the Europe just need to "freed" from their identity, countries and goverments, probably also from their properties and houses by bombing to feel enlightened as "a Russian". Sound really worse as some Soviet era phrases.
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  864.  @МихаилУстинский  that seems totally unlogical that todays Ukraine is not the successor of the immediate predecessor on this territory before: the Ukrainian SSR and that for over 70 years - but insteadt the successor of some political entity which lasted only a few months over 100 years ago. You have to explain your thoughts behind it - otherwise none of the readers will understand your comment.
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  865. ​ @ИзабеллаГаппоева  apparently, the famous opera house is designed by Fellner & Helmer architects from Vienna; the iconic Potemkin Stairs by by Italian architect Francesco Boffo; the Philharmonic Theater by Swiss born Architect Bernardazzi - well the seems very clear that Odesa is an Alpine-Italian city!!1!!!11🤣
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  866.  @НинаКвят  Hello Idiot, nice to meet you! Greetings back to Odesa!
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  867.  @vera.1897  yes, all !!111!!- even the trees, the birds, the rain and the sun, the poop in the toilet - everything is Russian!! Are you also Ruzzian? ...this comment was sarcastic, but this ignorant attitute with saying "all" just comes accross a arrogant sentences like : "Ukrainians are just dumb farmers - they don't know how to built and libve in a city - they don't deserve to live there" I really thought this ethnic arrogance we left behind in the last century.
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  868.  @АлексейЛев-о6о  shall we change the comments in the thread to Ukrainian?
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  869. ​​ @slavikb.4580  Listen pal, I'm not your freak. You should watch your Ukrainian. I don't speak Ukrainian nor do I live there. Though I met people who fled Russian bombings. It feels sick that in this war victims and perpetrators are often interchanged ... and people who speak up against the aggressive imperialistic Ruzzian behavior by attacking and killing people in Ukraine are suddenly the reason that the war continues... how confused by propaganda must someone be to write such stuff.
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  870. ​ @iraqian-odessit  I lost the reference what to start?!
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  871. ​ @vitalyanovitalyano1881  so if I understand your argument correctly: "Russians are superior and the only one capable of building communication and industry, Ukrainians are just inferior farmers." It is interesting, how much Putler's propaganda sounds similar to the little Austrian 80 years ago and how many Russians embrace this pseudo-fascism - a thing they allegedly eager to fight in Ukraine, but cultivate themselves at home.
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  872. @Ceroid NOT A SINGLE Ukrainian has invaded the Russian Federation. What you just did is victim- perpetrator - reverse. Actually, with the Kiyv Rus having the longest tradition the Ukrainians could argue that half of Russia is yours, but they don't. We have the 21st century and people want to live in peace - and Germany doesn't invade the Netherlands, claiming these are the same people. France does not invade Belgium or Austria tries to capture South Tyrol from Italy. No Dane wants to conquer Southern Sweden. All of these could argue the same stuff you just did about Ukraine. But they don't. Because they DON'T perceive themselves as a an imperialistic, aggressive, superior country with an leader who is eager to play world power again.
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  873.  @galiamarkova3775  really "Russia"? ... or rather death and devastation?!
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  874. ​ @АлександраАлександрова-р4ш ​ "Odesa WAS founded by Russians ..." Yes, WAS! But I did ask: what IS Russian about Odesa now? There is a difference between WAS and IS. Or is there no distinction, because only WAS exists in the Russian language - but no IS.
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  875.  @Funkbass1986  Well, now the US should bomb Mexico City just because you talked about it!!1!1! Exactly that would be the analogy to what Ruzzia did and still does. What did Putler achive with aggressive politics aganinst and alleged Nato expansion?? Finland joined Nato, Sweden is planning it, Nato countries support Ukraine, the Baltic states concentrate troops and equipment at the border, Poland and Germany increase their military budget. If there was a Russian policy trying to subpress expantion it went totally wrong to the opposite.
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  876.  @victoriia1082  almost Russian? Almost Russian rubble like Mariupol?! Well, that would mean not really places where someone could stay!👎🚫💥
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  877. ​ @semyon_naimushin  what I've seen from Russian tv was insane, ridiculous propaganda... that it was even hard to believe that people take it as the truth.
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  878.  @selenga1  I'm a bit lost in translation, what you mean in your comments. If you have detailed information about Odesa - please share! That is the meaning of this dialogue: me asking a question + someone else can answer it and enlighten everyone since this thread is public. I don't speak Ukrainan nor do I care if you are imported or not.
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  879.  @Lana.ru.  there was a peace treaty over Königsberg?? - I wonder, who made this treaty with who? One think is for sure, nobody did asked the local population before they were expelled.
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  880.  @selenga1  do you really think the US cares about Mexico and if the Mexican goverment or police kills people in Mexico? This is everyday life there. Do you really think the US would invade for this reason. Do you really think Putler cares about who said what to woman with buggy in which language? This were just welcomed insidences for his geopolitical and imperialistic ambition. How little he cares about Russian lifes you can see in the 200,000 dead young Russian men now.
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  881.  @Lana.ru.  nobody aked the people of Königsberg! Russia took land, art, every third factory, whole train tracks, agricultural good as repearations ... approx. worth 100 billion marks. They keep German soldiers in Gulag like camps up to 10 years. They even claimed it as reparations for other east block countries but nevrer gave a penny e.g. to Poland. But what has it to do with topic? Is Russia willing to pay reparations for all the things they destroyed in Ukrain?!
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  882.  @____2279  the translation tool has difficulties with your comments: they sound poetic but hard to understand ... and seemed to be the same whataboutism propaganda like "lets destroy entire towns and kill everyone on the streets because Solowjow said that someone started something and that they eat coccaine for breakfast. well, you really wonder, when Ukrainian can't effort to repair their street how can they eat coccaine all day?? And often I also wonder, if Ruzzians reflect at all, what propaganda they repeating?
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  883. ​​ @____2279  you? Me? Do the magic word exist in Russian?!
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  884. ​ @commissioner5990  no thanks. Though not sure what you are exactly offering here and if it is according to youth protection guidelines...
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  885. ​ @АленаЧеховских-ж8м  I don't get what you are replying to? What is the connection between Kosovo and Odesa?
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  886. ​ @АленаЧеховских-ж8м  maybe the problems with Crimea is not the autonomy or the desire for it, but rather the annexation by Russia. Kosovo wasn't annex by Albania to draw a parallel.
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  887. ​ @АленаЧеховских-ж8м  well, internationally it is regarded as an Annexation by Russia. It is not up to me to blame here anyone, since Russia didn't kill many people or bombed entire cities to rubble for achieving this land gain. There are clear geopolitical intrests for Putler to possess Crimea: through it he secures a big chunk of Black Sea waters with potential gas and oil field and other strategic interests.
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  888.  @RussianHomesteadGirl-kz6df  How little Pitler care for his people you see by the 200,000 young Russian men who are already dead as cannon fodder for his weird war plans. There is so much nonsense in your comment that it is not worth going in detail about it. I find it rather interesting were do you get this "alternative" narrative or "alternative" facts from? Do they tell this on Russian state TV? Is it from social media like VK, Telegram or TikTok? Or are these hear-say-stories from friends? I've red the fairly same wording a couple of time - can you earn a couple of bucks when you create an Youtube account and copy this here?
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  889.  @qwerty123484  is it true that people like Putin like to own Crimea because then the they could draw a historical line from the ancient civilisation of the Greek to modern Russia?
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  890.  @kombai214  who is he? ... and did I say that it wouldn't be someone's choice to live??
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  891.  @ghgggx  Putin is moving his position? - sounds to good to be true.
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  892.  @ghgggx  who is you?
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  893.  @ghgggx  interesting concept of you parallel universe. Why not just deleting your avatar with the face of aggression?! What made you create this just two months ago? Do people react disturbed or angry when you troll them with this name and face?
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  894.  @christiano.4732  it is very large; but if it is great - I have doubts.
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  895.  @ДушанД  burning a single person is a criminal act and should be toughly prosecuted - but not be used as an excuse to start a war in which hundreds of thousands suffer!
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  896.  @ДушанД  how about providing any proof or source for this accusation?!?
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  897. ​ @МихаилМихайлович-б5д  when I read "the west" and "donkey" I loose the vigor to get engage in a detailed conversation - it just seems like another onedimentional propaganda. Are there actually many left in Mariupol? Have you been there at all? Even recently??
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  898. ​ @МихаилМихайлович-б5д so you've obviously never been to Mariupol!?! Who is the "West"? And why would that person urge Ukraine to join Nato? The most obvious think to stop the war would be if Russia would stop invading, attacking and bombing! Don't do this perfidious reverse game disguise who is the aggressor. How misanthropic must some one be to use rebuilding work as an excuse... how do you rebuild dead people? How do you rebuild a lost family member? How do you rebuild destroyed vistas? How do you rebuild destroyed personal belongings?
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  899.  @jaypeedesuyo662  welcome Khokol bot! Are you already busy working today?
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  900. ​ @aleksandra82191 I don't get your point - where is the connection between Odesa and the Americas?
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  901. ​ @methemanization ... water, air ...🤣😂🤣 Okay... so it lacks real arguments Btw, Washington is not an external territory for the US.
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  902. ​ @sniperarena1 who is "we"?
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  903.  @ananke2104  the name of who? Of the imperialistic aggressor?!
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  904.  @sitraahra4594  following this logic, do you think, while Vienna is located in Austria and Zürich in Switzerland they should be considered along with Luxembourg "German cities"?
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  905.  @sitraahra4594  well, I would call Vienna a German speaking city. Likewise Paris, Geneva, Brussells or Montreal are French speaking cities ... and still no French speaking leader feels the need to bomb St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral in Brussels. Definitly, there is something rotten in the state of Putler.
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  906.  @ananke2104  some call him an "special operation" criminal ... and this in the whole world. I can't wait how he is called in The Hague.
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  907.  @Брат2-ю7у  are you okay? Do you need help? Btw, what fatherland are you actually talking about?
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  908. So it is a building tradition - amoung other things of being traditional. But it could it be also a matter of property rights? Maybe in the East the people traditionally owned their house and therefore there outside side toilet. In the western and northern parts where the German population was expelled the state state became the owner of the properties the Germans left behind. So a building adminstration might have taken care whether a toilet was renovated inside or not. Just an educated guess...
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  909. ​ @kaiznpl Germans live in Pomerania, Silesia, East Brandenburg or East Prussia for 7 centuries. Who are you to judge they shouldn't live there? And why should someone pay reparation today? There is no damage currently done to people in Poland. And the new Poland after 1945 recieved one third of its territory from German provinces plus the properties of 8 million Germans the new Polish adminstration expelled from these territories.
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  910. Are you a Millennial?
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  911. Unlike in besieged villages in Ukraine.
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  912.  @КошачийВайб  march 2022 - that sounds more like panic buying than any connection to sanction. Well, apparently first aid material amoung Russian troops is not well orginased and mobilised soldiers are advice to take some feminine hygiene products with them when they are going to be cannon fodder in Ukraine. It could help with injuries and stop bleeding.
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  913. ​ @RealReporter  those corporations just want set publicly a sign that they don't support the aggression war of the Russian state against Ukraine - nothing more, nothing less. They don't have the ability and resources to control if their products are reimported via third countries or renamed. Propaganda driven, patriotic Russians are free NOT to buy these products from the "rotten West". Or they are free to put little protest notes among the price tags, get denunciated and go 8 years to jail. Maybe the last is a topic worth talking and reporting about when it comes to Russian supermarkets?!
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  914. why would someone American call it Krolewiec? In US Englisch and Puerto Rico Spanish thhis place was called Königsberg.
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  915. Koningsbergen, Königsberg, Kenigsbergo, Karaliaučiaus, Kraljevic, Cyningesbeorg are also proper names!!
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  916. I guess this is the reason your profil has picture of you 😂
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  917. If you are really clever, you would not be cheap labour for Germany, but use the huge German market to your advantage. Don't send people to harvest asparagus or pick apples to Germany, but sell the Germans asparagus and apples produced in Poland. The same with other goods and machinery ... or leave it and tell your young people scare stories from 80 years ago....
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  918. it is excellent indeed.
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  919. There is such a thing as hot chocolate soup. My grandma made for me - I guess as a treat ... but that's the way grandmas are: there you will always get treats.
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  920. nowadays, it is fairly hard for tourists to recognize where and what "East Berlin" is. It is one large city. Though many cool places to visit are in the former Eastern part of Berlin.
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  921. How would the Germans steal Königsberg from Poland? Well, this theory is as plausible as if the Ukrainians would have stolen Kyiv from Russia.
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  922. Trusting an imperialistic aggressor is even worse.
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  923. William, if your moral values are lower, hypocrisy seems not as dramatic. It is logical that "Western countries" stand out.
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  924.  @David-bi6lf  He will be welcomed with flowers and cake in an Ukrainian prison - just as he expected the Ukrainians to welcomed his tanks.
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  925. ghgyhh, the USA is politically a very divided society, even though the views of there politicians are fairly close together from a global point of view. Though I doubt, that US Americans can compare their state of brainwashing with other countries, since they hardly know details about other countries.
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  926.  @zivaradlovacki2666  You are generalizing quite a lot about Ukrainians for someone who is keen to differenciate between Russian soldiers and Russian tourists. I wonder, what Ukrainians actually did in allegdely terrorizing of Russians for 8 years?? They didn't like to be shot by Russian financed separadists? Is this what they did?
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  927.  @zivaradlovacki2666  I wonder, why Russia is not fighting its nazism first? There is plenty to do.
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  928. I wonder what kind of levels would that be?!? I can't think of any ... except it is already the largest country in the world (Therefore no need to grab more land)
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  929.  @rusername 1. if you don't use your brain before writing, just don't reply. 2. Yes, these region also voted overwhelmingly for an independent Ukraine in the 90's.
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  930. What about Stalin who caused the death of millions of Russian and Ukrainians? Should the Russians expell themself???222??
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  931.  @Cp6uH_  so in response to nazis you immitate them?! Doesn't really fit into the picture of the new, better human of communism, does it?
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  932.  @philippmaurer5722  where for example? there is little to be seen in Kaliningrad.
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  933.  @hazmanriess8949  me. too.
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  934.  @MrJarower  to be honest NS2 just became a vehicle for the conflict with Russia. I don't get the fuss about NS2. NS1 already existed ... as Jamal did, and Transgas, Bratswo, Sojus, Yamal II, Turkstream, Drushba etc., too. If you want a to make a difference, you should stop using Russian fossil fuels no matter where they got pumped through.
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  935.  @RebelliousVandal  the was no "state" when those West Baltic people inhabited the region. But this is all spilled milk from 1000 years ago with no relevance for today since those people don't exist anymore - an their descendants are part of the German gene pool and live today in Hamburg or Berlin since they were all expelled from the area.
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  936.  @deepb249  there is no source for this wild theory. Did you come up with it by yourself?
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  937.  @MrJarower  I'm not sticking with anything - I'm just providing a slightly different angle of view. As I said, the standard Germany-Bashing is tiresome.
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  938.  @Hannover_zur_Ehr  I know it was German speaking, so whats your point?
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  939.  @mikepiccolo32  if I would know what you are replying to, I would be quite certain...
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  940.  @kacpersokoowski5208  what is the importance of Teutonic knights massacreing Danzig's inhabitants - because it is mentioned so often by Polish commentators? Is it taught in school as an analogy ...?
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  941.  @mikepiccolo32  really?!
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  942.  Higher Order Reasoning  honestly ... great joke! Did you come up with the story all by yourself?!
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  943.  @georgelitsitis7849  could you please predict the numbers for next friday's Euro lottery. Would be highly appreciated and a part could be donated for Ukrainian refugees.
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  944.  Higher Order Reasoning  "study basic history before writing trash" is a good advice you should really consider applying. Every kid can read Wikipedia - why not you? The name derives from the local tribe of the Old Prussian and is most likely a toponym referring to a body of water.
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  945.  Higher Order Reasoning  no comment section without this AFD-rubbish coming up.
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  946.  Higher Order Reasoning  a German right wing party very active on social media - encouraging their followers to write anti-refugee comments everywhere, no matter if the discussion is about the weather or cooking.
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  947.  @Antares-mo6xh  which church did you visit in Kalingrad? And which of these where baroque? Have you ever been to Kalingrad at all? And from where should those Polish inhabitans came from, when the area was never really populated by Poles. I can't find any of the historic town seals with "Krolewiec". Can you? Please post link then!
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  948.  @Antares-mo6xh  Danzig was heavily destroyed by Allied air raids and yet there were a few building survided. The rest you wrote about Danzig is pretty nonsense. Danzig had a German speaking majority over centuries. And this population made the city grow and thrive as a urban centre, port and place of commerce. The wealthy merchants built pretty facades which reconstructions after the war you can still admire today. They donared for the impressive urban churches. In the 1600's the Danzig agglomeration were the largest German speaking of all, bigger than Cologne, Vienna, Hamburg or Berlin. Regardless if it matters or not: Danzig was 55 years an administrative part of a unified Germany in the roughly 150 years existance of a unified Germany. Please check your facts - othewise it makes your argumention easily vulnerable.
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  949.  @Antares-mo6xh , A unified Germany was established in 1871. From this date on until 1945 Königsberg was a part of Germany - no doubt. After that it belonged to Russian Soviet Republic and was renamed Kalinigrad. In the census of 1925 for the whole of East Prussia 1,8 % stated Masurian and 0,9 % Polish as their mother tongue. Since those Masurian and Polish speakers rather lived in the south of the province, which is not part of the Kaliningrad oblast of today, your number of one third Polish speakers is highly questionable and probably lacking evidence.
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  950.  @Antares-mo6xh  okay, once again: Masuria is a different region from the oblast of Kaliningrad (topic of this video). How can you tell by the family which language people spoke in public or at home?? You can find many Polish sounding names in Germany of people who and also their living relatives never spoke a word Polish. The Polish language was not forbidden in Prussia, though it was excluded as a teaching languages at schools at one point. BTW, a practice which is still in use in France today, where the teaching language of all school has to be the same: French. In the 1925 census not 1,8% were classified as Polish speakers - but 0,9%. 1,8 % were additional Masurian speakers. This point is relevant, since many of those Masurian speakers also migrated to Germany in the decades after the war. Of course, one should always question and double check those numbers - but the difference between 0,9 or 2,7 % and 40% is not very likely to be a result of incorrect counting.
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  951.  @Antares-mo6xh  Since you've never been to Kaliningrad, I doubt you, your family and your classmates are from Kaliningrad. I also doubt that you, your relatives and your classmates went to school in Prussia. That would be pretty long ago. By the way, my grandfather (who died long time ago) is from a place close to the town which is called Brodnica today (which is not in the Kaliningrad region). They had to speak Polish in school but spoke German at home.
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  952.  @Antares-mo6xh  Masuria and Warmia were part of the Prussian province of East Prussia but never part of the area of Kaliningrad oblast as it has been existing since 1945. My grandfather was born in a region called "West Prussia" when it was part of Germany. By the time he finished school his village had became part of Poland due to the change of borders after 1919.
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  953.  @Antares-mo6xh  with the establishment of an united Germany in 1871 the region of West Prussia was part of it, nothing more, nothing less. Everything what happend before ... who occupied what when from who and back again ... is another story ... Have you ever considered that the territories you call "occupied Polish" were actually " occupied Old Prussian" and maybe "occupied Gothic" and in the end maybe "occupied Neanderthal" territories?!?
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  954.  @Antares-mo6xh  interesting... Yet Gniezno is not even in former West Prussia, East Prussia or the Kalingrad oblast. I guess, this comment is about Bismarck and his quarrel with the catholic church?!
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  955.  @Antares-mo6xh  Kaliningrad has never been a German city! Yet Königsberg was. Did the USSR and USA really establish Szcecin as a Polish city (while being West of the Odra river) - or did Poland just use the chance and the gray zone and created facts?
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  956.  @Future183  did someone say otherwise of the German people? I don't know, what is the same, since I don't know what you are referring to...
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  957.  @durshurrikun150  I can not answer your question, because I don't see any connection between California and Königsberg or Kaliningrad, nor do I see a connection between Mexico and fascists. Your comment makes no sense to me ... but feel free to explain it.
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  958.  @sandraleiva1633  did someone mention Austria? And what would Austria have to do with Kaliningrad?
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  959.  @bojanstare8667  I don't understand what your comment means ... just because I don't find a comment were I have numbered names. I'm lost in the over 200 comments. Despite ... yes names tell something about the city's history. Regensburg comes from the Roman name Castra Regina because the Romans had a settlement there when they conquered regions north of the Alps.
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  960.  @TFSIChristmas  I have no clue to which comment you are replying and why exactly that?!
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  961. another nonsense.
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  962. Why not writing a petition to the Kremlin if Putler-Ruzzia could bomb you as well out of their generosity and kindness?!
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  963. I've never seen such a village or farms in Germany or Switzerland: it looks rather like the American Mid West to me.
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  964. he doesn't remember the English name of that institut.
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  965. I have an accent in English for sure. Sometimes people guessed South African. First I was flattered since they are often native English speakers but soon I realized it is probably worse than a German accent.
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  966.  @dagi72164  I had another phenomenon when I spoke German with friends in the US. People next to us would not guess it's German ... if anything then rather Dutch. I believe that there is still the belief that we all speak like nazi dictators out of a Hollywood movie.
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  967.  @dagi72164  I don't mind if people asking. Though Germans are very frequent travellers. I sometimes get the effect once they found out you are German they are loosing interest. If you would answer Liechtenstein I would guess it will continue longer. A few times out of fun (e.g. when I was drunk) I answered some random city in Siberia with the result that the conversation stops immediatly - I guess that comes across awkwardly.
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  968. Heaven forbid!!
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  969.  @lorangajapp8086 , Idoubt it. Btw, have you ever been to Sweden?
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  970. and the 900 years of the Kingdom of Hungary until 1918 never existed .... yeah, right!11!!!!
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  971.  @IamHUNdeX  the population fractions were issue to change during the decades. First Germans were the majority in Brasow , then German declined and Hungarian increased to the point where German, Hungarian and Romanian where fairly one third each, bot today Romanians are by far the majority.
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  972.  @arino253  , und der ist für dich?
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  973. @Onkel Roman, im Norden gab es auch Niederdeutsche Ausgaben der Lutherbibel, so zum Beispiel in Lübeck oder in Magdeburg (dem Ort, an dem Luther zur Schule ging). Dennoch haben sie nie die Verbreitung und Popularität der hochdeutschen Variante erreicht.
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  974.  @siegfriedlechler7412  mia, sind die Baiern unfähig Witze zu erzählen. Halbwissen mag lächerlich sein, aber lange noch nicht lustig.
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  975.  @siegfriedlechler7412  überwas soll man da lachen? Hast du schon was getrunken und kicherst grundlos vor dich hin? Das ist wohl eher was zum belächeln...
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  976.  @siegfriedlechler7412  ja, möchtegern-lustiges Halbwissen - schon klar! Offensichtlich gibt es nicht nur einen sprachlichen Unterschied zwischen Bayern und der Nordhälfte Deutschlands, sondern auch einen im Humor. Wenn ich ehrlich bin, finde ich viele der Spaßsendungen auf dem BR wenig lustig, oft gewollt, flach und altbacken. Offenbar steht man in Bayern auf so etwas, sonst würde es nicht gesendet werden. Große Ausnahme ist die Krimikomödien-Filmreihe um Ermittler Franz Eberhofer. ... und nur weil du norddeutschen Humor nicht verstehst, sind die Menschen dort nicht arm oder humorlos (als kleiner Tipp).
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  977. Poor people in Russia can not effort expensive wines and imported cheese anyhow. They have to stick to local bread and vodka and self grown veggies from the garden.
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  978. I'm curious what Ashton thinks about the Vauban quarter in Freiburg, which was intended as car-free, enviroment-friendly, sustainable, low energy and children-friendly with multi-story building with building owner collectives.
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  979. There are several 'Steuben parades' in the US marking the German-American Friendship Week in the end of September each year - a time when you will a lot of activities celebrating German heritage in the US. The best known parade is the one in Manhattan - usually on 5th Ave . General Steuben became somehow a symbol figure for German-Americans as a famous German-American helping the American troops in the American revolution. My hometown is also his birthplace: unfortunatly there is not much to see of his life (except a statue of him) - the chapel where he was baptised was knocked down already in the late 1800's in favour to build the main post office.
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  980.  @Wild-Siberia  I wonder where Russian and Mexicans are similar? Im which way? They seem so different.
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  981.  @Wild-Siberia  well, I would think, Russians like to nurture their melancholia while Mexicans are very lively and expressive.
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  982.  @Wild-Siberia  not greeting eachother - not even in a small village? That is unusual, since in a small community you often rely on eachother. Here in Germany you also greet people if you meet them in the wild / nature. The perseption is, when you greet each other you will remember that person better - and if something happens, people can easier say where this person was seen the last time etc.
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  983. Maybe you have to be of the smaller pushed subgroup to understand. Looking from sunny top everything seems just fine.
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  984. How little emphaty for people dying and suffering in Ukraine can someone have talking about "peaceful"? How much propaganda must someone watch talking about defense while attacking and invading other countries?!?
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  985.  @Wild-Siberia  I was answering the comment above which was about Russia. The same way the video was about Russia as well as mentioning the war Russia executes in Ukraine. The dying and suffering of the people in Ukraine really troubles me. It also concerns me and I can relate to since there are Ukrainian refugees all around, even in my village. Neither the video was about Iraq nor was it topic in the comment. Using this whataboutism by you just reminds of Russian propaganda. Obviously you are already infected by it. Trying to put numbers of victims in relations to eachother just shows how little empathy you also have for the dying and suffering of the people in Ukraine and on what high horse you seemingly sit.
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  986. In the beginning of the video there is this intro saying that the German state was split in 4 parts ... well, that seem some very simple, condensed statement ... since the pre-war territory of Germany could be found in at least 8 countries after the war from which the german and austrian parts had 8 occupation zones - not even discussing if the occupation zones in Berlin or Vienna have to be counted separatly resulting in 16.
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  987. is this a well known conspiracy theory?
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  988. It was an interesting video to watch, though I do not agree with every conclusion. You should be reminded that correlation does not imply causation. Also some was just exagerated: e.g. Germany is most likely not becoming a Slavic country in the 21st century, since the majority of the poulation is unlikely to learn Polish etc. And even people with Polish ancestory in Germany hardly speak the language.
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  989.  @atkocuboatkocubo8729  so, one needs to bomb and kill in Ukraine in order to "stand against Nato"? ... that is so wrong and inhuman.
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  990.  @Renega119  the collapse of the Soviet Union is more than 30 years ago, more than a generation. These people you are describing should be Ukrainian citizens by now, maybe Russian speaking, but not some Russian expats.
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  991. Das erste deutsche Viertel is weniger bekannt, das zweite durch seine z.T. noch erhaltenen Geschäfte schon. Solche Viertel erhalten sich auch durch eine kontinuierlichen Nachzug - hier von Deutschen. Den meist in der zweiten Generation ist man integriert und kulturell angekommen, hat es vielleicht auch wirtschaftlich geschafft und bedarf nicht mehr der Ursprungsgemeinschaft. Und hier liegt der Hauptgrund warum es heutzutage kein deutsches Viertel mehr gibt: kein untergegangener Ausflugsdampfer, sondern kaum nennenswerte Immigration aus deutschsprachigen Ländern an die Ostküste der USA. Das gleiche passiert auch in Little Italy: auch aus Italien gibt es kaum noch nennenswerte Immigration. Nur das hier eine Reihe von Restaurants für die Touristen erhalten wird. Auf der Rückseite des Blocks ist es schon längst Chinatown gewichen. Solche Prozesse vom Wachsen und Schwinden oder Sterben ethnisch geprägter Nachbarschaften gab es überall in New York und gibt es sie z.T. immer noch. Einen Hinweis können die Geschäfte in der Nachbarschaft als Faustregel geben: Cornershops /Lebensmittelläden werden oft von der wachsenen/ reinziehenden Gruppe betrieben, während die Beerdigungsinstitute eher der schwindenen, rausziehenden Gruppe zuzuordnen sind. Die Grüppchenbildung unter den Deutschen hat etwas mit der deutschen Geschichte selbst zu tun: 1820, 1840 oder 1860 begriffen sich die Deutschsprachigen noch nicht vollständig als Nation, sondern eher ihrer Region oder Teilstaat zugehörig: Bayern, Pfalz, Pommern etc. So gab es unzählige deutsche Vereine in New York - aber meist mit regionalem Bezug: Badischen Turnclub, Sächsischer Männerchor ... oder Plattduetscher Volksfestverein (den letzten gibt es heute noch) .
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  992. Wow, if a person is as big as 313 km2 and has been living since 1454, I guess, he can call himself "we". But the logic of the argument is not clear. Germany were 468 km2 before the war and is only 357 km2 now. Therefore it would be twice as logical that Kalingrad should be ceded to Germany.
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  993. So, it is all the fault of the Ukrainians - they asked for it to be attacked?! Strange world view. Even weirder is that those people suffering now under the Ruzzian aggression should have help Germans in WW2: that makes you how old are those people sitting in their bomb shelters and basements - are they all 90 or 100 or more years old?!?
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  994. For Germans in Germany it is very unusal to trace back the family history to the 1500s. I've already red comments of US Americans talking about the 1400's. Is it that many Americans are very much intp ancestry research? The 30-years-war in the 1600's left huge devastation in many German region with a lot of documents burnt. Plus in the 1400's not all people in German regions had an established family name, in rural areas even after that, which makes tracing records difficult.
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  995. "gender confused psychos" is exactly the stuff Putler says in his speeches. And actually I do have beef with this guy ordering to attack Ukraine and killing people there.
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  996. What I don't understand: why are all these Russian patriotic masses who dearly support their war leader are still eating and drinking these repackaged products from Nato countries or knockoffs made to rotten western recipe. If I was a good Solowjow viewer I would only eat kasha 3 times the day!!!1! And no Borscht because it is a fascist dish!!!11!! But anyhow, the prices were slightly higher than in Germany - which hard to wrap your head around it since salaries and pensions are not even half the German standard in Russia.
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  997.  @AleksKaverin  there is no Auchan in Germany...unfortunately. Well it is hard to know what to which market to compare it to? I have no feeling if the grocery store in the video was more expensive or of better quality for Russian conditions. It seems large though. Surprisingly the prices he mentioned sounded very familiar to me. Though I have to admit he said $ and I remember € prises. So it can be that the Russian prides are actually 10 % cheaper. When it comes to basics like milk, eggs or apples - there is not much difference if you to an discount Aldi or a larger Kaupfland. The larger non-discount markets differed rather in products with higher quality like cheese and wine.
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  998.  @tdrs1765  priceless for who?
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  999.  @tdrs1765  but this is universal: even in e.g. Romania you should compare wages to prices
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  1000.  @tdrs1765  interesting.
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  1001.  @sharkstv4086  Ukraine didn't declare war on ordinary people or Ukrainian citizens. There was a civil war with a militia, financed and supported by Russia. This is also reflected in the number of death roll, which were to a procentage these separatist fighters and Russian mercenaries and not civilians.
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  1002.  @ОлекЛис  well, strange ... what have Russians done there in the first place in these 8 years?!? I would not exchange them, but send them home to the Russia. Btw, the RuZzian propaganda fairytale of a nazi regime gets boring and tiresome ... can't Solojow & Co come up with a story about lizzard people or aliens?!
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  1003.  @ahonako4487  wer ist "ihr"? ...und was sollen diese gemacht haben??
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  1004.  @ahonako4487  exakt, Lügen, Lügen haben kurze Beine! Und Göbbelsowitsch Solowjow hat besonders kurze.
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  1005. where do you live? In Central Europe it is in every Supermarket, probably in several variation: made from porc; from geese; already with onions or apples...
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  1006.  @bigDbigDbigD  here it is basically left-overs. For example when you roast a goose there is so much grease coming out: That is basically schmaltz and people keep it in a mug for later use. The same goes for bacon. If you fry it, the fat which is left is porc schmaltz.
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  1007.  @mirpopolos6209  Denmark should invade Moscow due to Wiking claims!!1!!11 .... this is just ridiculous.
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  1008.  @mirpopolos6209  weirdly despite my spelling error you understood my comment anyhow ... Sorry, English is not my mother tongue, but it is the preferred language in the comment section. But if you feel more comfortable, we could switch to German, Russian or French - I don't mind .... and would understand Dutch if necessary.
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  1009.  @mirpopolos6209  *Das wäre ein großer Spaß.. = This would be a great fun. * Das würde viel Spaß machen. = This would make a lot of fun. "daß" is the outdated way of spelling the subjunction "dass".
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  1010.  @mirpopolos6209  the Vinking comment was not ment seriously, just to illustrate what kind of nonsense the other comments are.
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  1011.  @mirpopolos6209  actually, I find the new (20 year old) spelling rules in German fairly logical. You could hear the difference: dass has a short A followed by soft S - while Spaß has a long, stressed A follow by a soft S. Sorry, in German it called "subjunction" when this word follows a comma and starts a part of the sentences. BTW, comma rules in English are a mystery for Germans. "viel Spaß" in combination with "sein" (ist, wäre) doesn't sound right to me - I would use it with "haben" or "machen". But that could be my North German perception. South Germans or Austrians sometimes have a different concept of be and have.
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  1012.  @mirpopolos6209  Ceding Kaliningrad is spilled milk for me. It is so long ago and especially in the Russian part there is so little left what would recall German history. Neither are there German speaking people left. Growing up, I had a neighbour who was born there and spoke with that typical Königsberg accent. She surely had memories of her "Heimat".
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  1013.  @mirpopolos6209  I don't know what zooorchester means?! I've only noticed that Brits are very strict in regards of using the correct tenses. US American are fairly relaxed with it.
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  1014.  @mirpopolos6209  Memel is today in Lithuania. I'm not surprised by Putin's actions. I'm disappointed by the reactions of ordinary Russians - how little they care. But it's their sons and brothers who are dying in this war, too.
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  1015.  @mirpopolos6209  I don't understand the difference between the man and Henning...
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  1016.  @mirpopolos6209  this concept is foreign to me. Would it causes misunderstandings if I would use commas in both examples? There are memes in German: Commas can save life! and then show examples like: Come, let's eat, grandpa! vs. Come let's eat grandpa!
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  1017.  @mirpopolos6209  thanks! The concept of using commas just as a tool for pronoucation does not really exist in German. Here commas only follow grammatical rules: they indicates the start of a subordinate clause, they are used for listings, appositions or extended infinitives.
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  1018.  @mirpopolos6209  , in my region and other northern regions of Germany the R is not very present in words like "Mord" - you could hardly hear it there. Even the D is just a T at word endings.
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  1019.  @mirpopolos6209  I once red an interesting article about grammar and finances. The hypothesis was that Anglosaxons are more likely to live on credit and debts because they have so many separate ways of expressing the future grammatically and future is a distinct concept. While Germans often express future by using the present tense. They drew a connection between not distinguishing present and future grammatically with the German dislike for debts ...and basically saying the way we speak shapes the way we think.
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  1020.  @mirpopolos6209  yes, no D and G at the end of words, but T and K instead. Spoken Hochdeutsch will still have a regional accent. There is something called Operndeutsch, were they teach actors the proper way of spoken Standard German. But this could be ver pronounced. Generally the 8 o'clock news on the first public channel (ARD) are considered the standard for correct contempary German. All of the northern third of the country once spoke Plattdeutsch, but this is not the reality anymore. In my region it would be person born prior to the war and from rural areas ... so if you do the math it's only a handfull and over 85. Sometimes certain expressions survive. After the war, especially with the refugees from the East e.g. from Königsberg (often 1 out of 3 was a refugee) the situation changed and people stopped using local Low German. In small villages in the Northwest the situation might be different. There sometimes you could find still 50 years olds who use Plattdeutsch in everyday life. But in the generation younger than that there are no active speakers.
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  1021.  @mirpopolos6209  "Musik, die er liebte" seems perfectly correct to me. As apposition we would understand 'the lady in the blue dress last night' in the sentence "My friend Sue, the lady in the blue dress last night, also lives in Cambridge." It can't be it's own sentense but extents the main message "My friend Sue also lives in Cambridge." and needs to be in commas. Theoretically various forms of the future tense do exist in German, but they are hardly in use. Especially things comparable to the English gerund would sound silly but are theoretically possible. Regarding "I wonder how many people ..., and how many brave soldiers... ." Why is there no comma after 'I wonder' and why is there one before 'and'? In the German logic you would just do it the other way around. In German the term "Anglo-Saxon" is often used to describe something in the "British cultural sphere" without explicitly mentioning the UK, USA, Canada, Australia etc. Standard German or Hochdeutsch is actually a hybrid of southern and central German forms: a G at the end of the word should turn into a K-sound there. The CH-sound is the norther version of it. Though ... for example the guiding 8 o'clock news are produced in Hamburg in the North. A lot of TV productions are also made in Cologne (West). So the soft version could be quite prominent when watching TV. The Deutsche Bahn, while acting like private company, is heavily financed by the goverment and the taxpayer. The Federal Court of Audit had upbraided several years in a row that no-one has a clue what the Deutsche Bahn does with all the billions of tax money transferred to them. And then you read that they own railway companies in Britian, buy and sell bus companies in Croatia or Greece or a cargo company in Brazil or China. And this all happens at a time when many rail lines still only have one track (the second was often dismantled by the Soviets after 1945 as a reparation), many lines lacking savety features and trainstations in rural areas look like ruins. Well, to put it simple, for debit payments you should have money on your account, but for using a credit card you don't need to. For the last you create debts which you will pay back with interest sometime in the future. I was born in Magdeburg but live in Kiel now. In the Magdeburg area Low German was activly stoken by farmers and harbour workers in the 1950's. In the local newspaper there used to be one page in Low German in Saturday issue. In the 1990's there were recent stories people sent in. In the 2000's you could notice that there were more and more old stories they reprinted. Since the 2010's this page doesn't exist anymore. It is quite obvious that the people speaking und reading it are dying out. The local Low German was also influenced by Dutch since there were Dutch settlers over the centuries. In a way it was similar to the former East Prussian Königsberg region where you had Low German and Dutch settlers as well. In contrast the West Prussian region around Danzig had more Central German / Silesian influences. In Kiel this Low German page once a week in the local newspaper still exists, but you don't hear Plattdeutsch in the city. With some luck you will find it amoung older folks, farmers or construction workers in the villages of the region.
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  1022.  @mirpopolos6209  FYI, Angela Merkel was born in Hamburg, then West Germany. Bartels is a fairly common German Family name with the highest density in Northern Germany including the Northern part of Central Germany ... if you just look at GenWiki. It can be also found a lot in the US, but in the Netherlands, UK and Canada, too.
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  1023.  @mirpopolos6209  for some reason replies are sometimes suppressed or shown properly. I don' know why that is?!
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  1024.  @mirpopolos6209  well, a Zoootter would have at least some meaning - a Zooorchester I've never seen or heard off. Triple-O should be only correct with the last spelling reform - the one which introduced "dass". Why should I be an *Ossi, if the place of birth doesn't matter. BTW, the iron curtain fell almost 33 years ago - that is pretty long time. And Henning is a common name in Northern Germany, Denmark or Norway - related to Henry or John, which are probably also Hindu and African names...
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  1025.  @mirpopolos6209  Well, but did "Wessi" also enter English vocabulary back then? BTW, neither Angela M. nor I grew up in Saxony, as 75% of East Germans did not live in the territory of Saxony. This is a typical misconception. The same as 85% of Germans do not live in Bavaria and Bavarian traditions like Lederhosen or yodeling are foreign to them. Sigrid or Heinrich are very, very old-fashion names. The same as Gerhard, Gerd, Gero, Gernot, Gertrud, Gerrit ... Ger is a very old word for spear, which made some people believe that Germans were the men with the spears. Well, German is in exonym anyway, used by the Romans. Those people did not call themself like this ...nor they thought they are all the same and belong to a larger unit. I would think, everyone knows how to pronounce Roger ... since they use the phrase "roger, over and out" in movies.
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  1026.  @mirpopolos6209  Ask Americans about what they know about typical German things and you will get a list of Bavarian stereotypes. If people nowadays mention Saxony, they mean the federal state of Saxony with it's capital Dresden. Their destinct accent and quirky behavior is the cause of many jokes and stereotypes. Hardly anyone refers of Saxony in the sense of the medieval settlement regions of the Old Saxons which were around Hannover or Magdeburg 1000 years ago. Not all Germans are Swabians and I went to school with a Roger.
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  1027.  @mirpopolos6209  please, don't get excited abou every typo. I don't have a an English correction tool or app here. By the way a discussion is not about agreeing on everything: it is also about exchanging information and a good change to get to know and understand other perspectives toward a topic: perspective you can not have from your South English point of view. If you find this information unimportant is entirely up to you. Saxony (capital Dresden) is a federal state in the the Eastern corner of Germany bordering Czechia. It just to be it's own kingdom prior to 1918 (and the end of monarchy) and then its own, so-called "Free-state". Therefore it has a strong tradition and local pride. But it is also region made fun off. I wanted to share this with you - because you can often find youtube comments in this direction. Saxony-Anhalt (capital Magdeburg) is a different federal state of todays Germany - situated more North-West. It originated in a Prussian province combined with dukedom of Anhalt. The Prussian province just had a adminstative history therefore you won't that much local patriotism there. Those Prussia was the opponet of the Kingdom of Saxony, mentioned before. You won'T make friends there, throwing everything in one pot. Anhalt was a tiny territory but with a famous Duke Franz. He was well traveled and very much into entlighment and created the first park scheme in the English Style on the continent. This parc landscape together with its manors is a UNESCO heritage site today. Roger's parent were not French - I guess the name sounded just cool and mondern at this time. If your Sirs have Wikipidea arcticle you could read some personal details there as well, like that Lampl's father migrated from Vienna, which explains the fammily name. BTW, I'm on holidays next week, too. On the popular Elbe bicycle route passing through Saxon Switzerland as well: I hope you granddaughter has heard of the 9-Euro-ticket. Due to the Ukraine energy crises the gouverment wants to promote public transportation: all local trains, busses and trams can be used for 9 Euro for the duration of a whole month.
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  1028. Not all Western Slavs are automatically Poles. Having a name rooted in a Slavic term, doesn't necessarily mean Slaves founded the town or made it grow to city, it could just be a name for the topography which used to be there before the town, like Berlin = swamp or Leipzig = linden trees.
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  1029. Seriously, how can someone deliberately choose this profile pic?
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  1030.  @johnleake5657  it is simular, though in the German version he is better to understand - just having a Danish accent. Where he sings "Bork, bork, bork!" (don't know if it means anything?) in the English version, he sings „Smørrebrød, Smørrebrød røm, pøm, pøm, pøm“ in the German version. I guess, Germans are more familar with Danes because many go there on vacation and many know that Smørrebrød means sandwich in Danish.
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  1031. I wonder, why 50% of conspiry theories over Germany come from Polish commentators?
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  1032. Have you learnt other languages before?
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  1033.  @dodiddone6547  so actually, you don't really have a comparison whether learning another language would be easier or more difficult.
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  1034.  @dodiddone6547  so I guess in this regards you will also have problem with learning French or Spanish.
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  1035. 🤣😂🤣
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  1036. How do you this about the blood?
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  1037.  @sezon_copa  the translator shows blood... but there is also the possibility to explain the true meaning ... just saying
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  1038. whart does this has to do do with the topic of the video?
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  1039.  @thegnwigeberht1066  He was plain mad, not only in his speeches but also in his ideas, which resulted in 50 million dead ... with alone 9 million in Germany as a result of his policies.
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  1040.  @thegnwigeberht1066  so if this "information" is "hidden" - how did you get to it?
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  1041. by the way it's 2022!
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  1042.  @knopkaplay0507  everybody is surrounded by propaganda - though I'm still able to reflect and question those things.
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  1043.  @knopkaplay0507  for the majority in Russia I have doubts. Most of them are so-called "apolitical", handed over their political interest to Putler's clique or even follow blindly his propaganda stories.
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  1044.  @baniSaqer  "fed up" has a double meaning. Maybe i'm really fed up indeed with people just blindly repeating Solowjow and Putler.
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  1045.  @baniSaqer  aha, and where would that be, you guy?🤣😂
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  1046. You don't rember 1773 because you were not born. You seem not even been born 2013 because you did have history any lessons yet: Kaliningrad never was Polish. You obviously not even 18 - otherwise you would know that Kronenbourg is an Alsatian beer - nothing more.
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  1047. Because Europe always asked for it!!!1!111!!!
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  1048. If you live in a country in the West you have to accept the country's passport, administration and you need to use the official language for legal situations. There is no difference. Sometimes you have the feeling some Russians have a total diffenrent approach to integration. At the same time I know well-intergrated Ukrainians in other ex-USSR repunblics, who are even able to speak e.g. Estonian.
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  1049.  @gen_xecutioner  me and other readers from this side of the pond are not familiar with the specifics of Brownsville Texas.
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  1050. no common person on the street in Germany speaks like Rammstein. Their pronuncation is exaggerated - simular to Hitler.
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  1051.  @snowsnow4231  yo, the perpetrator-victim-reverse as we already know it from the Ruzzian propaganda everyday.
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  1052.  @metapolitikgedanken612  I don't get the connection between your comment and my comments.
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  1053.  @BanjoSick  alright, I've learned something new :-)
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  1054. At lot of the points sound relatable. It is frustrating if even simple things which are easy at home seem complicated abroad. Plus as an adult you think you figured out most of the things so far - and suddenly things are new and you feel like a minor or child learning things for the first time. Though often her experiences sound like an American never been or lived abroad. For Europeans due to their small countries they would probably not run into so many culture shocks: they know that not everyone speaks their language or English abroad. They know that sun rises early in summer. They are used to learn another language and speak more than one. Also it is typical for US American to hesitate the health care system, which is not the case for Europeans.
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  1055. Did he? I also watched the video and could not see this ... maybe it is just your interpretation of the cropped image.
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  1056. W o w 😮
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  1057. they more or less were on this way anyhow, but saleries and pensions were and still are a fraction of those in the EU.
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  1058. The baltic people stole that land from the neanderthals anyway.
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  1059. ​ @f123pio7 have you telepathic abilities, since you what all people think?
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  1060.  @f123pio7  🤣
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  1061. Ask your government... not the rest of world that watches this video.
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  1062. I have already problems with intro. The resistance group “Weiße Rose” might be widely unknown in the States, but certainly not in Germany. The election of March 1933 shown was not fair, free and indepent and democratic as claimed. Hitler gained power already in January 1933 as a result of the elections of November 1932 und started to suppress oposition and often brutally targeting their candidates. Especially, in today's politics knowing how that worked and the so-called "Gleichschaltung" would be valuable. Comparing the membership of the nazi party with todays party membership is also highly problematic, because it is not comparable- People were often forced to joined the nazi party - otherwise they were theatened to loose their position or even the whole job. No-one threatens you today if you don't join a party.
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  1063. Well, in only a few areas which belonged to Poland before the war like parts of Upper Sileasia the German minority was allowed to stay. For the majority of the population in the "gained territories" of 8 million it meant they were forcefully expelled or prohibited to return to their homes once the fighting actions were over. They did not just "leave". For the expulsion the new Polish administration often even used ethnic lists made by the n*zis in a pseudo-racial context. Only a few individuals were allowed to stay: when the were essential for keeping up production in factories or had a Polish spouse. Even Slavic Sorbs or Kashubian were removed if they were not able to proof their Slavicness. Theoretically also people who were persecutee by the n*zi regime. Though that was sometimes hard to proof in the chaos of 1945. Even though in your opinion the population were just Germanized Slavs or Poles that meant little for the millions who were expelled.
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  1064.  @КолтуновСерёга  could you predict the numbers for fridays Euro lottery as well? cheers - that would be great. I promise I will donate 50% to Ukrainian refugees.
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  1065. good question. Though the video is filmed in English, the video pleases the Russian self-perception.
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  1066. Luther ist in Eisleben geboren, ging u.a. in Magdeburg zur Schule znd wirkte später in Wittenberg. Alles Orte nahe dem Niederdeutsche zu jener Zeit. Wie Luther gesprochen hat, wissen wir nicht: es gab noch keine Tonaufzeichnungen. Bei seinen Schriftstücken hat er sich an der Schreibweise der Meißner Kanzlei und oberdeutschen Schreibweisen orientiert, damit möglichst viele Leute sie lesen und verstehen konnten. Mit wie man bei Luthers übern Gartenzaun klönte, hat das ebenso wenig zu tun.
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  1067. A state flag is not a war flag (Kriegsflagge) - therefore the different name, duh!
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  1068.  @theantagonist2147  why would the EU do that? And what kind of mafia is intrested in Poland? The pirogi mafia?!
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  1069.  @theantagonist2147  there is nothing wrong with that. Wrong is when you discriminate against other groups, transform an independent justice system and pressure free media.
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  1070. ​ @chlopakzpolski Hanseatic merchants towns like Danzig got a better deal with the Polish crow with privileges and autonomy - this was attractive than high taxes under the Teutonic knights who constantly needed money for building and maintaining huge castles. That the true reason - and not the later Polish nationalistic stained narrative.
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  1071. The French are not really known for producing delicious ice cream in Europe.
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  1072. Maybe with ultra patriotic politicians it will never become a superpower...
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  1073.  @L_back  !?
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  1074. double sinks used to be more common in Germany at times when you washe your dishes by hand. But with the introduction of dish washing maschines single sinks are more common.
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  1075. Patricia, do they? How do you know?
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  1076.  @patriciaadansi  who is "we"? Are you several?
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  1077. Heaven forbid to have someone like Trump in Germany. You know what a mad, short-tempered person can do with a bunch of duteous Germans.
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  1078.  @80Vikram  you can't be serious to ask such question.
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  1079. It's the lizzard people taking over!!!1!1!!
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  1080. well explained.
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  1081. are there high rise buildings in Brussels at all? ;-)
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  1082. In Germany to be cut off from Russian fossil fuel speeded up the transition to more renewables and sustainable heating methods. Okay, the process is a bit pumpy, but after all a meaningful process regarding climate change.
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  1083.  @Raghetiel  to be honest, (regardless of the war in Ukraine) people in Germany are tired of global brands and rather buy locally produced version of coke or other sodas. This trend has been existing for years. Anyhow, "Apfelschorle" - a mixture of carbonated apple juice with mineral water is the nation favourit when it becomes to refreshments (beside plain carbonated water and beer).
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  1084. what kind of gibberish is that?
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  1085.  @MichealHawrylyshen1776  no, I don't understand... sounds more like a crude conspiracy theory.
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  1086. It so sad, that the 9th person truely believes in the rediculous Russian propaganda about the "rotten West" with stories which are clearly fake.
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  1087. Have you ever been to Germany?
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  1088. Actually the earth is flat actually!!1!!1!
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  1089. good to know! People not watching Ruzzian media wouldn't know that Russia just wants to beautify Bakhmut to rubble and it were very friendly bombs on the children in Mariupol's theater....
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  1090.  @keti.rg.editzzz  I don't see that. Some dialects sometimes have a higher intonation within a sentence or question. But this exist in some English dialects as well.
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  1091. "return"?
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  1092. what is it then?
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  1093.  @cyrildewaha  what happend in 1976?
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  1094. what has the "Solidaritätszuschlag" to do with all this?
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  1095. not all Germans like Pumpernickel - it is very special.
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  1096.  @ukulehrling  well, the majority in Germany seems to be fake then...
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  1097.  @ukulehrling  nothing against a nice blood sausage preferably with tongue.
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  1098. What is EUA?
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  1099. BTW, comtempary Central Europeans still use fennel for medicinal purposes. But it does not help against the hurtful mispronunciation of van Gogh by Americans.
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  1100.  @EvilRussianVladimir  the alleged "truth" is always on the side of the winner. The RuZzians already lost morally.
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  1101. Who is they and did they do?
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  1102. stole from who? what kind of wild theory is this?
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  1103.  @mrz9093  well, this advice I would rather give to you, since you are so clueless, that you are not even able to explain what you actually ment. With the founding of Germany in 1871 Königsberg was an integral part of this nation state. Your "stealing" is pure nonsense or you don't know how to express what you really ment.
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  1104. I does exist and sometimes you will find it on the menu of restaurants which serve local dishes ... but I wouldn't call "popular".
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  1105. David, so why do good patriotic, Putler supporting Russians buy these overpriced products made to rotten Nato recipes?!??
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  1106. From which war are you fleeing?
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  1107. "I think I spider" is plain nonsense and wouldn't make any sense in Anglish either.
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  1108. ​ @tomaszs-hq1ql  English developed in the last 1500 or 1300 years and took almost half of its vocabulary from old French.
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  1109. what are west partners?
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  1110. ​ @tottot5924 "tsung tswang" is obviously a German loan word from "Zugzwang" literally: the need to make the next move - and is related to chess playing.
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  1111.  @tottot5924  I think, this not exactly the meaning of Zugzwang (lit. move necessitation) in German. It describes that you are forced to make a move, which might not be the best opion, but there is no time to think it over or be passive.
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  1112.  @tottot5924  sure, but it is interesting when one language adopts loanwords from another language but slightly changes the meaning. Classics are the German words of Butterbrot, Schlagbaum or Perückenmacher in Russian, where you can still see the origin but with a shifted meaning in Russian today. That could lead to so-called false friends and misunderstandings.
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  1113.  @AltIng9154  Grenze the word in German and derived from Slavic, whether that was from Sorbians, Polish or Czech or anything between in the 13th century - I don't know. Though Polish has many German loan words regarding urban infrastructure, like words for town hall ot mayor. That illustrates that German settlers, German merchants and German town law was important for the process of urbanisation in Polish lands in the late middle ages.
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  1114. a united Germany was founded in 1871 ... funny how it was supposed to rule even before.
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  1115. well ... RuZzians are not the victims here - because of them Ukrainian sit in the basement without drinking water and electricity ... and no chance to go outside shopping for cheese and ice cream or otherwise they got shot.
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  1116.  @ПавелНестеров-е5я  questin? sentence? meaning?
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  1117. "Kaliningrad" ... do you realize?
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  1118. I'm not sure if "Götte" is really a term, or if there something got lost... Apparently "Gört" could mean in North Sea Low German "Graupen" or "Grütze" ... and actually it reminds me of Grützwurst.
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  1119.  @davidbraun6209  okay, the source also names Görte and Grütte, which make more sense in my ears. With Goetta I wondered were the "r" found in the other forms disappeared?!
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  1120.  @Hellmood_CZ  when?
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  1121.  @leiflillandt1488  have you been to Germany and compared protest there with other places? I doubt it. Btw, Chechnya was an internal Russia affair which makes it even harder to influence it. Germany accepted many refugees from Chechnya, Georgia or Ukraine - that doesn't change the situation but still is a help for those people.
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  1122.  @Sankara561  rhetorical question?
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  1123.  @darenzy  well, strangely mainly Serbs were accused of war crimes in The Hague and no American.
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  1124. I'm sick of Russian double standard when it comes tp peace and the protection of human lives.
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  1125.  @marat777  Nazism and Imperialism is evil, that why Putler should not win!
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  1126. in the largest ...
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  1127.  @Wild-Siberia  it is more likely to be over as soon as Russia gets a new president.
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  1128. there is no ancient Prussian Baltic tribe left - those people got assimilated in German society over centuries. The same with those Slavic villagers East of the Elbe river - disolved in the local population there.
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  1129. Prussia does not exist anymore.
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  1130. Whataboutism?
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  1131. In Germany in the various regions similar dishes exist, not mainly to produce something cheap, but rather traditionally during hog killing nearly every part was used and all the little left overs were mixed with pearl barley. ... similar to this what the Scottish do for Haggis with sheep rests. Usually these meat products are very greasy and don't stay in form of a patty.
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  1132. I wonder, if a white picket fence is important to the American dream house, why you hardly see them in the front yard? There often just unfenced lawn in US suburbia. It is really not that common to see single family houses with solid concrete walls in Germany. Perforated bricks, calcium silicate bricks or gas concrete blocks are rather the material of choice. Solid concrete is more expensive and rather used in multi-story, multi-family houses or office buildings. Working with concrete and such also implies the need to dry ... there is a tendency to rush construction or try to shorten construction times in Germany. This comes with a high risk that the walls or floors are not complitly dry. When adding the insulation (WDVS) or the flooring material too quickly there is a high chance to result in mold. So better not to rush the construction too much. There is a German saying that a new house should be left alone for a whole winter periode before moving in.
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  1133. ha, ha, ha, .... genau mein Humor!
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  1134.  @TheMrPyatka  what is the point here? Ruzzia finances various rebells in various regions in proximity to Russia to destabilize those regions.
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  1135.  @RussianHomesteadGirl-kz6df  have you any proof of these alleged "thousands of women and children" killed by Ukraine in Donbas? Well, it is true that thousands of the rebels armed and financed by Ruzzia died in Donbas so far, but these were mostly men. Or is Ruzzia now employing children soldiers? Do you actually have creative freedom for inventing alternative narratives or do get prepared stories you should write here? Do you actually get extra bonus working today on Sunday? Question over question...
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  1136.  @subhankarbaral9236  just post the link to the alleged document in order to proof your claim.
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  1137.  @domroyutuber  I find it perfectly logical to speak Russian with a Russian reporter who probably doesn't speak Ukrainian. Though what made your Russian family to live in the Ukraine? And did they not become Russian citizens?
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  1138.  @domroyutuber  why would you talk to a Russian YouTuber or journalist not in Russian? Since this is lingua franca...
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  1139.  @domroyutuber  yes, so they belonged to one ethnic group among others living in Ukraine. An since they lived there all their life they probably had the chance to become Ukrainian citizen. So where is the problem? Do you think it were up to them to decide that others like Ukrainians, Pontic Greeks or Crimea Tartars have to live under Putin's rule in Russia?
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  1140.  @domroyutuber  why can't you talk Russian? This makes no sense since they obviously did in the video as you already stated before. BTW, Polish or Czech might be able to understand and speak Russian, but they don't want to.
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  1141.  @domroyutuber  so you heard of a murder? From who? Did you know those people? And do you know who killed them? And was this person prosecuted?
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  1142.  @domroyutuber  maybe you should read your comment again?! What is it actually you want to get accross?? Other than writing about some hear-say-story with no detailed and further information...?!
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  1143.  @rinomedingin6390  which of the comments are you refering to?
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  1144.  @geraldgeaf1292  is this so clear? There could be ethic Russians, there could be ethnic Ukrainian speaking Russian, there could be ethic Tartars or Greeks speaking Russian and Probably a large number already fled because their houses and villages are bombed. How many dead children in theatre of Mariupol spoke Russian, how many Ukrainian before they died?!?
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  1145.  @geraldgeaf1292  I have no idea what you arguments are based on. Apparently in the East of Ukraine ethnicity and language is very fluent. According to the zensus of 2001 about 70% of the inhabitants of the region had Russian as mother tongue, this is an official fact. Since there are more ethnic Ukrainians using Russian than ethnic Russians speaking Ukrainian it is very, very unlikely that your claim the wholre region consists of ethnic Russian can't be true. How the referendum and their results came about is highly dudious. The Ruzzian strategy of destabilising entire regions but supporting dubios militas is more than onvious and could be seen in Donbas since 2014. A pattern Russia also did and does in other Regions adjacent to their territory. And finally Russia did not just occupy Donbass by military force - it went beyond turning whole towns and villages into rubble and making whole strips of land in extremly dangerous by placing thousands of land mines which already caused more than 3,000 victims.
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  1146.  @RealReporter  Danish prices and Danish level of VAT is not standard in Europe.
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  1147.  @iTand , who is "they"? And are the U.S. becoming more like China?
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  1148. @Keir Campbell you seem to be a friend of simple "truth". This soldier was 18 on D-Day, as he said in the video. How old are you? What would you do if there is draft call. Don't forget, even the inhabitans of the occupied countries had to go to the Wehrmacht if they were considered somewhat "German", that was the case in Luxembourg, Belgium, Alsace, Poland, Czech Republic, ...
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  1149. Poland already took the southern half of the territory the same way the Russians did. So no need to look down on Russians.
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  1150. did you watch the video at all?
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  1151.  @geoffpriestley7001 , so since toilet paper, soap and water do exist in the US there is no need to keep one hand under the table.
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  1152. 'Cause bombing shopping centres, hospitals or rescue teams in flooded areas are just made out of strategic value from Ruzzian military- not to harm civilians...sure!!1!!!1 Your comment is another example how little emphaty the majority of Russian for the people in Ukraine suffering - and it is the cause why Russians lose more abd more sympathy worldwide.
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  1153. First, don't be misled that many town names are rooted in Slavic terms ... but this doesn't necessarily mean that the city has a Slavic origin. It could be also toponyms ... names of landscape features the Slavic population used. Prominent example is Berlin. The name is rooted in a Slavic term for swamp. Though the town, as well as neighbouring Cölln, was founded by settlers from the Lower Rhine and Westphalia - but they settled in the swamp the Slavic neighbors had already s name for.
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  1154.  @Cvokarium  not all Western Slavs are or were Poles, even though some Polish commentators sometimes want to give this impression. Think of today's Czech ir Sorbians... but also ancient already assimilated tribes between Elbe and Oder and beyond. Place names with -witz or -ow could be an indication of an original Slavic settlement because they are often a possessive from a person's name E.g. Peter's homestead becomes Peter-ow when he passed it to his children and they to their descendants. Same applies for -witz, but -itz could just be an adjective, e.g. Chemnitz comes from "stony", "rocky" and derives from stony creek and could be a toponym again.
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  1155. you paid for hotels? or you have darker skin? ... I don't get this rant.
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  1156. "Freedom"🤣😂🤣
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  1157. Russia is alread in Europe.
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  1158. the knit cap adds to this impression ;-)
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  1159. Ralf, this alledged connection of the spoken Saxon Dialect to modern standard German is more an urban myth.
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  1160.  @ralfhtg1056  was Sprachforscher sagen und was Leute in Sachsen dann daraus für rin populäre Geschichte machen, sind zwei verschiedene Sachen. Meist bezieht sich das auf Luthers Bibelübersetzung. Auch wenn Luther sich bei seiner SCHREIBweise unter anderen. an der Schriftform der Meißner Beamten orientiert hat, hat das wenig damit zu tun, wie Lieschen Müller heute auf der Straße in Zwickau SPRICHT.
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  1161.  @ralfhtg1056  ja, aber so gut niemand macht sich über die sächsische Wortbildung lustig. Die Aussprache und Betonung ist doch Anlass für Spott oder Ablehnung. Verstehst du den Unterschied? Luthers Bibelübersetzung war ein Hybrid mittel- und oberdeutscher Sprachformen, weil er wollte, dass die Schrift in möglichst weiten Teilen des deutschen Sprachraums verstanden wird. Ob wir überhaupt wissen, wie Luther wirklich selbst gesprochen hat, bezweifle ich. Geboren in Eisleben, was sich zu dieser Zeit am Übergang vom Niederdeutschen zum Mitteldeutschen befand, Schule besucht in Magdeburg, wo vielleicht gelehrte und höhergestellte Kreise im Laufe der Zeit Hochdeutsch zu verwenden versuchten, die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung aber Niederdeutsch sprach. Ähnlich sah es auch in Wittenberg aus. Als Mönch in Erfurt oder später auf der Wartburg vefand er sich im Thüringer Sprachumfeld. Das was wir wissen ist, dass er sich wohl von der bereits etablierten Schreibweise der Meißner Beamten inspirieren lassen hat.
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  1162. There are apartments with and without kitchen cabins /stove in Germany. I only rented apartments so far which came with a kitchen, since this was a selection criterion for me. My advice would be: if you sign a lease for an appartment, never give the security depostit for the apartment (usually one or two month worth of rent) directly to your landlord. There is no garantee you will get it completly back when you move out. Better to open up a "Mietkautionskonto" (rental deposit account) at your bank in Germany. This way it is YOUR account and there is need for a constructive agreement over the account after you move out. In case of a dispute with your landlord there is no chance for him to run off with your money.
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  1163. Living directly on the Elbe river in Germany I can confirm that cargo ship trafic has been decreasing constantly for the last 2 decades to the point there are almost none in the central Elbe portion. Due to climate change the last years had massive summer draughts in Eastern Germany lowering the river leveel below 1 meter almost for whole summer half of the year. Below this meter no cargo shipping is possible. Sometimes passager ships would operate until a water level of 90 cm, but often where not running in July and August due to even lower levels. So the video ideas look nice - they are far from reality, where actually motorways in Germany are packed with trucks transporting goods. All this money would be more wisely spent in improving railways for cargo trains which would be much more reliable and thenmaybe building a ship to train terminal at the Danube.
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  1164.  @Wild-Siberia  but Russian is probably the most logical with less exeptions when you stick to the rules ... and onces you know the rules. Therefore it important to really take grammar lessons. Since you speak German, did you notice that Russian adopted many German words? Sometimes the meaning shifted a little bit: Butterbrot, Schlagbaum, Glühwein, Perückenmacher, Stempel, Zifferblatt, Brandmauer, ...
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  1165. apparently this was name of the castle residence for king Ottokar in the 1200's - probably on hill. Later the name was adopted for the town area near by.
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  1166. ​​ @Wild-Siberia  compared to other countries, for example in Europe the US has very few accents and people speak fairly similar with minor differences. Just compare is with the UK which just has a fifth of the population and a far greater variety of accents and dialects. Russian, despite the vast country seems fairly homogeneous too, and many you the Moscow accent as a guideline.
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  1167.  @Wild-Siberia  I'm offering you just a different perspective, since you obviously haven't been to the various parts of the UK and I presented you the advantage of truly learning Russian since it is very similar in an enormous territory. You are welcome!
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  1168.  @Wild-Siberia  Native Americans in the US have or rather had their own indigenous languages. If they have an accent in American English probably depends on the individual. Is your mother tongue English or Spanish?
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  1169.  @Wild-Siberia  do all US Americans know the Californian constitution in detail? Is it taught in schools eg in Minnesota? Anyhow, you don't sound like a person using Valley speak, which people would internationally know from media.
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  1170.  @Wild-Siberia  at least this type of accent is known to a wider audience through movies and alike: https://youtu.be/Tt-tG6ufH90 https://youtu.be/v0JOxtez9XQ
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  1171.  @TochkaTochkaZapaytaya  well, meanwhile in Russia you don't need transfer secret - you just need to mention the word "war" together with some criticism to be prosecuted.
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  1172. Billy understands pressing a button will get her attention from humans. Nothing more and nothing less.
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  1173.  @brigidtheirish  yes, pressing a button has the same effect as meowing ... cats mainly do it with humans because they learned it will get them attention. Billy doesn't know how to use words and how to build sentences. The conversation around her pressing a button are just interpretations and human projections - which can be fun and entertaining. But one should realize that.
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  1174.  @brigidtheirish  does she really? How do you now , that she really wanted exactly that what she got as an result. She just presses a button to get attention and than is happy whether it is food, a treat, pet or a toy. To proof that she really ment what she was pressing, you should give her something else and she had to signal disappointment. BTW, I guess, it very likely she presses "mad" so often is that the sound is similar to "meow".
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  1175. That is sad and somehow typical as well. Last time I went to Potsdam I had small talk with a woman from the Western part of Berlin who was the first time in Potsdam and amazed ... though it is just a 15 min train ride.
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  1176. Speculating about Ukraine and Ukrainian forces... is somehow interesting - but from two dudes sitting in Russia it would be more interesting to hear about the Ruzzian forces and what are the speculations about Putlers latest strategy. Well, okay, western tanks have also deficits and the Ukrainian forces have no brilliant plan - but, well, that just means they are on common ground with the Ruzzians.
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  1177. Yes, peaceful in Siberia - not so much on the shores of the Black Sea or Dnepr.
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  1178. Juri, there is difference: those Wends were assimilated, not expelled like the people in Kaliningrad.
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  1179. Why should someone from Munich not have Jewisch ancestors?
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  1180. Why would you have to mention it? What difference does it make?
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  1181.  @elenekuprashvili1145  okay, no answer is also an answer: obviously the way they spoke doesn't matter - you just wrote it, because you have nothing to do in life.
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  1182. ​ @Disorder2312  not long ago it was enough to speak German to be shot, raped, expelled or send to a gulag or Siberia. This way of thinking would be nothing new in Russia.
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  1183. What is your "heimatland" - since neither your English nor German is understandable?
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  1184. and rightfully so!
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  1185.  @98wojtas  Why are you cringing when you have zero knowledge about what you are talking about, when you don't the existens of Sorbs, Silesians or Pomeranians?! If you did actual research you'd know that Gdansk first surviving record show the name "Gyddanyzc" (and not Gdansk), the oldest seal by the town adminstration itself "Danceke". The German "Stetin" has a record from 1140, the Polish "Sczecin" is recorded in 1273 and also the Kashubian "Szczecëno" exists. As you say, Wroclaw is a modern Polish version and not the "Wortizlawa" or "Wratislawa" of the 10th century. The oldest record where "Bresslau" was used is from 1266. Do your research before commenting and don't lecture people when you know so little... Keep in mind that Dutch people (like Jochem) had little contact wit Polish versions of city names before 1945 and genereally used the German version of the city names like Danzig and this over centuries - or they had even their own Dutch version like Danswijk or Stettijn.
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  1186.  @98wojtas  Once again one can claim that you also did zero to no research, you have no clue about what you're talking about. Pomerians and Silesians were both Slavic like Sorbs ans Czechs - but they didn't know that you will come 1200 years later and declare them as Poles - which proves my point, that it not very fitting to project your Polish narrative stencils on things which are more than a millenia ago. All three cities identify with the old quarters which where heavily shaped by the presents of 7 centuries of German speaking inhabitants. If you truely want to draw a tradition line to the 12 th century you should name it Szczycin and Wrocisław and reduce the size to 1% and rebuild the 12 th century houses. If it is "irrelevant what the Dutch has to say about anything" (besides that the author claims to be a historian), why do you watch this video at all?!? This is a free internet and Poland is still a free country, where you will find videos which fit more your Polish narrative taste. Maybe you will also find a tutorial there how to carry out a constructive discourse as you should watch your languange here. The aim of a discussion is not about agreeing in every detail - but it is also a good chance to get to know and understand other perspectives toward the topic. Apparently, many Polish commentators live in their nationalistic bubble.
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  1187.  @98wojtas  obviously, you know a lot of things, especially about other who you don't even know, e.g. that they did not do any research or that they have not right on a different opion or different perspective. That leave me with the conclusion, you either do a lot of assumptions or you have special abilities that you can read other peoples minds. In case you are truely a psychic, I would really appreciate, if you could list the numbers for tomorow's Europe lottery here... thanks in advance!. Using your own words is called "mirrowing" and is a rhetoric mean to show you how ridiculous and bias your wording style is ... and hopefully make you reflect on it. FYI, many Silesians and Pomeranians assimilates in the their German speaking surrounding over the centuries. And weirdly enoogh they where not recieved as "Polish enough" and were forcefully expelled as the rest of the population in Pomerania or Lower and Central Silesia. Even the Sorbs east of the Oder river were expelled, aparently because they were not "Polish" or "Slavic" enough for the new Polish administration. Anyhow, if YOU would have "done your research" you would have watched the video carefully and notice that the author DIDN'T say that the city names were Polonized from German. He just mentioned that in 1945 the borders were move westwards and Danzig "became" Gdanks and Breslau "became" Wroclaw. Nothing more and nothing less. That the particular city administration officially used Breslau or respectively Danzig before 1945 and Wroclaw or respectively Gdansk after 1945 is just a fact. Both names existed before and both name still exist today. Renaming didn't happen to the three towns mentioned in videos, but also to the other hundreds of towns and villages as well as city quarters and streets - many of them didn't exist in the 11th or 13th century. If everything had always a Polish name and were called in a Polish way back to iternity, I wonder why there were renaming commitees all over the gained territories. There existence and work must have been useless in your logic. ... and if YOU would have "done your research" you would have red my comments carefully and would have notice that I never claimed which names should be used. It is just your nationalistic perspective which interprets things into the video and is eager to draw national lines over 1200 years.
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  1188.  @bigblockjalopy  why?
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  1189. The funniest thing of all is that international researchers agree that the advanced Putinism uses fascist methods and it is called in its special form Ruscism. Many in Ruzzia don't realise it is not about symbols but actions and there is a lot fascistoid filth to clean up right on the Ruzzian doorsteps.
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  1190. I don't get this comment and the connection... there were Russian tourists in Germany in the 1930's??
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  1191. as a European I could care less what weird name coke has in Russia and why Russian buy these unhealthy drinks. Should I be concerned about the Russian diet and health?, when RuZzians don't even care about lives and health in Ukraine at all?!?
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  1192. ... or he is a woman working for the Easter bunny?!?22!1
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  1193. Highly speculative... one thing is for sure: shame and disrespect is yours!
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  1194.  @Last_Shinobi  I guess, you are proud, that RuZzia is killing people in Ukraine.
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  1195. 😯 ....🤣
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  1196. You've clearly never been to Russia or watch Russian TV - otherwise you would know what true lying, propaganda and brainwashing is. That is so typical Western Europe: weeping about minor discomforts where the rest of the world would just shake their head about it.
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  1197.  @fawkes7601  how do you know everyone else's view?!? Are you a psychic or a medium by any chance? Can you also speak with dead? For example with those from Butcha? Or can you forsee the future? It would be very kind if you could provide Friday's lottery numbers? I promise I'll donate half of the winnings to a reconstruction project in Ukraine.
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  1198. H. ist dead. Even if he moved to Argentina he would be 134 years by now. this is 12 years older than the langest living person so far.
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  1199. the Earth is flat!!11!1!11!
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  1200.  @magslight3728  the earth of flat for those who don't except basic facts .... basic facts like Poland being a EU member.
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  1201.  @Ginnilini  so how do put your books in your Kallax? I sort them by colour... there must be order within your book arrangements as well !!!
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  1202.  @Wild-Siberia  loosing 200,000 young men in the best working age (who are dead now) doesn't make a country stronger, but creates a huge gap. Plus half a million who fled for mobilisation and due to restrictions for creatives, press and sanctions. These were also young and creative folks which must have harmed Russian economy. Might be that the remaining rest believes "stronger" in the RuZZian propaganda - but that's abou it, what got "stronger" there.
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  1203. Wenn die AfD mit Hass und Hetze wirkt, dann bei solchen Kommentaren wie von Y0uTu6e114.
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  1204. all German in habitants were expelled from the Kaliningrad area beginning in 1946. And I doubt that the women, children and seniors expelled there fought as German soldiers. Your generalisation and jugdement about entire ethnic groups reminds of the approach the nazis had. How much more in favor of the USSR could Stalin resolved the claim on Königsberg as he already did?
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  1205. it should belong to the Neanderthals!1!!
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  1206.  @NaomiDollxoxo  , can they mov it several times a day while "they are at work"? hmmm
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  1207.  @NaomiDollxoxo  , the whole video is a joke. Have you notive how often the pillows or blankets change during "one" Tuesday or Wednesday? Or is there already an app for that?!? ;-)
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  1208.  @NaomiDollxoxo , I don't care about mini cam apps - to be honest. One thing is obvious to me: that the story of cat and dog coming closer during one week is made up. During the scenes titled with e.g. "Monday" or "Friday" the decoration of couch or the flat changes several times. So if these "days" were made up, why shouldn't be the whole story with going to work and hidden cameras are not made up as well?!
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  1209. Winning what? Rubble and dead corpses laying on the street?!? If there is a God, he or she will agree: this is blasphemy!
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  1210.  @sergeicheremnykh9014  well, you obviously not smart enough to learn English, in order to write English comments under a English speaking video in an English comment section. I've learned Russian for 7 years - maybe you should start learning some foreign language. What kind of Ruzzian god is that who what support the killing of civilians, the bombing of theatres full of children and even the bombing of Odesa chathedral? You are truely a blasphemist! Ask some Russian babushka in the supermarket who can hardly effort the groceries how she finds your idea that money is not important in Russia. And than tell that to your wealthy oligarchs and luxury brands hungry rich. Many places on earth can be criticized for hypocrisy and double moral, but Ruzzia is among the top on this list.
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  1211. Prussia also owned many North German territories where they introduced standard High German as school language and suppressed the local Low German language. In France this practice of uniting a state by a unitarian language is still alive and minority language are suppressed or at least not protected.
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  1212. You will survive.
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  1213. What is Western Germany? Sauerland? Eifel?
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  1214.  @jorgeriveramx  I totally agree with you. I can't look inside his head, but he comes across as being indifferent.
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  1215. As a German some of the sentences remind of "I didn't know..." and "I was not political" and therefore have a bitter aftertaste.
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  1216. Free of democracy, free of true, independent elections, free of independent justice, free of uncensored media, free of the right for demonstration, free of opposing opinions, and sadly soon free of a generation of young men, sons and brothers... Free of so many things .... it truly must be one of the freest countries1!!!111!1!!
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  1217. I wonder what is worse: Western hippocrasy ... or Russian bombs?!?
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  1218. Did you already take your uniform out of the closet?
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  1219. exaggeration. Sure, there are a few unsafe corners - but locals would know thes corners and won't go there after 10 or 11 pm.
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  1220. It depends... first, the Afrikaans person has to talk slowly and secondly, if the German person is from Northern Germany and familiar with a Low German dialect. Still there is a chance that certain words are missed or some "false friends". But still I would think that it is likely that 50% can be understood and the overall topic, too.
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  1221. Somehow I missed the section in the video that the studies on milk were wrong , the facts about milk were false and therefore they LIED to the public. Maybe he should have talked about hormones and substances given to cows in the US which are not allowed in other parts in world and can be found in American milk.
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  1222. correct - the whole video!!!!!11111!!!!11
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  1223. Who really cares about Russian internal affairs and how they end?! The thing is that attacking Ukraine is not an internal affair, even though Putler wants to give this impression in his speeches.
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  1224. did someone understand why the nazis would have targeted e.g. the Altes Museum or National Gallery in the middle of Berlin?
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  1225. ​ @britingermany I'm not sure. The source seems to have member access only.
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  1226. How dare of them to buy and eat this rotten, western food according to unholy transformer recipes and not patriotic kasha 3 times a day!!1!!!
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  1227. how is the wheather in Moscow?
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  1228.  @Packetrackit  sounds good. I hope, the current conversion rate of the Rubel effects you not too much there.
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  1229.  @maxsaslt  I agree in doubting his opinions, but it is not up to you judging over his cognitive abilities.
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  1230.  @sovushka-solovushka  ist really depends - for some low income families there is not much left. But the average person does save up some money. The biggest problem for example in Germany is, with the saved up money you cannot afford to build a house or buy an appartment. These prices went up so much that it is impossible for many to pay for it even if they do it in rate payments over 20 years.
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  1231. Have a try ... but it is not about better or worst - you need to understand two things: - there is a large variety in styles doughs and shapes even between the various German regions - Germans have a close relationship with their bread. Quite often you can hear a conversation like this: A: "How were your vacation in Thailand?" B: "Oh, it was brilliant, fantastic sights, beautiful beaches, great wheater ... but no good bread." Bread seems to be the first thing Germans miss.
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  1232. The level of English he achieved is excellent! But making no mistakes at all, sticking always to the American pronuciation, using flawlessly colloquialisms and all of this as a self-taught person, never lived long time in North America ... plus the well shot images - I can see that it feels dubious for many. Well, maybe his videos are just very well prepare, his statements well scripted and the video well edited ... maybe, it could be ...
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  1233. Encom, so, when France makes this proposal then it's fine... interesting. Do you realize that one quarter of Germany is a post-communist state, too?
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  1234.  @WiewiurTV  I did not delete any of my comments. The culture of rememberance in Germany is sign of not trying to be stainless. The image you are creating is false from the beginning. The structural founds provided by the EU to the Eastern or Southern countries is hardly a sign of ignoring the structural deficits in these countries. BTW, the apes reading your comments here are still wondering what your point is ....
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  1235. The FR of Germany was founded in 1949 ... therefore Kaliningrad was no part of it.
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  1236. did Poland exist for "thousands of years"?
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  1237. I would be interested if you find out, when exactly this was supposed to be that Königsberg was administered by Lithuanians?! And if there is a source for this narrative?
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  1238.  @templecreations2351  yes, this the Lithuanian name for Königsberg. But it is common to have various names in different languages for the same city. For example the German city of München is called Munich in English or Monaco di Bavaria in Italian. The English name of Nuremberg varies from the German or Spanish version. But out of this you can not draw the conclusion that these cities were administered by England, Italy or Spain. Lithuanian are not the same as Old Prussian. Their language is related, but linguist distinguish between Old Prussian as a West Baltic language and Lithuanian and Latvian as East Baltic language. So there must be significant differences to divide them in two subgroups. Lithuanian and Latvian are obviously closer than Lithuanian to Old Prussian. That the entire tribe was "wiped out" is rather myth, maybe politically motivated narrative. The Old Prussian speakers were assimilated into German/Low German or Lithuanian speakers ... or were with time outnumbered. Against the "wiping out" story speaks the fact that there are written records from the language of the 16th century and later.
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  1239.  @templecreations2351  well, all this "ancestral" land claim is pretty nonsense to begin with. But if you go down this path you might also consider the Great Migration Period and that Germanic Goths might have lived there, too.
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  1240.  @templecreations2351  giving Kalingrad to Germany, Lithuania or Poland is not an issue on today's agenda. Raising this question in the video is only a rhetorical tool to get people talking about the annexed Ukrainian territories. Today mostly Russians live in Kaliningrad and it is part of Russia - I don't see any reason to change that. Of course, maybe in the future with the possibility of less military one should think about giving Kaliningrad tax reduction to keep the economy alive, or that they join the Schengen zone and similar things...
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  1241. I never knew that the US borders Serbia ... but the Pandora's box story should be told to Putler.
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  1242.  @tonihil  did the US annex the so-called People Republic of Basra as the 51st state?!
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  1243.  @tonihil  ... and this helps what to Ukrainian people being bombed?? Do you think, they feel less bad sitting in the cellar, when they know Russia bombs places in Syria, too?!?
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  1244. what do you do with a degree in history in Russia?! Being unemployed... He better should have studied propaganda.
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  1245.  @fdsfsdfsfd  woher weißt du, wer damals Flüchtling war und wer heute AfD wählt. Wenn der AfD-Schwachsinn wirkt, dann bei solchen Schwachsinnskommentaren.
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  1246.  @derunsympath  wer ist Ronny? Du?
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  1247. @station12a ... und was haben irgendwelche Wähler heute im Osten mit Leuten zutun, die bereits vor 30 Jahren den Osten verließen? Mal drüber nachgedacht? ... und was sagt die ganzen AfD-Wähler im Westen dazu, die die Masse der AfD-Wähler stellen?!?
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  1248. And seeing numberous apartments offered in Russian newspapers "for Slavic only" is totally normal and not racist at all!!1!!1! Sure!!1!!
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  1249. Don't you think, Ashkenazi Jews also lost pigment through mixing with the pale population in central and eastern Europe?
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  1250.  @Jewish_Israeli_Zionist  ... and those two "types" appear simultaneously among Ashkenazi communities ... or will you find the two "types" separatly in different regions? I'm just asking in order to understand your theory.
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  1251.  @americandream7291  how do they steal identity? Do they make a copy of your passport? Or do they come at night and manipulate your body while sleeping? Asking for a friend...
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  1252.  @americandream7291  for me it doesn't matter if they are converts or "real deal" - they are humans, they have their identity and they can be my friends, too.
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  1253.  @piotrcurious1131  this is a bit far fetched: Eastern Germany is not Ukraine.
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  1254.  @voidvector  I wouder where you would spot the "cultural divide"? personally finding it hard to explain to North Americans in Berlin where the former East and where the former West was.
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  1255.  @piotrcurious1131  yes, your storry sounds unreal ... I don't quite see the connection to the KGB and dark trads, especially not to todays East Germany. Even a minority in the GDR worked for the Stasi ... this was now almost 33 years ago - a significant part of this minority is already dead.
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  1256.  @piotrcurious1131  so, the 80 year old buddies of your ste father are busy on Facebook and secretly ruling the country.... well, interesting ... why am I expecting chemtrails and alu-hats to show up in the next part of the story?!
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  1257.  @voidvector  for your "observations" you clearly have to know what you have to look for? There so many accents and regional terms in Germany dating back centuries and only a handful words related to the 40 year division of two German states, I doubt that a foreigner will pick them up. Mercury-vapor, sodium-vapor or LED lamps exist in nightscape of German cities in varying ratios - to find out which street was in the former East and which in the former West will be a hard job ... or drawing the former state border by the distance to a tram or subway stop, you will be the right candidate for Germany's prime time show "Wetten dass" - where celebraties bet on extraordinary capabilities of candidates ... like blindfoldedly naming the colour of a pen by taste
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  1258. Well, that tells you a lot about the prefered taste of food and drinks in the US as well. If served and consumed ice cold (for Europaen standards ;-) ) things taste less or less intense at least. In comparison, I've noticed when I had American guests in Germany some food flavors (like cheeses or pickled fish) were just too intense for American taste buds.
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  1259. It is quite ironical that the Kaiser is waving with his hands in the video all the time when in reality he had a crippled arm.
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  1260. What does that mean?
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  1261. You don't like Ukraine? just don't invade there!
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  1262.  @indycoon  have you seen USA invading Ukraine? Or is that stuff Solowjow tells you every night?
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  1263. Obviously drinking coke is more important for many Russians than the question if Ukrainians have drinking water in their bomb shelter.
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  1264.  @Yanichar85  and Little Red Riding Hood ate the wolf!!11!!!!!
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  1265. sadly, this is the spirit of the people and consequently of the video.
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  1266. ?? what else than European English would be??
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  1267. Poles and Germans are often closer in their behaviour than they think.
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  1268. maybe because German speaking people lived there over 600 years and called it home?!?
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  1269. where do you see swastikas in Kiyv? I guess, you have no problems believing Russian propaganda ... so why do you care about rotten-western-fascist products at all?? Wouldn't it be more patriotic to only eat Russian produced kasha 3 times a day?!?
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  1270.  @ПавелНестеров-е5я  I can freely breath air without Ruzzian explosives in it here. I don't have to worry about being patriotic toward Putler. I really don't want conditions people in RuZzia have to cope with ... and nobody deserve the conditions RuZzia puts people in Ukraine into.
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  1271.  @ПавелНестеров-е5я  🤣🤣 Heaven forbids!!! I'm happy to live in a country which has fortunatly overcome imperialism, fascism and communism. In RuZzia you would have all three at ones.
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  1272.  @ПавелНестеров-е5я  I'm not sure if I would call Putler and his clique mafia. no way ; I would like to live in Ruzzia right now and become cannon fodder. I'm also disappointed from the ordinary Russians showing so little emphaty for the suffering of their "brotherly" people in Ukraine.
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  1273. ​ @HotelPapa100  I never heard of. But I've noticed that in Bavaria it could be "der Butter" while rest says "die Butter".
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  1274. ​ @doktorpapago4305 well said. Today it makes more sense to share history than to divide it.
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  1275.  @smerfdzikus2334  welcome to the 21st century! Sad that only gain your Polishness by living and expressing anti-German sentiments.
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  1276. When I went to school in Germany ... like 40 years ago... pecil sharpener fixated on the desk were much more common. I haven't seen them in a while.
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  1277. As a German I would say there is food culture but Germans don't make such a fuss about certain food items.
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  1278. and exactly this nucular and imperialistic Russian threats is what makes country after country to join Nato.
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  1279. there about 2 million people of Polish descent living in Germany. And Polish migration to Germany has a long history already starting in the end of 19th century and working as seasonal workers in German agriculture was already thing in the 19th century, too. Though I would say after a generation they are merely integrated and often assimilated.
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  1280. I always fancied the idea of a Europe of the regions. Making Europe stronger it takes power from the centralized nation states. This is an opportunity and chance for regions to step in, which feel pushed around by central goverment like in the case of Catalonia. I think you can already see that that regions like South Tyrol or Alsace feel better off with no such a strong arm of Paris or Rome. Though, if that simultaineously means a "United States of Europe" I'm not conviced yet.
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  1281. What is "liberal" for you? The opposite of conservative? Or the opposite of regulated? Or individualistic?
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  1282. To be honest Leavenworth is not a German town, but a Bavarian inspired theme village ... and Alpine Bavaria is what American tourist would expect and that's what they will get. Any other regional German architecture style or regional cuisine would rather diaappoint expectations.
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  1283. ... and the word "wonder" ;-)
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  1284.  @emo122009  Actually, researcher say that every European is a mix of three major migration waves between 40,000 and 2,000 years BC. Certain ratios and markers might be typical for certain region. The time that Dutch German or Frisian as ethnicities developed is in comparison relative short to tell much differences in this DNA mix.
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  1285.  @juicyfruit4378  Though it sounds that you just wait for a Dutch or German to be allegedly rude to you in order to be give them a lecture. I couldn't walk through life like this...
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  1286.  @juicyfruit4378  Why are you taking part in an public discussion when you don't care about the impression of others and their POV? With asking this rhetoric question, your entire comments illustrate that there is a good chance that you not reflect the rudeness of others but might be the cause of it.
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  1287.  @juicyfruit4378  why do you?
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  1288.  @juicyfruit4378  obviously, you are not smart enough to realise that you answered here to my initial comment. 🤣 Making assumption about my intelligence and telling me what to answer and what not under my own comment comes across a bit inpolite and is not what I call directness.
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  1289. Worse time? I guess you have a completely wrong idea.
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  1290. The video is not really helpful in clarifying things, but ... DNA, "House", ethnicity, language or nationality are fairly diffent thhings and don't necessarily rare related or are congruent.
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  1291. What so wrong about a snow covered village? This is just your perception. Most places in Western and Central Europe don't experience hardly any snow anymore and would have a romantic view on it.
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  1292. I would disagree. At least you don't tip as much as a waiter. Maybe round up a little at the bar. I think, in Germany is more the mentality: you tip a waiter because he or she brings you the drinks or meals to your table. With a bartender you do the work of carrying the glasses, so you will keep the tip.
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  1293. congrats!
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  1294. Well, this is not the idea to stay forever ... just helping those people in a crisis and hopefully going back soon to family and friends to a peaceful Ukraine. Ruzzia's approach is much different: they want to weaken Ukraine and end it's existence. They also want to fill up their demographic gap with Ukrainian - this is also clearly the goal of kidnapping children in Ukraine and bringing them to Russia.
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  1295. The final sentence in the end was exactly what I thought ... of course, it is not nice to be asked by a taxi driver about Putin while vlogging... but it is definitly worse have been living in a cellar for 4 weeks now with shortage of water, food, heat and mobile connection while outside bombs are dropping.
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  1296.  @dumigamez397  yet he did this because of the media politics of his goverment - not because of alleged russophobe tendencies of foreigners.
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  1297. Unfortunately the Russian state attacks other countries and civillians in very gloryless ways.
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  1298. The Vikings came to England 1000 years ago that is like 40 generations. If the test is right then it must be some more recent relative probably from the American fathers side.
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  1299.  @ahimmeroder5817  brown butter and bread crumbs is more a Northeast German way of serving aspargus. No wonder, Max knows it from the Berlin region. You would find this with other vegetables like caulifloer or black salsifies there, too. The bread crumbs can also be replaces by shaved almonds if you want be more fancy. In my northestern region white aspargus woulde be serve with the brown breadcrumb butter, boilded salted potatoes and a schnitzel.
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  1300. God is with the victims, not with the perpetrators.
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  1301. ​ @jovosedlar3395  you lost me at "Black Pope" and "bare-handed Russians" 😂😅😂 I expect the next comment including lizzard people and a flat earth. I'm looking forward...
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  1302. where does this number regarding the closing of the Pergamon museum come from? Though I've heard this 14 years until 2037 or 2038 before, but the offical website of Berlin museum only mentions a renovation time until spring 2027.
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  1303.  @valerietaylor9615  I double checked only the south wing is closed until 2037 ... the rest will be reopened in 2027. I don't really know the rooms in the museum, but the south wing might apply to the famous Ishta Gate. With Germany constantly postponing the retirement age I will not even be a pensionist in 1938 who has enough time to visit every museum.
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  1304. a German here - do you want to read my history?
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  1305.  @cactusgamer2186  sorry to disappoint you: I was in no relationship with Mr. Hitler. Do you? He was already 30 years dead and Soviet troops threw the remaining ashes into a river. I did not build any gas chambers in Poland either. Did you build some??
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  1306. No, the old piece of Vandals tribal land and the home of neanderthals for millennia!!!!1!1!
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  1307. I can't see anything glorious about bombing entire cities to rubble and attacking their inhabitants. Well, maybe you have to be Serbian to find it enjoyable.
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  1308. The Holy Roman Empire was a very loose construct of hundereds of territories. That would mean little in today's Europe - since there is already a construct called EU with dozen of various territories and regions.
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  1309. ​​ @tomaszs-hq1ql to be honest, the nazis were only busy with their crazy war which took in all resources. In the beginning they finished up infrastructure projects already planned in the Weimar republic, but used it in their propaganda. But themselves they didn't build much. So if German infrastructure is still in use in Western and Northern Poland it is far older than 76 years.
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  1310. How many people have to die for this vanities?
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  1311. weel, someone needs to attack the fatherland in the first place...
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  1312. what is so deadly about it? Since it was part of the videos topic.
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  1313. What is Polish about it?
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  1314. if a nuclear war begins, you will be better off by being dead right away.
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  1315.  @GMäääN11  does this attitude of West Germans have historical roots?
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  1316. People worldwide are puzzled what drives Putler... but I think, it is more likely that alliens and lizzard people causing this mess than your explanation.
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  1317.  @iljenshumilin467  weird thoughts.
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  1318. The 8th person @6:30 had the clearest view on the topic. I don't believe in the excuses of coming back to mother Russia and destroying nazis - it is all about redistributing natural resources.
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  1319.  @FernandoHernandez-jb8ti  I wonder what makes him "a nazis"?
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  1320. I wonder what really makes the goverment "nazi" - or is it just a generic russian propaganda curse word?
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  1321.  @realeyesrealizereallies6828  WW2 ended 75 years ago. no nazi from this era is still alive ... strange bringing that up. the rest of the conspiracy theory rather sounds like facts from today's Russia.
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  1322.  @realeyesrealizereallies6828  let's say there are a handfull nazi grandsons - thar should be plausible reason to bomb entire cities to rubble and attack cities which are home to millions like Charkiv or Kyiv ... sorry this is just sick propaganda.
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  1323. Hail Putler!!1!!
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  1324. Did this Jordan Peterson write something about the German language? It is hard to find anything in this regard.
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  1325. Fun fact: In Europe people can eat ground meat raw not because it is made out of plants but because it is made out of fresh, controlled meat. Crazy, I know... but Europeans would not buy it packages but freshly from their local high quality butcher.
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  1326. Well, then Russians have a strange way to show their love. There is so little emphaty for the people in Ukraine being bombed and so much support for Putler and his crazy imperialistic ideas.
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  1327. Well, then Russians have a strange way to show their love. There is so little emphaty for the people in Ukraine being bombed and so much support for Putler and his crazy imperialistic ideas.
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  1328. I've never came across such a story that a German journalist writes about people in Russia having no food ... let alone several. Sorry this is pretty much made up. German journalists do report from Eastern Ukraine how people still staying there, sit in their basement with no drinking water or without electricity and little food while you can hear the Russian granates outside. These are the true stories that matter. Nobody feels pity or cares if you have to bend down for Coca Cola in an Sibirian shop.
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  1329.  @VforArt  Soviet times had been for more than 30 years now and there are multiple pipelines into Europe.
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  1330.  @VforArt  thanks for calling me some attributes ... this is always a good base for a fruitful discussion... I wonder, if it was ignorant to provide with the fact that there are multiple pipelines into Europe plus several in the planning phase.
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  1331.  @VforArt  I'm just curious, what I'm supposed to ignore here regarding Nord Stream 2?
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  1332. Russians also don't give a damn about people dying in Ukraine, I guess ... obviously, the main thing is if Pepsi is available.... Nicholas, maybe should question your RuZzian values?!
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  1333.  @subhankarbaral9236  at least the Ukrainians have a reason fighting for.
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  1334. really?
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  1335.  @a3b36a04  I could imagine this all well planned. Putin is not insane, he has a strategy and sometimes just waits for the best moment, when his opponents are in a weak position or involved in other things.
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  1336.  @a3b36a04  Do you know how that is for young Russian men - can they be drafted and send to Ukraine. And if so - what happens if you don't want to fight and kill Ukrainian?
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  1337. wow
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  1338. It could be in German, too.
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  1339. so, with the state flags of all federal states in the background the location is supposed to be only Bavarian?!? I think, Feli is already caught in her americanized expectations.
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  1340. Who is "you"?
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  1341. His nationality is clearly US - but he might Mexican by ethnicity.
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  1342. 50% ... it's pretty nonsense. 20% the most. some increases are related to to higher energy cost other are not and and the situation is only used by companies to implement a long planned price raise. Some price increase is also due to higher production standard, e.g. for milk. and some is due to the labour shortage Germany experiences.
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  1343.  @tahaak  it is hard to follow what you have done, since tomato paste could be also 0,69€ or 0,89€ at Rewe. Sliced ceese depends on the kind of cheese and the package size - but there are also packages for 1,79€. Cucumbers in winter are more expensive than summer. Milk is usually 1,15 € to 1,30€ now - but often from free grasing cows with pruduction cost now. Milk prices were on the rise since the beginning of 2020 when the milk price were at lowest in the last decades. I would rather trust official statistics and the German consumer organisation who mention 20%.
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  1344. why would they do this? you have to start thinking out of the RuZZian box.
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  1345. If you really want to get an overdosis of lies I would rather advice to watch Russian tv, especially shows with Solowjow.
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  1346. I'm not sure what to think of some Frankfurters warning people to visit a neighboring federal state ... it comes close to ignorance or arrogance.
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  1347. How many native Prussian Lithuanians were there and why would they loose their homeland?
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  1348.  @compatriot852  yet most Lithuanian speaking population lived in the Memel strip of the East Prussia district, this part which became part Lithuanian SSR. Why would the Russians systematically kill Lithuanians? This is not very well known...
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  1349. when was this? can anyone remember this ancient period?
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  1350.  @pedrojuangutierez3117  but if you look at it, it seems as short or similar period like it Russia possesses it now.
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  1351. well, this is exactly the narrative which fits Russian propaganda. Don't fall for it. and get a better a better job, when you earn less than some minimum wellfare.
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  1352.  @jeremyr7147  blaming the victims is exactly what you do: arousing social envy about people who had to flee their homes and country because of war. Have you had to flee your country before? Did you experience war? Have you ever been to Ukraine? Judging millions of people by a youtube video ... speechless.
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  1353.  @jeremyr7147  you are really slapstic. - I can not answer if you are still in school, have to do homework or only are a troll. Please decide for yourself. - I don't now why your groceries are so expensive in the US. Here in Europe it went up like 20 %, but also due to inproved standards and regulation. Well, food standards are fairly low in the US - so that can't be the reason - the US Finance sector is not very regulated either. But its your country, you vote for the people who make laws and regulation. - Putler is an imperialistic dictator and far from innocent and his stupid ideas already cost the lifes of 200,000 young Russian men - I don't believe in devil and sins - yes, you write numberous comments in a row - as you may notice I don't much soory for you, hence no tears for you today - I don't know you und if you wanted to destroy Russia. Please answer this yourself.
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  1354. What is "it"?
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  1355. who? the expats?!
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  1356. "necessary" is the keyword, he didn't even reflect.
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  1357.  @Beliy--Volk  ... and what would you do there? ... and for what purpose?
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  1358.  @Beliy--Volk  you don't have family who would actually need your support when you're dead? What has the "military forces of nowadays Ukraine" done to you? How does Kyiv'd politics impact your life??
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  1359. @ FYI: half a dozen of other users were as "creative" as you in this thread.
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  1360. @ priorities? It is tiresome and unfunny, when you read some comment under Germany related videos and everytime there is a handful of guy who post THIS same note after eachother.
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  1361.  @hannDreistZett  🥱😴
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  1362. Oh, poor Ruzzians!!1! Those evil Ukrainians sitting in their basements with with detonations outside and no drinking water will cause to make Coke more expensive in Russian supermarket!!1!!! How dare of them to do that during a power blackout!!1!!1!
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  1363. I agree with Potsdam which is nessled in park landscape with many small palaces and manors - though it could feel extensive to walk. Renting a bike will do you a good service (though sometimes there are some restrictions for not biking through baroque flower beds. The same goes for Magdeburg which has pretty green spaces along the river, which might be too spread out to walk, but perfect with a bike. The air raids of WWII did not leave much of the Old Town left, so "Altstadt" might be disappointing, but the Magdeburg Cathedral is truely worth visiting and the adjacent southern city expansion with it'd Gründerzeit facades, south of the "Old Town".
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  1364.  @FlatMax2  the latter is certainly the minority.
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  1365.  @FlatMax2  yet, it seems a personal experience with certain individuals and not really something to generalize.
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  1366. Nonsense
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  1367. ... maybe because Germany officially only has been existing for 150 years. Before it was Prussia, Austria, Bohemia, Sweden etc.
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  1368.  voskwy  is that how the PiS version of Putin calls it?
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  1369.  voskwy  so that is a party which wants a Polish king, but the party leader has a German name. Sounds dubious at the first glance...
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  1370.  voskwy  "Braun" sounds like a pretty German family name to me. This seems extraordinary in country where politicians usually are attacked when their grandfather had contact with Germans or stood on the "Volksliste".
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  1371.  voskwy  but the difference is: in Germany it is normal and never an issue between politicians and in an election campaign. BTW #1: Slavic surnames are all over the country - not just in the Eastern parts. The ancestors moved there for jobs. Often in the 1800's - some for temporary jobs in agriculture and stayed, but many also for jobs in mining or industry which were often in the West. The last big wave came when people where expelled from eastern territories after the war. Well, in this last case due to proximity the share of refugees was higher in the East and North than in the West and South, but still all over. BTW #2: in the Eastern part of Germany city names can be based on Slavic toponyms. That doesn't mean there was a Slavic city in every case. The urbanization and development to towns and cities happened when these region were part of German speaking dukedoms etc. If Berlin is based on "swamp" and Leipzig on "linden trees", it could just mean that settlers used the existing name of this plot of land, but drain the swamp or cut down the linden trees to build their houses.
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  1372. the conversation is a perfect example illustrating the cultural differences and in mentality between Brits and US Americans.
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  1373. So, how many did really apply for citizenship?
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  1374.  @yurypetrov9763  some foreigners move there for study and from central Asian countries, but that many from Western Europe or the Americas do it, I've never heard so far and applying for Russian citizenship would be even less. Why would they do it? Even if someone choose to reside in Russia, but why would she or he give up there Western passport?!? It is much easier to travel with it than with a Russian one.
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  1375. Seriously ... the biggest military conflict in Europe since WW2. Now, get your world map and look up, which of the countries listed are in Europe?!?
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  1376. could that be rather connected to Brexit - than Russia invading Ukraine?! Just asking....
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  1377. for foreigners the consunant clusters are confusing and that these clusters often only make a single sound.
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  1378. No, it is more this obviously observing type of looking. Often it's done out of curiosity and it's not a sign of aggressivity. Foreigners sometimes misinterpret this behavior. It could be sometimes eye to eye, but not so often. Its more like: you are passing by and they follow you with their eyes.
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  1379. 😂 is Solowjow telling this at prime time?
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  1380. Many westerners did not understand what a shortage economy is and how it worked, I guess due to the lack of own experience. They were often mistaken by empty shop shelves. In East Germany nobody had to starve, but not everything was always available 24/7 - not like today when a bakery has to have the full range of products until 5 min before closing and then 50% is trown in the bin. Sure western supermarkets and the variety of goods were overwhelming ... but still until today I don't feel pleasure shopping in an American supermarket were you have in 20 meters 50 variations of the same product.
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  1381. "100x more than Russia" - what kind of nonsense is this? prices on the gas station were high before due to the German taxes.
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  1382.  @newskooter6463  I you would stop smoking and educate yourself you would realize that biggest portion of the gas prices in Germany are taxes. And yes, in Moscow they don't pay German taxes, duh!
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  1383. If he had to struggle for life like ordinary Russians it would be a different picture.
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  1384. 😂🤣😂
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  1385. Excaliber, I'm not worry about the ordinary people of Russia. They should have enough of their own produce and not drinking coke is not the worst thing which could happen. I'm sympathic with the people in Ukraine who sit in basements without proper drinking water and little food while outside you can hear granates. What happend to the "ordinary people of Russia" - why is there so little emphaty for the ordinary people in Ukraine?
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  1386.  @Wild-Siberia  whos grandparents?
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  1387. Always good to compliment one's employer.
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  1388.  @vladimirnikolskiy  who is "you"?
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  1389.  @vladimirnikolskiy  interesting. There is a city with at least 166 millions?!? Wow, newer heard of it! So far I thought, Tokio is the biggest agglomeration with 37 millions and thus half as many as in my country. So how is your Japanese coming along?
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  1390.  @Yusheesan  NATO is an military defense organisation - not an economic community: this would be the EU. Apparently wages and GDP are higher there that in Russia. Why don't you start to learn to read yourself, especially data which broadly and publicly available.
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  1391.  @Yusheesan  in Russia oligarchs can comfortably go shopping (though they do in London anyway) the babushka with her average pension can't do it. Better being a NATO member in peace than without and Ruzzia coming and bombing your factories into rubble.
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  1392.  @Yusheesan  who cares about the US? And not realising that Ruzzia and Putler are messed up and calling everybody who mentioned it as russophobic, plus starting some whataboutism.... just does leave much hope for Russia. Many of the people really deserve the unpromising situation there.
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  1393. "Россия за мир" is not very convincing currently and comes across as hollow words and platitudes.
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  1394. what has the DDR to do with this? There are many stupid comments in this section - but this comment is definitly one of the most...
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  1395. Listen to the interviewed people gives me the impression the mindset of people in Russia today is even worst than in communist times in East Germany where I grew up. There the people had a clear understanding that they've been told propaganda by they leaders and the media ... and took it with a pinch of salt and repeated those platitudes with a twinkle in one's eye.
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  1396. all!11!11!1 Probably including you.
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  1397.  @Mynipplesmychoice  is that supposed to be witty?
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  1398. what about pr US si A ???2?
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  1399.  @dBarryTV1  but if you read it backwards there is (a) IS (surp) in it :-O
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  1400. Is it?
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  1401. You watched to much Ruzzian propaganda tv and have never been to the US. I'm certain.
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  1402. Disneyland applies to fake facades and fake materials ... though the residental population might be shrinking, Venice has still the real buildings from past centuries. It becomes rather a touristy open air museum.
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  1403. aparently, nobody knows about this Italian bread thing at the Unesco and it doesn't show up. While German bread culture was officially added by UNESCO to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2015 ... there isn't such a thing for Italian bread. Though in 2023 the Italian goverment made an attempt to list "Italian Cuisine" with the Unesco. Plus Neapolitan Pizza has been inscribed in the Unesco list since 2017. So, maybe you can discuss, whether pizza is bread ...
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  1404. I wonder which of the women were the"older lady"?
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  1405. The British pronucation of the German names has funny side effects: von Gerkan becomes a gherkin and Wowereit suddenly has a Wow-effect. To call the arirport just "Brandenburg" is confusing for German ears, since there is town and a federeal state with the same name. Berlin Brandenburg Airport or even Berlin Brandenburg Airport „Willy Brandt“ could be a mouth full - thus Germans usually name it by the airport code: B. E. R.
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  1406. Poor You. ;-)
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  1407. It is a very complex topic and probably it was not easy for Feli to squeeze many things in a short video. Germany is a very divers country with a lot regional differences to begin with. A lot of them existed and still exist with no connection to the split into two separate states for 40 years. Nevertheless, the division in East & West mainly exist in the mind of people and not so much in real things a tourist will recognize when travelling through Germany. Unfortunatly this video illustrates the division in the heads, too. Is not really done in a neutral position: it sets the Western part as default and standard and then mainly focuses on the Eastern part as the special case or exception. Where are the topics which discribe the West? What about that the East spend a lot of effort in this intergration process after the unification - in contrary to the West which did very little to integrate in a new united Germany. There has been little done to raise childcare standards to East German levels. In the West they often stick to old role models like women have to be housewifes. There was little effort to share federal institutions and therefore jobs with the Eastern states. In leading positions and govermental jobs West German men are over represented. Voting CSU is not a standard but just a Bavarian special case ... I know, Feli had to simplify many things - still I have to comment on a few facts: 1. there was not only one party in the GDR - there were 4 other smaller parties as well - but the politics were aligned with the SED 2. there was not only one car modell available in the GDR: Trabant. First, there variations of it like Limousine or Universal. Also there was the brand of Wartburg with its variations and cars produced in other countries of the Eastern block: Saporoshez from Ukraine, Moskwitsch from Russia, Skoda from Slovakia or even imported Western cars like Citroen, Mazda or VW Golf. 3. Watching West German TV or listen to West German Radio was not illegal - yet for certain profession it was not allowed like police or goverment employees. 4. in many rural areas in the West the population is declining as well with too few new born to keep up the population. 5. there are no ghost towns in Eastern Germany. There are a few suburbs where more people moved away and appartment blocks were knocked down. But those phenomena are familiar to the Rust Belt in the States. While East German cities sometimes lost 25 or 30% of the population, it could be in a few cases 40 or 50 % in the Rust Belt. 6. Leipzig didn't grow "a lot" - it creates this impression, because there was incorporation of adjacent suburb communities. 7. in this year's federal election the AfD was not second in all Eastern states: it was fairly the same as the CDU behind the SPD in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania, it was 3rd in Saxony-Anhalt and 5th in Berlin. 8. the vaccination rate is also below the federal average in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatine while Berlin is over the average. 9. 90% of the GDR population had access to West German TV broadcaster and radio stations and comsumed it reguarly. It's rather that many West German region didn't have access to East German media and therefore had little detailled knowlegde about the East. Besides this was already more than 30 years ago.
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  1408.  @melluzi  are you sure that Baltic tribes were the first who inhabited the area? Not people from the Corded Ware culture?! Or even Neanderthals?! Since Asians have more Neanderthal gene traces than todays Europaens China should claim it as "ancestoral territory" !!!11!1!!
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  1409.  @melluzi  I'm not sure if Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens are really different species, since they could mate and reproduce with eachother which they obviously also did.
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  1410.  @melluzi  well, the results of horses and donkeys have difficulties to reproduce themselves.
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  1411. @elusive apricity History is often a reflection of the present, often of the political goals of the present. To portrait the Teutonic Knights as brutal is often repeated as it fits the narrative of "the Germans" as the bad guys. But "killing and annihilating" everyone - as you claim - doesn't makes any sense, because it would leave the gained territories empty: without farmer to provide food and taxes to the Teutonic Knights. The Knights built many castles which was very costly. They couldn't have done this without an economic basis and with just empty land.
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  1412.  @Wonzling0815  well, a "translating job" sound rather like a precise work to me - whether it is a product manual, a firm presentation, a website, work documentions or specifications or interrogation at the police ... this should be done correctly ... how such a job is badly done everybody knows from weird manual coming with elelectronics made in China or Taiwan. After all a translator is not an interpreter.
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  1413. so we wait for these allegded EU countries to come with a plan???
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  1414. What is Polish about Kaliningrad or was in Königsberg?!?
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  1415.  @DubhghlasMacDubhghlas  according to your answer there is nothing Polish about Kaliningrad now and hardly anything in Königsberg, otherwise you would have named it. Of course, it was not always German - only starting from the 1200's. Before the area was populated mainly by Balts and before that surely some other groups like Vandals. And before that millenia by Neanderthals.
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  1416. you forgot to mention that the Neanderthals held the territory the longest!!
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  1417. no Budweis, no Giant Mountain, no Karlovy Vary and no Lednice Castle in the video???
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  1418. Rent and wages are also 5 to 10 times lower.
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  1419. What is it then?
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  1420.  @monkeymoment6478  I see it similar ... though there might a bit more to it. Being Viking seems hard to grasp and what the actual difference is to the ordinary nordic population of this time.
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  1421. So how much can you spend for food then every month?
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  1422.  @n.nowgorodl.gusakow5812  thanks. Many see just purely the food prices in Russia, but don't watch it in relation what people earn and have to pay for rent, therefore what it's ultimately left to spend for food.
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  1423. ​ @doublea1514 there are only two couples in video - this is not a statiscly valuable representation who lives where and how. This is just an impression of two party - by selecting these certain two you can easily manipulate this impression the video creates.
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  1424. ​ @m4rkscott your are right. It is intended as a comparison - but already the thumbnail creates a certain image.
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  1425.  @satan7710  which reason could possibly justify the invasion and devastation in Ukraine?!?
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  1426.  @satan7710  what kind of activity the US had in the 1990's and 2000's on the border of Russia in Ukraine?!? DPR and LPR are not a reason, but an occasion.
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  1427. And before that is was how of the Neanderthals which are name after a place in Germany!!!1@!1!!
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  1428. embarrassing.
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  1429. just watch the video!
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  1430.  @C2112-s7y  and how did the Balts invade this territory before?!?
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  1431.  @C2112-s7y  to give some more clues: the human species came from Africa to Europe ... and within Europe there were several waves of migration and all Europeans are a mixture of those waves, though the mixture might vary in its components. Before the Balts arrived on the shores of the BaltiC Sea other people already lived there with whom they mixed. The same happend with the German or Dutch settlers centuries later ... they graduately came and mixed agAin. The only very odd thing happend in 1945: all population had to leave ... and the descendents of your alledgely "indigenous" people live nowadays in Hamburg or Berlin.
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  1432.  @C2112-s7y  well, luckely there are some profound historians who research it already and nobody needs to rely on your suspicion.
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  1433.  @NilZed1  in Germany there is some rule of thumb in order not to cool out the appartment including the walls etc.: the temperature outside equals the minutes of air out. e.g. if it is 5 degrees (Celsius) outside = airing out for 5 minutes if it is 15 degrees = 15 mitues is still fine
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  1434. "Schlangenschläger" makes no sense in German.
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  1435.  @ajs7249  Fubar, Fritz are not terms used in German. Kraut though is a German noun meaning foliage.
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  1436. I'm German and I would use 'mixer' and 'blender' like in English. "Rührer" would be rather a word my grandma used.
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  1437.  @miaemilia6462  there are 10 million US Americans of Polish descent - that doesn't mean that this many migrated.
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  1438.  @niag1268 , does it really matter in a urban context and in real life that one side of the street is in Manchester and the other belongs to the Salford administration?
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  1439. it was part of Germany until 1945. did you watch the video?
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  1440.  @joe-ob3se  I know. Though "Prußen" is a German term, "Old Prussian" the English equivalent. Those Old Prussians were assimilated by the German speaking majority of the population.
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  1441. what do you miss in Poland what you can't buy?
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  1442. where does Russia border Germany?
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  1443. Well, there you have it: the proof that Russian feel superior.
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  1444.  @lek8630  just ask User FW if it was a joke!
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  1445. That is a wild theory.
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  1446. Maybe Berlin has a name with Slavic based name ... but this Slavic village had maybe 370 inhabitants and was unlike the city of 3.7 million of today. The ownership for names is really farfetched.
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  1447. well, the comment is hard to follow...
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  1448. Warmia and Masuria would feed the "former German" theory.
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  1449.  @yiobs12  I also know in German "polnischer Abgang" - do the Polish leave.
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  1450. When was the Kalingrad region Slavic in history?
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  1451. 🤣😂🤣 ... and plagues will come and children will be eaten by the devil!!111!
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  1452. the town is serving a cliche and it serves it well. What is rather weird when people actually born in Germany and would know it better, also play this cliches because they think, it is expected from them.
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  1453. Foreigners are turtle f*cking transformers, arn't they? Solowjow would be so proud of your comment!!11!!!
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  1454.  @julijaku3020  exactly: Соловьёв, Владимир Рудольфович
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  1455.  @julijaku3020  I thought, he is your hero? You pretty much sound like him...
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  1456.  @pathet11cc  I didn't know the term vatnik before ... good to know. thanks.
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  1457.  @julijaku3020  obviously you are not familiar with the style of sarcasm and connected signs in Germany.
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  1458.  @julijaku3020  which Galkin? the chess player, the hockey player, the football player or the ski jumper?? But certainly I'm not a fan of Führer Putler!
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  1459. Actually not, in reality a complete replacement of million of people and therefor a lack of tradition and a broken identity.
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  1460.  @milosvojinovic5710  who knows - since there are no Prussians left - they got assimilated. There were stlill speakers of old Prussian left in the 1800's and records exists - but this language was not Slavic at all, but rather similar to Latvian an Lithuanian. Or is this going to be some new Putin-like talk: Latvia and Lithuania never existed and should be return to mother Russia by some special operation?
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  1461. Maybe the reason is history and tradition... though I highly doubt there is much Lithuanian root in the name of "Kaliningrad", Sovietsk" or "Swetlogorsk"
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  1462.  @coliukedo  guess what, when you switch your Google settings to German, the German names are on Google Maps. And the same works for Polish, Spanish or Dutch...
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  1463. Less laughs but bitter envy in the Ruhr valley I would say.
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  1464. before the German time it was not called East Prussia.
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  1465. Paul, there is also a tendency to teach more Americans English at schools and universities in Central Europe with the regards to the larger population of the US, the economic power and the big influence on media and pop culture.
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  1466.  @mweskamppp  äppelwoi should not be fizzy and therefore is different than cider.
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  1467.  @mweskamppp  I' ve never seen German Äppelwoi in England.
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  1468. Putler is doing what is expected from an aggresive, imperialistic dictator. I guess, Ruzzians deserve him - the pity is just that ordinary civilians in Ukraine suffer because of his weird ideas.
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  1469.  @Wild-Siberia  spying on fishing spots?! ;-)
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  1470. As a German it is interesting, and odd at same time, to see that so many Russians talk bad about Gorbachev. In Germany he is admired, almost like a hero - making the overcoming of communism in East Germany possible as well as the German unification ... thanks to him the revolution and transformation in East Germany was without voilence and blood shed.
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  1471. have you ever checked what you want to possess there?
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  1472. Sure many town names are based on old Slavic terms - but not all ancient (western) Slavs were automatically Poles. I wonder what Czech or Sorbians thinks of this all-Poles-approach you can read in Polish comments so often? Even if the name is based on a Slavic term for "resting place", "hawthorne shrubs" or "arrow-shape hill" this could be just toponyms descibing the landscape situation and doesn't necessarily mean there was a CITY when the name came about. And if a certain king or duke really FOUNDED a place should be also questioned. Often settlements existed much longer, but a certain duke build a fort to manifest his claims on the area. That's how it worked with forts or castles in medieval times - they were a built power claim. Undeniably the major urban development in this area and the growth of towns when the majority in these area spoke German and this often for 7 centuries. This referring to ancient tribes and terms sometimes reminds of the narratives of the n*zis: who claimed the Goths were Germanic and live on the banks of the Wistula river and therefore these lands should be "German". With the slight differences that these narratives existed 80 years ago - and the others still pop up in YouTube comment like here. Some property arguments based on ancient word roots seemed farfetched, as if an Idian would write a comment that Gdansk should be actually an Indian city, because he can recognize a Sanskrit root in the name.
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  1473. who?
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  1474. Where is the connection between Russia's war in Ukraine and egg prices in the US?!?
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  1475.  @feedupamerican.7146  I can't see any connection, since American chicken are not fed with Russian wheat or Russian coke. Price increase, inflation could have had totally other reasons and are not related to the war. In Europe some prices for eggs and dairy increased in connection to higher energy prices, but also due to the raise of enviromental standards and standards for animal husbandry.
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  1476.  @feedupamerican.7146  Just to be clear: I can read - otherwise I could not answer to your comment. But in order to read about any connections you have to write them first ... not afterwards. To be clear on another thing: Putler is not responsible for the pandemic! You gave away a clue yourself how little connection to the war in Ukraine there exist by stating that prices had been rising for four years. The war in Ukraine just lasts one year. I live in Germany an egg prices have been increasing by ca. 10 % annually for years and that before and after the begin of the war. There was a steeper increase in March 22 but the curve flatten soon after in May 22 and is now in the average range. I guess, it is easy to blame some sanctions for the own unlicky situation but the reality is less black and white.
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  1477. define "cold"?! Not interactive? Unfriendly? Quiet? Shy? Not talkative? Emotionless?
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  1478.  @Airborn777  open to what?
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  1479. and it's called 쾨니히스베르크 in Korean, which makes it a part of...
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  1480. Because they already paid with land.
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  1481. was it really the seed? or rather one sticker on the planting pot?!
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  1482.  @maskaliki  (East-) Prussia (outside the HRE) was just used by the Brandenburg rulers to achive the title King (which they could not do within the HRE). This title brought more power and influence. So East Prussia was more a vehicle than the centre of the action.
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  1483. 🤣😂🤣
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  1484. Some people believe in self determination in which state they want to live.
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  1485. I also noticed that the German term "Kombüse" for ship's kitchen probably derived from these stoves. Thanks.
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  1486.  @alexgainsborough4921  well, then 40 million people live in a parallel universe or are just an illusion!!1!!11
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  1487. Have you ever heard of the term "assimilation"? That is a process not unusual in half a millennium. Btw, people who lived there in the 13th century have been dead for 800 years - whether they were Prussian or German speaking.
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  1488. do you know what an expat is?
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  1489. 1001 - genau mein Humor!!! :-))
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  1490. Did Poles found these cities or rather Pomeranians, Silesians or Kashubian? ... and the names today are a Polish version of the West Slavic originals.
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  1491.  @Noname-xl8ve  But in Germany it was a long process ... and this momentum for a unified Germany was born out the refusal of aristocratic society and for civil and democratic rights. People didn't wanted be subjects of a Bavarian king or a Saxonian duke any longer and hoped eith a unified Germany they could become citizens with more rights. This movement started in the first half of the 19th century and rebellions and reforms in Poland were recieved as inspiring ... beside the civil rights in France.
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  1492.  @Noname-xl8ve  did I say that? Quite the opposite. I just explained that the people in the various regions didn't felt necessarily as part of one uniform nation ... but they were eager to overcome the numberous small kingdoms and the remains of the feudal system.
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  1493.  @Noname-xl8ve  and many migrated also to Germany....
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  1494.  @Noname-xl8ve  apparently they felt not as connected to the Polish "fatherland" as you described.
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  1495.  @Noname-xl8ve  I don't get the connection to the topic?! Is in your opinion Berlin an middle-eastern name? Or would you find the same indoor toilets there?
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  1496. is this a Freudian slip: Russia = Crime?
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  1497. You are divorced before married? 🤔
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  1498. The catholic king of Poland demanded that a vassal becomes protestant? Is this likely?
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  1499. Where is the connection to the video and what kind of conspiracy theory is Deep State?
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  1500. ... yes, otherwise the ruling Lizzard people in Germany would have pushed the UK to the egde of the flat earth until it will fall off into space!!1!!11!!!
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  1501. Yet, relatable Valerie is German, too.
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  1502. @4:00 the dried raisins shown are not (Zante) currant, because those are made from red grapes while those in the video are made from white grapes. Currant and Korinth (the place Zante currant came from) sound very similar, so it is very likely that the confusion of the two species came from.
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  1503. What was their name in ancient Polish? And was it a city back then?
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  1504. @Jadexplores, I hope, you noticed, that there was not a single sec showing Berlin in this video.
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  1505. Did you watch the video at all?
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  1506. If Russia bombs every neighboring country into rubble the problem will be solved: nobody will be left there who could join Nato.
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  1507. well, even after decades of capitalism, people in Russia earn a fraction of the saleries and pensions in the US.
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  1508. What was Polish about Danzig?
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  1509.  @VodarM  the history of Danzig is more complex than some Polish black-and white narrative. Thus Danzig was even not "just in Poland". It was part of Royal Prussia before it became part of the state of Prussia. Royal Prussia was an autonomous territory under the Polish crown, but not a part of Poland proper. To give you an example: the King of England is also the head of state of Canada, but that doesn't mean Canada is in England or Britain.
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  1510. that is strange! Around the corner in Germany butter is currently 1.5 Euro and eggs 2.5 Euro.
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  1511. Outside toilets have been hardly existing in rural areas in Germany since the 1980's when sewage systems were finally widely established there.
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  1512. Interesting, I always associated nougat with nut flavor - so apparently this doesn't have to be.
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  1513. * the Bavarian equivalent in other region you would rather find a Kräuter-Quark mit Knoblauch (herb curd cheese with garlic)
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  1514. everything fine ... except people die in Ukraine - among them also young Russian men.
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  1515. I've never heard of the Göttingen theory. And I doubt researching would help...
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  1516.  @wolly4u  to be honest, you pretty much sound like local patriot - rather caught in your bubble. You came up with the idea of doing better research on the topic: why don't you provide sources or links where one can read about the Göttingen role on modern standard German? At the first glance it is not quite obvious what kind of influence a few scientists - especially natural scientists have on the local pronunciation of an entire city or region. BTW, the special "st" or "sp" pronunciation can only be found with people of an older generation, probably born before the war ... and therefore you need to lucky to find such a person.
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  1517.  @Siegbert85  interesting, though it makes sense considering Bismarck went to school in Berlin.
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  1518.  @wolly4u  you are lecturing others to do better research with providing any logical evidence for your claim nor any source where one can do this research. I've just told you my impression that having the so called sharp s in "stolpern übern spitzen Stein" can hardly be spotted among younger generations these days. I didn't say that younger folks speak without local accent.
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  1519.  @evo8power228  or why not moving to Britain?!
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  1520.  @evo8power228  yes, there are too many rights. But don't count on me.
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  1521. I don't see no use to split the continent , especially from a Central European point of view. Excluding the Europaen part of Russia is odd, too.
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  1522. Could it be the pitch level which is different from language to language?
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  1523. My home region in Germany had its own Low German dialect which is almost dead by now. It started dying out after the war with a lot of refugees arriving - coming from the former Eastern territories who spoke different dialects. So people who were born and grew up before the war (like my grandparents) learned and sometimes used it - but I don't feel like I'm missing out not using it, because there is almost no-one left to use it with. This generation already died out. And a language needs to be spoken and used - otherwise it is just some sentimental folklore.
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  1524.  @corinna007  Magdeburg. Though in the city itself the process of people switching to Standard German started much earlier (with exeption of the harbour workers who apparently still used Low German until the 1950's). But in the rural are it was much more common until WW2. Magdeburg lays on the Elbe river and west of the river it would be called "Eastphalian" and east of the river it is a Brandenburg dialect, which in this case is influenced by Dutch settlers. So some words are different to neighbouring Low German dialects but resemble Dutch* words. *) Dutch like in the Netherlands, not like Pennsylvania Dutch.
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  1525.  @corinna007  I remember until the 1990's in weekend edition of the local newspaper there was one page with Low German stories and anecdotes people sent in. Then in the 2000's it were not current texts but from archive. And since 2010 this page doesn't exist anymore. That quite illustrates that the generation who used the language, would read the page or sent in texts is dead by now.
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  1526.  @добрыйдед-м1р  maybe swearing fidelity to a Russian ruler in 1762 worked like a referendum in Russian occupied parts of Ukraine in 2022 ... not totally freely.
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  1527.  @ahonako4487  you are certainly also beautiful but it is hard to judge since you have the infront of the face.
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  1528. How much do Eastern politicians know?
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  1529.  @barteosz86  But do you realise that yesterday's pupils in Poland you talk about are also Western politicians of today?!
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  1530.  @ГалинаМакарова-к8ш  how do you, how life is in Europe? From Russian propaganda tales on Russian state TV? Btw, nobody freezes here, has not enough to eat, stopped showering, has skin diseases or fleas ...We don't have sex with turtles or are transformers - despite all the nonsense Russian TV tells you every night.
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  1531. Because Poland was moved to the West after WW2 after the war as well.
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  1532. Ruzzia, Ruzzia, over all !11!!
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  1533. What has Lithuania to do with it?
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  1534.  @Julio-io9hm  are marxism and leftism movements based in Judaism?
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  1535. what are "real bakeries"?
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  1536. what was Slavic about Königsberg? Could you have seen or hear this allegedly Slavicness??
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  1537. invading and bombing another independent country is a war. If Putler wants to start a special operation against neonazis he could within Russia first.
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  1538. Not the Northern part of Germany in total - only this part which is the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein today.
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  1539.  @Lykyk  a hierarchy is not a numeric value which can be set off.
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  1540.  @purplemashine9122  though what does it mean you wrote?
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  1541.  @rasul407  I doubt, there is google translate for old fashioned dialects.
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  1542. There still foreign reporters around - but some get arrested, as just done in Jekaterienenburg.
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  1543. Germany is already your neighbor.
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  1544. As a German I shower every other day. I have an office job and don't physically demanding work outside. Many people have such shower habits.
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  1545.  @mdsouz4  not sure - your body resets at night during sleep with changing the body temperature and sweating ... whether the AC is running or not.
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  1546. Since he don't understand Russian tv (it is probably for the better when you see what Solowjow screams there every other day) , it can be only this what his partners and her family and friends tells him. It rather show how this propaganda is already ingrained in the common population.
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  1547. Protesting for what? To finish destroying the country and killing people in Ukraine?!
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  1548. So far I did not see eucalyptus trees withstand German winters. Some grow rapidly for a few years, but then a few weeks of stronger frost kills them off.
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  1549. A senseless endeavor is describe in German with "Eulen nach Athen tragen" (lit. carrying owls to Athens) while in British English it is: carrying coal to Newcastle. Though I don't know an American equivalent. Waiting for an unwatched moment in Germany they would say "die Luft ist rein" (lit. the air is clear) while the coast is clear in British.
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  1550. "Wer die AfD whält, ist wahrscheinleich ein Alter Mann aus dem Osten..." Dies kann der Wahrscheinlichkeit nach gar nicht sein, weil zwei Drittel der AfD-Wähler im Westen wohnen (ca. 4 Millionen) und ein Drittel im Osten (ca. 2 Millionen) . Denach ist die Chance unter den AfD-Wählern einen alten Mann aus dem Westen zu finden doppelt so hoch wie aus dem Osten. Mag sein das die AfD anteilig im Osten besser punktet, doch wohnen im Osten viel weniger Menschen. Dadurch spielen diese politisch kaum eine Rolle wie auch bei anderen Dingen. 2017 ist die AfD vor allem mit den Stimmen aus dem westen in den Bundestag gezogen, weil diese in der Lage waren die 5%-Hürde zu überspringen. (Nur) Mit den Stimmen aus dem Osten hätte sie es nicht geschafft und wäre draußen geblieben.
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  1551. In there any source of these legends, that the burghers wanted to be part of Poland? Why would German speaking protestants want to become part of a catholic Polish speaking kingdom?? Or was the Polish crown much weaker which would resulted in more personal or economic freedoms for those burghers?? Isn't it rather so, that Polish protestants moved to the East Prussia territory, especially to the southern part?
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  1552.  @jaset362  so, why not learning from history then and offering the Kalinigrad folks lower taxation, when accepting a Polish admistration?
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  1553.  @jaset362  you definitely don't know how a city work's. It is an urban settlement with real people living and working there.Those people don't vanish suddenly after 1255 and don't exist until they suddenly speak Polish for 2 years in 1454.
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  1554.  @britingermany  American Guy in Germany ( https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanGuyInGermany ) makes also video about his experiences in Germany. He sometimes sounds German to me ... maybe he adopted the melody of German... (?!)
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  1555.  @zorglub667  well explained!
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  1556. What was Polish about Danzig before 1945?
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  1557. ​ @iForgored numbers are more Polish than German, really?!! I would think, both languages use the same Arabic number system. For me a city is made of it's inhabitants, it's architecture and it's cultural traditions. And when the majority of a city spoke German over centuries due to its autonomy and privileges than it means little what language a king spoke in a distant capital.
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  1558. I bet Silvia Sommerlath never has been to Königsberg, since she was born in Heidelberg - just 1 year before Königsberg was annexed by the Soviet Union.
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  1559. P-Russia ha, ha, ha! maybe it is actually pr-US-si-A Think about the name!!!!11111!!!1!!!11
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  1560.  @sasapejn5743  Don't insult Darwin's monkeys in order to publish your letter-theory! Sorry, that is just nonsense. Period. I hope, you understand these words without switching or dropping letters.
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  1561.  @sasapejn5743  I have no connection to this territory - I couldn't care less taking it from some Russians. I should rather protect this territory of the comment section from spreading some nonsense theory like yours. If you would search just a little bit, you could easily find out that the name derives from an old Baltic word for a body of water and has no Russian/Slavic origin.
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  1562. did you turn off your heat and enrergy supply yet?
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  1563.  @ARAKAWA00  I see, probably in one of the many countries in Asia (except South Korea and Japan) which can't deal with sanctions against Russia or feel to fancy for it...?! ;-)
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  1564.  @ARAKAWA00  I find it hypocritical to judge nations for only partly sanctioning Russia ... from a part of the world which does not put sanctions on Russia at all.
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  1565.  @SirHeinzbond  so you mean American news are more dramatic and sensational. BTW, (okay, times are changing) but in the past the first German broadcaster ARD was often closer to the SPD while the second German broadcaster ZDF often showed a CDU perspective.
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  1566. maxsaslt, this fear of invasion in Kaliningrad just showcases the mindset of it's inhabitans fed by their daily dosis of Ruzzian propaganda. The really scary thing about it is: the same type of guys would support a Putler invading Lithuania with the simple reasoning like "yeah, before they invade us!"....
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  1567.  @ahonako4487  Yes, this stuff Solowjow & Co. are screaming on Ruzzian state tv is so wicked and absurd - it is really hard to wrap your head around it. Only sad, that so many ordinary Russians fall for it.
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  1568. I guess, those poisonous Western values are democracy, freedom of speech, indipendent justice, free elections etc. RuZzia is indeed a place removed from those poisons.
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  1569. How can the appartment cost $ 700, when the average Russian pension is about $ 200?
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  1570.  @HFddHFddHFdd  what is this "Чушь" about?
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  1571.  @HFddHFddHFdd  can google translator look in your head and explain me why you wrote this?
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  1572. this gigantic ground-level parking lots - taking up nearly 50% of the project area are totally off. Even if it is preliminary redering - it illustrates the not sustainable, wasteful approach of soil sealing. This might be the norm in car dependent and extensive North America, but raises eyebrows in dense and environmentally conscious Europe.
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  1573. As far as I understand, 1 out of 4 people in Georgia is a refugee due to conflicts fuel and escalated by Russia. It is not only that Russian military invated parts of Georgia - It has a broader impact on Georgian society. And I can image that those pictures, memories and traumata surface when Georgian ppl watch the news of Ukraine.
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  1574. The landscape you grew up shapes your aesthetic perception, what you favor etc. There are visual impressions, smells and sounds connected to memories, which come up when you encounter it again and therefore there is an emotional bound. This is normal and I think, everyone feels this way. I went to England last autumn, to the North and London and found the differences extreme ... when it comes to prices, but also the state of urban spaces. I was wondering, if the same differences exists in Germany? Is it like Munich and East Germany?? Also what I noticed: green spaces, parks and gardens were very well kept in London, but sometimes badly maintained in the north. That was remarkable since I remembered England as place with a lot of appreciation for such things.
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  1575. Russia attacked a neutral Ukraine. Fact. Nato didn't attack a state in Eastern Europe. Fact. There was no agreement that forbids Central and Eastern European countries to apply for membership in the Nato and therefore there was no violation. Fact.
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  1576.  @Григорий-Старцев-97  there was a verbally discussion during the Unification process of the two German states that Nato troops will not be stationed in the East, meaning East Germany. But it is not up to the German administration if a completely independent country like Estonia or Hungary can join Nato or not . Actually this is pretty logical. The only points to discuss would be that nowadays Dutch or Belgian troops are occasionally use the rather large and remote East German army grounds for their training purposes.
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  1577.  @Григорий-Старцев-97  where exactly are missile directed towards Russia?? If you listen to Russian tv where Solowjow repeatedly, publicly and openly screaming "Let's nuc Berlin and Warsaw!" then you know who really has an aggressive mindset.
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  1578. 🤣😂🤣 ... and than they will eat your children"!!!111!!11!
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  1579. neo-Nazi in Russia - how could that be?!? Is Putler not saying they all and only live in Ukraine?!
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  1580.  @benitocarbone2123  🤣🤣 Russia historically hardly had access to it and now it is supposed to own it...
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  1581. For 2 years?
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  1582.  @wonderfalg  sorry, this is just nonsense: Hochdeutsch doesn't have it's origin in Hanover. Hanover people switch from Low German to a language close to the written standard in the last century with very few dialectical nuances. The English never possessed Hanover, rather the other way round: the kings of Hanover also became kings of England (meaning one person had both titles/ functions.
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  1583.  @Wild-Siberia  US Americans just don't care what happens in a small town in Siberia.
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  1584. what RuZzia currently does in Ukraine is not very glorious. Ordinary Russians should be ashamed...
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  1585.  @MrBushel-rw9fc  imperial dream of who?
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  1586. Maybe someone has learned from the Russian policies of the last decades to destabilize neighbouring countries....
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  1587. ​ @apocrypha1439y who said, that someone is not human?!?
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  1588. @Julian: which Nato troops are fighting in Ukraine?!?
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  1589. I wonder , if everything was so clear from the beginning why was Poland involved in the construction of the Yamal pipeline from Russia?!
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  1590. it is really scary how homophobia is used as a propaganda tool in distracting and scapegoating in this senseless war. there are so many similarities between Solowjow and Göbbels.
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  1591. so, being clearly hostile, aggressive and imerialistic against neighboring contries as RuZzia does is better than any hypocrisy in your opinion?!?
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  1592. the crusaders built a castle ... the town was founded later and took the name from the castle nearby.
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  1593. and this is an old piece of the Funnelbeaker culture!! and and even older piece of the Neanderthals!!!!1111!
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  1594. the GDP would be no criteria for me ... because it depens what you can effort from it in this country.
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  1595. May I ask: Are your non-German friends international or just Brits?
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  1596.  @jonathandavieswales  interesting.
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  1597. I would have expected Felicia mentioning the traditional Oktoberfest parade with a lot of traditional Bavarian bands and costumes and from other European areas. I've never been there, but it is usually broadcasted on German tv, or at least parts of it.
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  1598. Did Angela really literally "invite" refugees? That's new for me.
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  1599.  Beech  Alena obviosly changed her comment, so my reaction doesn't make sense anymore and I was not certain, if hers was satire.
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  1600.  Beech  Alena obviously changed her comment, so my reaction doesn't make sense anymore and I was not certain, if hers was satire.
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  1601. these are just names for the same city. Btw, it used to be common to use Danzig in English as well.
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  1602.  @radhouze2554  It is not so obvious to me. There was a Polish duke who gave the order to built a new fort in the 10th century. But people already lived there in a settlement before, which where most likely Scandinavians, Baltic Prussians and Slavic Kashubians. With the 12th century more and more German speaking folks settle there. I don't know where you have the information from "founded by Polish"? Sure the Polish kings tried to extent there power sphere there, yet it was a merely German speaking city over centuries. Some sources even say in the 17th century it was the biggest German speaking urban agglomeration of all, with more people than Cologne, Hamburg or Vienna. And there you have it: in English it is called Cologne, Vienna or Munich - despite the official names today being Köln, Wien or München.
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  1603.  @radhouze2554  have you any source or proof for your quote? With the same logic someone could claim the name Gdańsk was just created to disguise the Danish or Prussian origin of the city's name. Please have respect for the city's history and that internationally established city names existed for centuries.
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  1604.  @connor240298  I was wondering the same. I'm glad that Manchester can make the change and grow ... but second city in the UK / England?? what happend to Birmingham in the meantime?!
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  1605.  @richardwills-woodward  you are basically saying the population of the urban agglomeration of Manchester outnumberd the of the rban agglomeration of Birmingham in recent years? But the actual city is still smaller, isn't it?!
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  1606. Warum nicht Sprüh-Bier oder Sprüh-Schnitzel?!
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  1607. Did it? How would that be? East Prussia was often backwards and agrarian in comparison with the rest of Germany.
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  1608. I can imagine - a place for everyone. There are certainly "special recreation" camps, formely know as Gulag. There are probably possibilities to be alone with oneself, without social noise in "special rooms" and to feel every day ... of 8 years. Even celebrities do it! ... like Nawalny etc.
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  1609.  @ОльгаМин-п6е  I've only travelled twice to the European part of Russia and I found the visa and travel restrictions offputting, especially that you could not spontaniously discover the country but had to proof in advance where you are on which day and where you staying. Maybe this has change meanwhile?? If opposition of protesters are send to a "labor camp" I imagine a Gulag- Maybe it has a different name nowadays - "special accomodation"!?
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  1610. Do any Poles live there?
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  1611. Which half of the world took up arms against Russia? Maybe in a parallel universe.... I wish half of the world speak out against Putler more clearly.
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  1612. What is in Omsk?
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  1613. What is Polish or Lithuanian about Kaliningrad?
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  1614. I doubt that Tova helped with the butchered pronuciation of Herman Schützercrantz, who was probably also imported from German lands, because his family name means 'shooter's wreath' (or ' ... garland) in it.
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  1615. Well, I guess, many get offended and don't take it as a joke. Since starting a conversation with a stranger with a joke is rather regarded odd in Germany.
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  1616. Are you part of the royal family?
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  1617. Did Ukraine join the NATO? Did I miss something or is this alternativew history on a parallel universe?!
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  1618.  @shahrahman4368  maybe I know the back story very well. Zelensky never joined the Nato, nor did he offically applied. However, if sovereign countries decide to join the Nato in the past, this is no reason to attack and bomb another sovereign country (namely the Ukraine) as Russia did. Starting your narrative with "the West" is more a sign of a conspiracy theory than a comment based on actual facts.
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  1619. Ich kenne das von meiner Großmutter, doch da gab es weiße Eiweiß-Wölkchen oben drauf.
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  1620. yeeez... Prussia is called Prussia because the territory is called Prussia - and the Hohenzollern used the chance to gain the title kings in Prussia, which was the highest title for them. All the rest is fairly overdone.
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  1621.  @xTheUnderscorex  this is all spilt milk, they got assimilated and their decendants live today in Berlin or Hamburg due to the nearly complete population replacement after 1945.
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  1622. It is old Neanderthal's land, nothing else!!!1!!111!!
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  1623. I do agree with Feli that their is something about Europeans that say share - at least in Central Europe I have the feeling. People might speak other languages than German there is something in common in their ideas, mindset and customs even Dutch, Danish, Czech or Hungarian is their mothrer tongue. On the hand, the US house settings Feli showed @15:00 I don't find desirable: houses are so close next to eachother; the front yard is often bigger than the back yard and is just lawn and driveway and house fronts are dominated by garage doors for several cars.
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  1624. Really? reparation based on speculations about 6 generations ago?!? Really?
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  1625. what does that mean?
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  1626. It is as simple as this: sympathy is usually with the victims and not with the perpetrators.
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  1627. Backfired on who?
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  1628. You know who don't care about people dying in Ukraine and infrastructure being destroyed? It is foremost Putler who gives orders to invade, attack and bomb. He doesn't even care for a whole generation of young Russian men being cannon fodder with 200,000 already dead. Presenting "western" media as the cause for this war is truly hypocritical indeed.
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  1629. where is "there" and what would it have to do with the topic?
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  1630. can you?
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  1631. ​ @TheMichaelK , zu Zeiten Luthers und davor hat man unter Sachsen das verstanden, was man heute als "Altsachsen" bezeichnet - ein Gebiet, was heute ungefähr Westfalen, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt beinhalten würde. Wenn Luther etwas war, dann gebürtiger Mansfelder. In seinem Geburtsort Eisleben muss zu seiner Zeit sich der Wechsel vom Niederdeutschen zum Mitteldeutschen vollzogen haben. Ähnlich muss es auch in Wittenberg gewesen sein. Die Grenze zwischen beiden ist langsam nach Norden gewandert. Auch Halle war im Mittelalter noch niederdeutsch. Wie Luther wirklich gesprochen hat, wissen wir nicht. Es gibt ja keine Tonaufnahmen. Auch war die Situation als Gelehrter sicher eine besondere. Jedoch im Alltag und in seinem Umfeld muss Luther auch Menschen begegnet sein, die Niederdeutsch sprachen oder eine ostfälische oder flämingsche Version davon.
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  1632.  @TheMichaelK  mein Kommentar bestätigt doch nur deine Aussage, dass zu Zeiten Luthers unter Sachsen und sächsisch etwas anderes verstanden wurde als heutzutage mit der Referenz auf das Bundesland Sachsen. Oft list man ja diesen modernen Mythus: Hochdeutsch ist eigentlich (Ober-)Sächsisch, weil das hätte Luther gesprochen. Ob man in dieser Diskussion etwas als "Ostniederdeutsch" bezeichnen würde, weiß ich nicht, da sich in den letzten 500 Jahren auch Niederdeutsch sich weiterentwickelt hat und sich Bereiche verschoben haben. Heute würde man Ostfälisch zu Westniederdeutsch und Flämingisch zu Ostniederdeutsch rechnen. Manche unterteilen die Niederdeutsch auch anders und würden hier Südniederdeutsch gruppieren.
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  1633.  @TochkaTochkaZapaytaya  and therefore children in Mariupol had to die?
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  1634.  @chrisa4284  well, the are people voting for the AfD in Wuppertal or Duisburg in the West or in Straubing or Passau in the South. There is much more to integrating migrant and expats than a plain East-West generalization. There are many individuals with in Germany as weell as among migrants. I do agree that a situation in a young urban enviroment of an university city with many international students could be much different from a rural village in the middle of nowhere with mainly old people and young people moving out. I even see a change in Eastern Germany for foreigners. The people there experience much more tranformation processes than those in the West. For West Germans often nothing has ever changed and therefore they could be much more uncomprehending for foreigners question things, procedures, bureaucracy etc. while an East German might do it as well, because things haven't been like THAT forever.
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  1635. Relax until you're drafted...
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  1636.  @Александр-э8д2у  since when has Putler my number?!?
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  1637.  @Александр-э8д2у  I doubt that I'm going to burst, rather I need to puke when Putler is on the phone.
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  1638.  @ferzrrn2  but if annex a Crimea, a Donbass or two or some other external territory every 5 years you have an instant increase of population and you could keep up the overall poulation of Russia in the statistic ... Maybe that is the reason behind some "special agression" - Putler wants to manipulate the bad statistics?
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  1639. Are you also not against Ukrainians or people from the Caucasus?! One gets a different impression overall...
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  1640. sounds rassist.
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  1641.  @species3695  do explain your theory or stay with impression you are provoking so far.
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  1642.  @species3695  riddles and puzzles are not very effective in explaining one's claims.
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  1643. What is this whole coke thing about? Is drinking coke really that popular in Russia? I would not miss anything if my grocery store would run out of coke.
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  1644.  @ТристанГилэм  thanks. Here in Germany carbonated apple juice is the nations favorite ... followed by carbonated water and beer. That's way I'm asking. There are also local brands of coke, too, which might taste differently to CocaCola, because to Germans American soda is overly sweet. In the first frame Kostantin stands infront of a huge shelf full of "AlpenGold", which is obviously a German name, but I've never seen this chocolate brand before.
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  1645. but then apperently Ukrainian should change their language and culture...
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  1646.  @alexschusch7906  ask Putler why ... why they are denied to have their own language, their own culture, their own nationality ... and aparrently need to return to "Mother Ruzzia".
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  1647. ​​ @Alexei_1973 he largest immigrant group from Russia to Germany are Russia-Germans and their families. Those Russia-Germans are statistically the best integrated of all immigrant groups, mastering German, having good school results and gaining good jobs.
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  1648.  @Wild-Siberia  the title of the video often gives away the topic of the video: "... on life in Russia after sanctions"
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  1649.  @RealReporter  don't worry. It is just a fine line between telling a story around Daniel fishing and showing pretty pictures of Lake Baikal ... and him becoming a focal piont in a geopolitical discussion. There are chances in it, but certainly also risks.
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  1650. Kaliningrad was never German - Königsberg was! And before Königsberg there was no city there neither some Slavic population.
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  1651.  @antondavidoff150  where did you get this stuff from? If there was Slavic population in the area of modern day Germany, it was in the Eastern 25 % of the country - plus relativly few people lived there. That's way German speaking population moving in easily outnumbered and assimilated them. In central and southern Poland German speaking settlers were only in the minority and were assimilated and "Slavisized" there. These are processes you will find all over Europe, like anglesizing the Celtic population of Britain or Ireland. I wonder, if you write under videos about France that most of France is not French and Bretons, Flemish, Lorrainians, Alsatian, Basks, Burgundians, Catalans etc. got only "frenchazised". Anyhow the Old Prussian were no Slaves and they were assimilated in the German majority. Their descendants live nowadays in Berlin or Hamburg as they parents and grandparents were expelled from the Kaliningrad Oblast like the rest of the entire population.
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  1652.  @antondavidoff150  Do you think the processes in France were not planned by goverment, church, adminstration etc. ?!?
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  1653.  @antondavidoff150  sure identity is sometimes created and developed. yout pan-slavic undertone just reminds of Putlers idea of the "Russian world) in which not Ukrainian identity exists.
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  1654. what a nonsense.
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  1655. Some Americans guessed I'm South African (instead of German) by my accent. But I'm not sure If it is a compliment or rather worst. ;-)
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  1656. What about adding some witch or a wolf to the story?!
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  1657. "old capital of Germany" - what a nonsense.
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  1658. Alexander, are you Arabic-Russian?
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  1659.  @АлександрСтечкин-г8з  like freedom of speech, independent media, opposition parties, independent justice, no aggression Warsaw against neighbouring countries.... yeah Putler's Russia is really different today!
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  1660.  @АлександрСтечкин-г8з  Do you have Facebook and Twitter in Russia? And if so, are you going to be send 8 years to a Gulag in Sibiria when mentioning "Butcha" on these channels??
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  1661. Do you?
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  1662.  @beny1366  my mother didn't know you. Did you ask your mother?
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  1663. You remember the event? ... or you just once heard a hear-say rumor?
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  1664.  @volcano1868  I don't understand your riddles or gibberish. I'm lost in translation. If you want to convince somebody here, you have to explain your argument better and write more in a logical sense that someone can follow.
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  1665. how did they do this?
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  1666. Social Ghost is right :official sanctions and private companies pulling out of the Russian market are like apples and oranges ... two different things. It was the decision of those companies to pull out, shut down or rename - because they don't want to be associated with an aggressive, imperialistic war of Russia against Ukraine.
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  1667. strange! so why are the shelves full of these Western products and brands, when all the "good" patriotic, Putler supporting RuZZians don't need and buy those rotten western products?!?
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  1668. When I stayed in the US I came across the so-called "one-drop-rule" which I found very odd as a German and racist, too.
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  1669. have you been there?
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  1670.  @brianmiller5444  this is brackish and on the rise.
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  1671.  @gia2442  well, you can maybe go to a store or order in a restaurant, but you are excluded from conversation locals have about social and political issues. In the video Daniel makes assumptions about what people think about the current situation in Russia. The is hard to judge without having any clue of Russian.
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  1672.  @gia2442  so he knows what she tells, and this has to be good for the entire town and country?!
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  1673.  @gia2442  that is an assumption. And even though if they visit them he can't talk with them in Russian ans has to hope for his girlfriend to translate.
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  1674.  @gia2442  I doubt that he would understand much in a political discussion. I've learned Russian in school for 7 years and would struggle to engage in a discussion about political, social, economical or military issues. Though I would be able to shop on a market and say what I want or ask where the fish are from.
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  1675.  @gia2442  I don't assume he is lying itentionally. I just reckon, he just expresses his personal view and a very limited impression of the situation in Russia. To draw a broader picture he would need to understand more of the media and need to communicate with more people.
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  1676.  @gia2442  ... and don't forget what usually does day by day. Most likely he meets more fish than people on a daily basis, plus he films videos in English. If he would have a job where he constantly needs to interact with Russian speakers for 8 hours his Russian would be much better. The luck of Russian skills just illustrate how little interaction he has with Russian speakers.
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  1677.  @kiberburjui9608  how many states regogniced the illegal anexion? Are "Liberals" a synonym for people following international laws?
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  1678. Did the Sileasians or Pomeranians know that you will come 1000 years later and call them Poles? The "brief moment" of Germans lived in these regions were 7 centuries - a time span e.g. US Americans can't even imagine. And the fun fact about these comment about the alleged "Polish ancestry" of these regions is in harsh contrast with the fact that the new Polish administration in these regions after 1945 expelled nearly the entire population.
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  1679. 99% of the rest of the world would like to understand the conflict as well... but it's lacking reasoning.
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  1680. I don't get this comment - but there several like this one. If you derive from son X or daughter Y - what impact on a language family that would have? Language families are a concept made by linguist. What has a ethnicity to do with a bloodline? And has someone ever met an African Americans who said he is actually jewish??
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  1681. so, who owns it then? the people who live there and call it home?
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  1682.  @magisterhpp  no, I don't know your imaginary ruler - and thanks for the speculation about me: didn't know we knew each other that well.
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  1683.  @magisterhpp  a founder of a lineage is a social concept made in your head.
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  1684. A copy of Jaegers' memorial to von Steuben can be found in his hometown Magdeburg - errected in 1996. I have no information, where the house stood he was born - tough the oldtown of Magdeburg was heavily destroyed during the war. The church he was baptised made space for the main post office building in the late 1800's. This building still stands today (but is used as court house) and has an inscription marking the connection to von Steuben.
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  1685. Never heard this before and from own experiences actually dog owners in the US, France or Finland use commands in the respective English, French or Finnish. Though I've heard that amimal trainers in circuses especially working with carnivores like to use German commands.
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  1686. one has do realise that Russians really believe this and see themselves this way. They have no antenna for the way they treated and still treat smaller ethnic groups and nations inside and adjacent to their empire.
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  1687. I'm a German and used to live for a while in Brooklyn. I would say for German it's half an arm length distance while for Americans it would be a full armlength. It seems that certain Asians are standing even closer to each other. Once I've watch a video which was interesting and funny at the same time. It was a time lapse of an informal Japanese American business meeting with groups of both standing around and having conversations. While the Japanese tryed to move closer to their American conversational partner, for the Americans it was to close and they felt uncomfortable and move away during conversation. This again was to far apart for the Japanese and they moved closer again and so on. It fast motion it looked as the groups were dancing waltz together. :-))
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  1688. never heart of state of health shown in the whites of the eyes, though liver problems cause a yelloe tint there.
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  1689. Another reverse perspective as if the Ukrainian government started a war on Russia. Yeah, right!!!11!! ... the question is only in which parallel universe this happened??
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  1690.  @footisman2059  sure. that is the weirdest thing of this war: all this fake talking about "fighting nazis" while turning themselves into a new version of them.
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  1691.  @sharkstv4086  I doubt this - many Ruzzians support Putler who sees the country as superior.
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  1692. Olga left the biggest impression with the clearest mind on me. I would be interested how Poles react to this alleged russophobia?!
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  1693. I thought, it is more common to make dumpling from potatoes in Thuringia?
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  1694. I'm convinced Hildegard was on drugs from her medicine cabinet when she had visions.
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  1695. did you watch the video?
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  1696. well, this "western hypocrisy" is like poodle against the war related Russian hypocrisy dragon.
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  1697.  @edhiepitz  Invading Ukraine with the excuse of "fighting nazis" but care a little about nazis inside Russia and even employing them in some Wagner troops etc. or... talking about how they "care" for the Russian people, but then letting 200,000 young men die as cannon fodder. or ...how they want to "liberate" cities like Mariupol or Bakhmut by turning them into rubble just to name a few example...
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  1698. Following Putler doesn't seem very sincere.
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  1699. I wonder if Americans know that a cat is able to land savely on its feet when falling from big height?
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  1700.  @DJcyberslash  when the height is big enough and therefore the fall is not long enough to turn and land on their paws ...then maybe
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  1701.  @siyahbeyaz1914  so Russia is great in keeping the woodland "authentic" without human interfearance?
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  1702. "adopted the American system of education as in the UK" - what does this mean in real life for Polish pupils or students?
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  1703.  @nevergonnagiveyouup.9162  , you are totally wrong (similar to the video) : >Solidarity tax< is an income tax everybody has to pay in Germany. It goes directly into the federal budget with no intended purpose use given. When tax was introduce it was justified with additional cost of the unification expected. But actually this money went amoung others for the military expenses Germany had to pay in connections with wars at the Gulf or on the Balkans. Then there a federal program call >Solidarity pact< which gives subsidies to the East German States including Berlin to rebuild infrastructure or cope with depts. Just because the word >Solidarity< shows up in these two different things, people (like you) get confused and mix it up.
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  1704. They were assimilated in the population majority of German speaking people.
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  1705. They should send Putler to The Hague. He is life threatening, not brown sugar water.
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  1706.  @ctotam7839  what is the point of destroying the whole planet for a few hundred nazis? That is as insane as Putler destroying a neighbouring country in the search of nazi. He could have started to fight the nazis within Russia girst. No, instead he uses them for his own "special" aggression.
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  1707. I guess, the straight ...honest ...Eastern (Ruzzian) killing of people in Ukraine is much better than hypocrisy !!11!1!!111
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  1708.  @pokbo  why should I cry about hypocrisy? Who cares?
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  1709. It is the same in German speaking countries: "Brot" as a standard would be with a crust, but darker as a default. If you want the spongy bread you would ask your friend explicitly to bring "Toast Brot".
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  1710. ​ @ЗелёныйЧай-д4й  what is consequence of this alleged children in Donbass? To kill even more children in the whole of Ukraine?!
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  1711.  @MrSquuqs  "Eulenberg" is basically a field name - unless you are a local farmer you didn't came accross this term so far. Some ppl in Magdeburg have been dreaming of a tram connection to Ottersleben for decades. Such a future tram line could be extended to the facility. So far you will only get to Ottersleben by bus which could be easily extended to Intel, too. There is also a train and bus stop in the adjacent industrial area of Osterweddingen as well.
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  1712. How would you recognize it?
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  1713.  @Antares-mo6xh  well, the facts which are widely available to everyone like Wikipedia tell different facts than yours. Of course, the way history is told is often in regards to current political views. The interesting question is, who wants to benefit in Poland from this tale of a Polish Kaliningrad and how?
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  1714.  @Antares-mo6xh  The state of Prussia didn't change its name. It became part of a United Germany in 1871, but all of Germany is based on Prussian tradition. "Western Prussia" is a confusing term. As a region it means in the German use the area South of Danzig while "Eastern Prussia" is used for the area around Königsberg. What you meant with it, is not quite clear.
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  1715.  @Antares-mo6xh  are these documents issued in Königsberg? Or is Krolewiec a Polish exonym as mentioned before? For München the English name Munich or the Italian name Monaco di Bavaria exist, but that doesn't mean München is an English or Italian city. "Spreading Christianity" was just a tool in the middle ages to extend territory, conquer lands and to subdue so-called pagan people.
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  1716.  @RasenSchwanz  that is just some pseudohistorical propaganda. The original Baltic-Prussian population was assimilated into the larger German Prussian population.
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  1717. .... and then they happily lived ever after. The End. This so much the same story telling and narrative you accuse others of. You know what, why so few know about the alleged "massacre" because historians debate about if it really happened this way... it is known in Poland because it fits the national narrative and propaganda. BTW, not all Western Slavs were and are Poles. BTW #2, the Polish didn't own the Old Prussian lands either, he just had demands on it, which he could not proceed himself therefore he called for the Teutonic order. Would it really better for the locals if the Polish prince conquered territory himself?
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  1718. In a country where beating up your wife is not a crime but just a administrative offence ... and about 14,000 Russian women die of domestic violence each year ... it is only a small step to rape and shoot women in neighboring countries. There is so much rotten in Russian society.
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  1719. Or maybe someone makes maps today showing the 1000's to look very similar. Historical narratives often serve current politics.
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  1720. I wonder, if real Italian-Italian feed their family from plastic dishes? It seems to me that is more an Italian-American thing,
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  1721. 2,5 million could be right ... there is no record, because most of them were not Russians but Russia-Germans (Russian citizens of German decents). If entering the Federal Republic of Germany they considered as German citizen by law, therefore no official statistic exists.
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  1722. It used to be common to eat pig brain sausage in Germany. But with the outbreak of Mad Cow Disease in England in the 90's the usage of brain meat got restricted. Though you still will find traditional "brain sausage" (Brägenwurst) - for example at Christmas market in northern Germany - there is actually no brain in it anymore and they substituted it with other meat.
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  1723. funny comment by using "we" and saying " I don't speak for all of Germany" at the same time.
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  1724. Many German regions are mixed and have not only one denomination but also a minority of the other it will hardly possible to draw conclusions. Correlation is not causation. There are not data that people had name their religion or denomination at the polls. Besides the elections of 1932 were fractionated amoung 9 parties.
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  1725. true.
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  1726. " Jeenus lowseye" makes the Latin ears of the good old Romans bleed.
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  1727. I live in Germany and we would only be peel larger/ older Champignons found in the wild at pasture. Those bought in a super market are relatively small and tender.
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  1728. ... and Little Red Ridding Hood forced the wolf to eat the grandma!111!!11!!1
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  1729.  @WeiterinsVerderben-lm1rg  have you ever been there?
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  1730. If Russia wouldn't have this leadership with aggressive, imperialistic policies and crude propaganda, I would think, Russian as a language and these Russian minorities are a great chance for the Baltic economies to build bridges between the EU and Russia and open opportunities to enter the huge Russian market. But with the current situation I'm baffled.
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  1731. Former? When was this? In the 10th century?! So these are all 1000 year old wooden toilets?! 😂
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  1732. modern-day Kaliningrad has little in common with the settlement of 1255
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  1733. I don't get the pattern.
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  1734. Poutine tastes not very good, but by far not as bad as Putler's bombs.
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  1735. ... and the most mad one.
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  1736. how much can you earn with protests in Moscow? Do protesters get some money as well to buy a CocaCola?
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  1737. fan fact: in Germany white bread has the the image of being unhealthy. So some bakers sometimes cheat a bit by adding sugar beet sirup or caramel sirup to the bread in order to make it look browner.
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  1738. how can a pensionist afford these prices?
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  1739.  @Streleny  well, we don't know the grocery prices in China to compare.
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  1740. what is the meaning of "Królewiec"?
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  1741. what's in Salzburg? Mozart festival?!
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  1742.  @Freakadelko  How are you so optimistic? Without any Russian sign for an interest in ceasefire or retreat it looks more like ir will continue for years to come.
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  1743. I'm surpriced that fresh rue is unknown in the United States. Here in Germany, if you have a small herb corner in your garden you often have rue as well - it's fairly common.
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  1744. Who is this alleged German author? And where does Germany show leadership in the EU? Your comment rather sounds like conspiracy theory....
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  1745. 🤣😂🤣😂
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  1746. What does BNR mean?
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  1747. Where do you get free lunches?
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  1748.  @janusz4695  and this has to do with what? Do Ukrainian refugees get their food?
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  1749.  @janusz4695  and giving free linches is bad and a "fail"?
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  1750.  @pickleeggs3340  what have you done "in movies"?
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  1751. Why did you ask if nobody cares?!?
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  1752. ​ @davidroddini1512 what would be a Canadian-American?
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  1753. ​ @rabbiezekielgoldberg2497 😂😂😂
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  1754. Who is "us"?
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  1755. yes, and the old grandma ate the wolf!!!1111!1
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  1756. Once there lived Neanderthals and there closest relatives are Asians since they usually have about 4% Neanderthal traces in their DNA compared with an average of 2% in Europeans. So no Lithuania, rather China!!!1!!1!!
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  1757. It is not called KGB anymore.
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  1758. what about Russian planes and bombs on Syria? I didn't look as if they dropped candy...
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  1759. The list was little odd, since the were not all German, but Austrian (Falco), Swiss (DJ Bodo) or from the German speaking part of Italy (the first).
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  1760. The "problem" with Europaen bread is, that there is no such thing as a single "French bread" or only one type of "Italian bread" - but dozens of variations of various French und Italian regions.
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  1761. I wonder, how someone could be 16% German by ancestry?! So, one of your grandparents was German, but had a Polish leg? ;-)
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  1762.  @IanZainea1990  2048 - so that is 12 generations before you? I wonder if you have the exact records of these 328?! And one out of 2048 is such a tiny portion, that it is propably not error-free messurable at some doubtful dna tests.
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  1763.  @IanZainea1990  wow, that's pretty intense knowlegde of your ancestory. with some luck I would get 6 generation of my family together ... and there could be even some gaps. Being from Germany, I would not even be sure, if my great-great-grandfather would call himself "German" or rather "Prussian" or "Brunswicker".
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  1764. I appreciate that Max weares a new apron in every video.
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  1765. ​ @army_2692  I thought iPhones are produced in China? I don't get the concept of throwing them away...
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  1766.  @exilestudios9546  this is very unlikely.
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  1767.  @voyageur8208  you have to admit, that Poland gain lands with more infrastucture and industries compare to the territories it lost - a difference still visible upon today.
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  1768. Most reaction video have no extra value if the one who is reacting just makes "oh" or "wow". If it is a controversial video and a an expert clarifies or explains it adds extra value ... or if a local verified facts.
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  1769. senseless.
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  1770. but the descendets of those Baltic peope became German citizens.
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  1771. sounds like a story Putler would come up with.
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  1772.  @josefdolnik7862  one of the biggest threats for this world.
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  1773. it hugely also depends where you buy meat in Germany. A German myself I've hardly ever bought packaged meat in a supermarket ... I prefer my local butcher. Though there might be truth that Germans are the most price sensitive in bying food, which leads to the effect tha not the A+ quality of fruits and vegetables from France, Spain or Italy finds its way to German shelfs.
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  1774. So why would people bombed other people who are alleged the same?! What is wrong with Russians then in general?
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  1775. Well, that is sad to hear. But it is a bit ironical that they changed the name from Sieger to Seger. "Seger" but even more "Seeger" are far more common family names in Germany than "Sieger".
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  1776. The worst part about the US is not the imperial units - the scales are! Where Europeans use scales like 1:100, 1:50 or 1:10 knowing the plan is 100 times or 10 times smaller than reality, US Americans use 1/8''=1'0 (one eighth of an inch equals on foot) or 3/8''=1'0 or 3/4''=1'0 (three quarters of an inch equals on foot) ...WTF! Believe me, I saw them struggling with it.
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  1777. it illustrates the double standard and that the all this "fighting nazis" is just a Russian propaganda excuse to do what you want.
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  1778. I don't know for whom Putin and his clique tell this nonsense - but it is certainly not the reason behind the attack on Ukraine.
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  1779.  @user-g5xnx7gjqb  there are no Old Prussians alive. they dissolved in German society - as the former Slavs in Eastern Germany. While those Germans in Königsberg had to leave and their descendents now live in Berlin or Hamburg - most of the descendents of Leipzig are Slaves live in there descents still their. BTW - Berlin and Bear is a German based legend due to the similarities to the Germanic words. In realtity the Slavic root of Berlin refers to swamp.
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  1780.  @user-g5xnx7gjqb  I don't know where you got this story from? Did you created it by yourself? Coat of arms were created much later than a city name. So the flag of a city pictures an images of city's name - not the other way around, that the city was named after the flag. I don't know, in which Slavic language the word for bear is supposed to be ber? Pretty non-existent. It is broad consent, that Berlin derives from Birl which ment swamp in the local Slavic dialect. There is some
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  1781. ​ @Disorder2312  well, so far it is hard to recognize the difference between the Russian aggression and nazis.
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  1782.  @Disorder2312  but it should concern every Russian. Just saying: I'm apolitical and I trust Putin ... reminds of the Germans some 75 years ago saying: we had no clue what really happened.
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  1783.  @Disorder2312  I don't blame anybody of being Russian - to be clear. I blame those 20% of Russian citizens who are openly pro-Putin and the additional 60 % who are just "apolitical".
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  1784.  @Disorder2312  well, it is a bit odd replying to another person by calling my name ...
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  1785.  @Disorder2312  What? What are you talking about? ... well, yes, you were the first calling others nazis.
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  1786.  @Disorder2312  As I written before, Russian political elite, Russian military, Russian mercenaries and Russian propaganda acts in nazi behavior - therefore the alleged "fight of fascism" gets to a hypocritical farce and randomly blaming the victims of the conflict as fascists or nazis is just part of the Ruzzian state propaganda and in the end unsubstantial and meaningless.
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  1787. So, with less and less consumers in Ruzzia - the prices should decrease?
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  1788. With cheese it is truly France... Netherlands, Italy and Britain, too. I haven't seen much exceptional cheese in the East of Europe.
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  1789. aha?!
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  1790. 🤣😂🤣
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  1791. The Old Prussians were a Baltic tribe and spoke a language related to todays Lithuanian and Latvian. What would make them "Slavic" is a mystery to me?! Jiri, guess what ... Bavarians show the highest amount of Celtic gene traces and got germanized as well ... the folks in northern France on the other hand got romanized and became French ... that is just history. Maybe someone could argue even most Germans got germanized at one point...
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  1792.  @JT7967-j3q  Kalinin was at this time a more popular guy than some king. ;-) Honestly many names for the renamed places in the Russian part of former East Prussia have little in common with the former names: Schelesnodoroschny (Train city) for former Gerdauen (from a chief's name Girdawe), Matrossowo (Sailer's village) for former Gilge, Slawsk (Glorious place) for former Heinrichswalde (Henry's forest), Selenogradsk (Green city) for former Cranz (from Beach) or Sowetsk (City of Soviets) for former Tilsit (from river Tilse). Though Jasnaja Poljana for former Trakehnen is a translation of the Old Prussian meaning.
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  1793. ​ @Wild-Siberia  being on tourist visa, do you just use a travel health insurance? Or how does it work when you stay for so long in Russia with the possibility of going sick.
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  1794. how would they have ties? do you have any source or context?
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  1795. 75-80 cents for a dozen sound way to cheap: I makes you wonder about the standards how to keep chicken in the States.
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  1796. I wonder if people who get bombs on their heads - within or next to Russia - if Grossny or Mariupol - find it as "peaceful"?! I wonder if all the people who are killed or inprisoned just for having an opposing oppion, enjoy that "peace" on the cemetery or in prison that much?!
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  1797. There was no Bundestag during the Weimar Republic - the parliament was called Reichstag refering to the German Reich - while the Bundestag is the parliament of the postwar Bundesrepublik (Federal Republic) of Germany.
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  1798. why would these corporation have some interest in war ... it just makes it all more difficult. Those people who think otherwise, also believe in mermaids and unicorns.
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  1799. In the last decades rather the opposite direction is rather common ... leaving Siberia ... leaving Russia ... moving to the US. People like Daniel are just interesting because they are a rare examples despite the mainstream.
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  1800.  @internettrihard2955  or maybe eight or ten?
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  1801.  @ricardomafiosobelmontcassi734  what does "Fegelein" mean?
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  1802.  @frederike9371  I'm not questioning her choices - I refelected on the instrumental arrangements of her choice in order to be played by a bras band. They sounded not quite "round" sometimes.
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  1803.  @josecipriano3048  but did you know that traces they found of human settlements in South America are 4 times older than those they found in Portugal.
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  1804.  @TheKavebear1  not everything. The USA are nearly twice as old as a state called "Germany". The majority of buildings you see here today was built after 1880 and at lot of them after 1945. This could apply for the US as well. If you have sometimes a different impression then it is because of the mentality of the people. Those who were adventurous and wanted to start somethings new migrated to the US - and those who wanted to stick to traditions and were hesitant stayed in Europe.
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  1805.  @silenced-world  as mentioned above - in 1871.
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  1806.  @musagiyane1831 , I guess, there is no scientific base for the American idea of "races" - it is just some socio-political grouping. why and in which way, I can not answer. Everybody (if not a very remote population) is a mixture of verious gene traces. This applies even for "whites" - they are a mixture of different traces and backgrounds. In the U.S. this mixture is even broader.
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  1807. ...or to India!!1!
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  1808.  @danielsharp6731  thanks, but actually not quite as fanny as yours! ;-)
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  1809. Which DNA test can show a particular area within Germany?
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  1810. was there really a "city"?
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  1811.  @DJALEXNOWO  I would call it a settlemend and not even a town. Calling it even a city would suggest it was something like Rome, Cologne or London at the time.
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  1812. how can you butcher the name Zeiss, if this is the topic of video?
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  1813.  @Newsthink  that is just weird. well, maybe they didn't want to confuses the American customer with non-English pronunciation. However Carl Zeiss is not pronounced this way (as done in the video) because he was a real German person.
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  1814.  @noctilucera7585  it is a question of quality, freshness, handling, and foremost cooling.
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  1815. @Manonfatemiridere you forgot, .... ...that he made domestic voilence less of crime, so that the Russian surplus of women can be easier reduced by the already high dead rate of wifes. ... that he took pressure of the rental market by sending many young men as cannon fodder to Ukraine - who would otherwise start to look for their own apartment ... that he gave Georgian and Kazakh towns a boom by people leaving his paradise ... that he offert warm jail cells for the next 8 years for everyone who just expressed an opposing opinion publicly ... that he freed the ordinary Russian tv viewer from to much thinking by standardizing the Russian propaganda
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  1816. It is called "Ruscism" where the Russian state uses fascist methods and it is a characteristic of the "advanced Putinism". I find it interesting that scholars already came up with these terms in order to describe it.
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  1817.  @ZER0ZER0SE7EN  it could be a rather unfortunate slip of tongue as well, since he was obviously poking around for words.
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  1818.  @RJ-mz3co  and two languages hardly any American has ever heard of... Besides all Frisian or Sorbian speakers in Germany are bilingual and usually speak standard German as well. I was once in the archive of Staten Island. As the employee heard I'm German she got excited and told my about the exhibition they were planning about the history of German societies in the metropolitan area. She brought me some of the historic newspapers she already collected for the topic. Some had passages in German dialect, some in Low German or even the text was mixed with standard German. Trying to explain her the difference of "High German" versus "Low German" - I already lost her after a minute.
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  1819. it's a pity, that people know so little about the history of there own country. That makes them receptive for all kind of propaganda and if it is just calling Ukrainians "Small Russians".
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  1820.  @Kjartan1975  the destinction between Eastern states and Northern States seems blury to me considering that most of Lower Saxony is more southern than Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania. Even Berlin is a bit further north than Hanover.
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  1821.  @henner7371  says who? Opinion forming media of the NDR broadcasting?! Berlin has more North German brick architecture than Göttingen and is more North German protestant than catholic Vechta.
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  1822. ... and lizzard people will come raiding on chemtrails!!!11!!!11
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  1823. I wonder, if Strasbourg is a special case due to the fact that much of the city's growth happened at times German building regulations applied?
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  1824. DieHureBabylon might be right in the different beer drinking culture, but the rest of her comment should be taken with a binch of salt and not kaken too seriosly. Pinch drinking is a thing in Britain - and not so much in Germany. I don't know why that is, but some people in Britain say the night was good after 12 pints. Years ago pubs closed at 11 p.m. which triggered people to hurry up with drinking.
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  1825.  @berndf0  "lose Wurst" gibt es in Sachsen-Anhalt und Brandenburg - während "Tote Oma" eher in Sachsen und Thüringer verwendet wird. Hier im Magdeburger Raum ist Lose Wurst eher grau, kann aber auch in einer roten Variante (mit Blut) vorkommen. "Tote Oma" hat fast immer Blutanteile. In Niedersachsen und Bremen gibt es "Knipp" oder "Pinkel" (beide eher grau). In Westfalen findest du "Stippwurst" oder "Westfälische Rinderwurst". In Schleswig-Holstein ist mir noch keine Grützwurst über den Weg gelaufen. Ob es eine Südgrenze gibt und ob die im Westen weiter im Norden beginnt, wie du meinst, weiß ich nicht. Übrigens liegt München östlicher als Erfurt.
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  1826. What a nonsense! Young Russian men are dying because they are send (often badly skilled) with no reason to Ukraine.
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  1827. Due to Russia's aggression more countries joining Nato and frugal countries spent more on defense and weapons. Well done, Ruzzia!!1!1!!!
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  1828. @laimisabakas history is always a reflection of the presents: Russians are "zombified" and find excuses for the occupation policy - because if they would think otherwise, they would need to question the Russian politics of today.They want to do this step.
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  1829. The traditional social structure in todays Western and Northern parts of Poland was destroyed by the expulsion of nearly the entire population aka 8 million Germans of these region and the nationalisation of their properties. ... well, this was also done by the Polish communist administration... but this made a harsh break in traditions, social and ownership structure.
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  1830.  @kpharck  most of the German speaking population of Lower Silesia, Pommerania, Danzig or East Prussia switch with the reformation to protestantism. There was no de-catholism and Germanisation needed. That what you mentioned maybe applies for Posen and Upper Silesia.
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  1831.  @kpharck  many cultures and tribes lived East of todays line Hamburg- Hof since the end of the last glacial period. Many of them we don't even have records or ideas what they spoke. The Elbe Slavs was just one group of them. They got simply outnumbered by settleres from German tribes in the centuries which followed 900.... and consequently assimilated in the rest of the population. Gene-study based archeology made much progress in recent years. And it showed that East Germans showed 25% of gene traces from those Slavs ... and this is pretty much the ratio of these people the end of middle ages. The same applies for the Old Prussians which got outnumbered and assimilated. The POV of "Germanisation" and even "extermination" is a perspective which support a Polish national narratives. Don't forget there were also German settler communities in Southern or Central Poland over centuries who also got assimilated in the Polish majority of their surroundings. Do you also politicise this process?
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  1832.  @kpharck  there is a difference: with the westward movement of Poland by 150 km after 1945 there no traditional areas where a Polish minority would left within German borders. The areas which traditionally had a mixed population like the province of Posen, Upper Silesia or Western Prussia are all within Polish borders. The people with Polish descends are scattered all over Germany and are usually integrated and assimilated after the second generation. They or their ancestors often came for work. They don't form Polish speaking communities or cultural islands. The German minority in Poland still has some traditional settlements and areas where they concentrate.
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  1833. the anthem is from a total different period - with uniting the German speaking people by overcoming the aristocratic system of hundreds of small feudal entities, in limiting the priveledges of those dukes and bringing civil liberties to everyone ... the text has fallen out of context these days and only the last, third verse is sung today - not the line in video anymore.
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  1834.  @herculeskoutalidis1369  why is Deutsche Welle not a German broadcaster?
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  1835.  @herculeskoutalidis1369  how does this controlling works? Or are these just speculations?
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  1836. @1420, to bring your videos in context, it would be interesting to know the ratio: how many people you've asked and how many gave an answer.
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  1837. I wonder, why 50% of conspiry theories over Germany come from Polish commentators?
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  1838. @Noneof, Maybe the increase is in Poland more dramatic, Slovenia maybe was better even before.
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  1839. ​ @user-.....zvi4i have you seen street interviews with fellow Russians? Very interesting: 2 third won't answer at all or they say something that they are "apolitical". 1 quarter struggles not to use the wrong words or say their opinion directly. And the last 10% just repeat phrases say have seen on state tv or from Solojow like parrots. That gives a deep impression how "freely" you can express your own opinion in today's Ruzzia.
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  1840.  @user-.....zvi4i  what is a LGBT aggression? And what would have it or Biden to do with this video? Is this some whataboutism of you? And how do you know how many videos or interviews I've seen? I can tell you: I've seen many. Interestingly in interviews done on the streets of Ukraine people speak more freely, with more reason, sense and logic then the odd situations you see in Russia ... and all that despite the alleged "fascist conditions" in Ukraine. Honestly, there so many things which reminds me in Vladimir 's policies of Adolf not anywhere else.
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  1841.  @pgo9217  nobody said "Polish camps" here and in the video - other than you.
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  1842.  @pgo9217  yes, an example which is only kept alive in Polish media and by Polish politicians.
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  1843.  @jutrzenka7503  sorry, I'm not sure to which of my 4 comments you are replying to. Anyhow, I didn't see a comment with capital letters either.
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  1844.  @mypointofview1111  ...and Austria is next to Italy which is Southern Europe ... yeah so what? The term Central Europe has nothing to do with the Soviet block. Neither is the term Central Europe reserved for "victims". It is hard to follow your comment.... But just for future reference: I did not kill anybody - and clearly not for my ego!
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  1845. protesting against madness in Siberia?!? What?
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  1846.  @arsenasvarov1400  yeah, bombing civilians in Ukraine is mad indeed. But what should the international students have learned in Sibiria: how to mind your on business? how to not care what the state of Russia does in Ukraine? Or how to show no emphaty toward ukrainian civilians as long as my own mobilisation is not concerned?!?
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  1847.  @arsenasvarov1400  dudnik, why do write your stuff here publicly, if you don't want a reaction? Since it is hard for you to read and write long paragraphs, it would have been easier to tell it to your hairdresser and he would have agreed for sure.
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  1848. I don't get the point. There are so many places in Europe, where you have mud, empty houses and no shop left in the village. It could be in Belarus, but also in Scotland, East Germany, Latvia or Southern Italy .
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  1849.  @sovushka-solovushka  out of curiousity, the numbers for salaries you gave is this before or after taxes?
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  1850. @neo a lot of people do.
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  1851.  @snowsnow4231  you like genocide?
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  1852.  @snowsnow4231  just read your own comment, where you express the wish that there won’t be many Ukrainians left. This is clearly a call for genocide ... or you should better watch your language.
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  1853. I would also feel more save in a house with a roof and all walls in Russia than waiting in an Ukrainian basement for the next Ruzzian bomb attack.
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  1854. @Теле-вирус, ТикТок-война I guess, this applies to you ... sitting on your cosy couch.
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  1855. Unfortunately, nobody from the 10th century is alive to remember this. So people maybe just look at the last 400 and 300 years.
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  1856. or cheesecake.
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  1857. Rice pudding with overcooked fish doesn't sound very jummy. Though in my region of Germany a dish exists where a slightly sweet rice pudding is combined with a pan seared, spicy sausage - which is interesting because of the contrast in texture and flavor.
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  1858. I'm German and don't care about coke no matter the price. A Europe without war and imperialism is priceless.
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  1859.  @Protector_Bro  pretty much.
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  1860. there are more important things in life than coke - for example the life itself... or even democracy. Debating about the taste or price of coke feels so secondary to what concerns the people in Ukraine.
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  1861.  @Protector_Bro  this video is about sanctions and western companies leaving Russia due to it's war of agression against Ukraine. Those people in Ukraine sitting in the basement or bomb shelters for days without drinking water ... or with polutated drinking water due to Ruzzia blowing up a water damm ... they would like to have a choice what to drink, too ...and just want to have a peaceful life despite being born in a "wrong" place.
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  1862. What "western media" you are talking about? And lying about what? Here in Europe media reports about the devastations in Ukraine; nobody cares about Russian supermarkets and which name butter in Russia has. The EU hardly imports food from Russia. The only thing what hurt European market is that Russia stopped their exports of fossil fuels to western Europe. Plus the fact that Russia destroyed infrastructure in Ukraine which makes the Ukrainian production and exports of wheat and oil seeds difficult.
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  1863. Czechia might be not as big as Poland with just a quarter of the population.
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  1864. how many Poles live in Kaliningrad?
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  1865.  @loleklolkowski2197  98.9% of selected people, you visit with gun men at home?
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  1866. Einfach doof.
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  1867. Borat is just simple nonsense - not telling you anything about Kasachstan (... it rather tells you more about Americans and their behaviors) ... anyhow, it is logical that the writing makes no sense. ... even the Kasachstan scenes are obviously shot on the Balkans.
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  1868. It is a rhetorical question in the video, not a practical one!
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  1869. well, there is still a difference between reading some weird Ukrainian social media comment fantasising about the death of Russian children on one hand - and Ukrainian children sitting in basements experiencing Russian bombing in reality and on a daily basis on the other.
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  1870.  @Disorder2312  just read again... and think. One is verbally.... and the other is physically destroying people's lives and homes.
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  1871.  @Disorder2312  the internet and Youtube is full of hate comments ... but that doesn't mean that every single one of these guys attacks and bombs cities, schools and water damms. This needs more cruelty.
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  1872. Is it Cape Town in the video?
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  1873. Pretzels are already a very special regional thing and dipping it into something sound even rarer.
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  1874. If you are Russian you are your own enemy?!? I don't get it...
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  1875.  @lkbv464  are you writing unsubstantial comments to everyone? Go to work!
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  1876. Immer wieder stolpert man bei der Bahn über dubiouse Auslandsgeschäfte: da stellt sich die Frage, woher hat ein halbstaatliches Unternehmen, dass zum großen Teilen mit Steuern finanziert wird 2,8 Milliarden, um Arriva zu kaufen? ... und ob das im Zusammenhang damit steht, dass der Bundesrechnungshof zum wiederholten Mal kritisiert hat, dass es keinen Nachweis gibt, wo die vom deutschen Staat überwiesenen Gelder (und damit Steuermittel) bei der Bahn verbleiben oder verwandt werden?!
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  1877. the Eastern part of Germany joined Nato in 1999? I didn't know that! I wonder how that worked when Germany already has been united since 1990.
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  1878. ​ @msairshot7097  everything is better than to watch Putler's absurd propaganda tv. Unfortunately is has contaminated the Ruzzian brains and it will stay there longer than Putler will be in power.
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  1879. is "europhile" a bad word?
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  1880.  @fwnm  the AfD is not an East German party. Maybe they sometimes want to sell this idea. It's an all German party and could only enter the national federal parliament due to their votes in the Western part, where two thirds of there voters are located. With the votes of their East German voters they would have failed the 5% hurdle.
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  1881.  @florianmeier3186  that there was and is no migration to Eastern parts of the country is a bit your superficial observation from the outside. Asylum seekers are evenly distributed accordingly to the general distribution of the population. People with Russian, Ukrainian or Polish you might not even spot from walking down a street.
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  1882. what about New York Cafe?
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  1883. Envy?
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  1884. Very interesting video. Though butchering the simple common Russian word "bolshoy" undermines the expertise.
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  1885.  @andrewmckenzie292  does Russia mean "Wiking's lands" so why would they be not part of Denmark then??222??
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  1886.  @andrewmckenzie292  Ukrain is a souverain state and member of the UN. It can decide by itself our through is democratic elected representative whether it wants to be a part of EU, NATO, OPEC or what ever. Russia as a souverain neighbor should except those decisions.
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  1887. I can't make any sense out of it...
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  1888. Soccer started to get popular in continental Europe in the 1880's and 1890's - so football teams haven't been around for centuries.
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  1889. Obviously in the eyes of those who executed the expulsion of the German speakers these thoughts were irrelevant.
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  1890. There is a German saying: without cost there is no value.
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  1891. I was disappointed of his German considering the perfect German of his parents. He obviously knows some German and practiced reading his speech. That he has some German ancestry or is from a German royal "house" is not really significant, because those people are dead and can't speak with them. His life is dominated by just using English.
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  1892. are there anything "authentic" (people, houses etc.) left in Karelia?
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  1893. @Murehissani Murajan I only went from Kotka to St. Petersburg once and passed the area I would call Karelia: the landscape looked as if there were farmland and villages before, but now just woodland grows by its own.
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  1894. @Murehissani Murajan greetings back from northern Germany! I have friends living in and around Kotka. The grandmother of one friend came / was expelled from Karelia. She is a very talkative person with dark hair and told me this rather untypical features for Finns come from her Karelian background. I'm not sure if this plausible or just a story.
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  1895. ​​ @Wild-Siberia  at least try to start learning it. Can you at least read the letters and some signs? For an English/Spanish speaker Russian can be an obstacle, but many conjugation and declinations follow straight forward rules with less exceptions than in other Slavic languages. But if you don't familiarize yourself with these rules, you will never set a foot into this language. I don't how it would be if you start without grammar just to begin to speak it.
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  1896.  @Wild-Siberia  are your comments comedy? Well, the war in Ukraine is no laughing matter for me. If I'm allegedly in every conversation, than you must be in 450% of the conversations, roughly guessing. I wonder, why you write so much here publicly, if you don't want an reaction? The video at least gives the impression that you can't take part in a simple conversation with a market lady and grocery guy, let alone discussing politics or war fare.
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  1897. I not sure if those people are mentally ill. They just figure out they can generate votes at the polls with scare stories of Germany.
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  1898.  @azeca0025  what a nonsense! If Germany would have the same politicians as 1939 they would be 110 years old. Baerbock, Scholz, Harbeck or Lindner don't look that old ... and by far not that gray as Kaczynski. Maybe he still lives in the 1930s?
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  1899. ​ @martini604 have you been murdered before and write now Youtube comment as an undead from the afterlife?!?
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  1900. They are a little bit cheaper than in Germany but for people who dont even earn half or a third of the income.
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  1901. this alleged love for Ukraine is far from being obvious considering how little the Russian public shows any sign of emphaty for the people dying in Ukraine or living in rubble.
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  1902.  @omc912  sorry, but this is really cynical to say Russia wants peace -it just Ukrains fault, when Russia is attacking, invading and bombing in Ukraine on a daily bases. If RuZZia really would care for the lifes of people in Ukraine and for the lifes of Russian young men, it would stop these actions first. I guess you really have to be Russian to make this mental switch and seriously swop victim and aggressor.
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  1903.  @omc912  I also can a little bit understand the alleged "unfriendly" attitude of Ukrainians. Don't take it personally, but Russian often come across as loud, encroaching and ignorant. Walking towards strangers and expect them to speak Russian can also give the impression of being argogant and disrespectful to their culture and language, especially among smaller nations which had a history of Russians dominating them. Germans are not free of this behavior: often they expect every Czech to speak German and they approch people in Czechia like this... and I'm pretty sure there are numberous Czechs who hate it.
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  1904. @paper plane I have a hard time following your whataboutism... though one thing for sure: I have a problem with bombing civilians in Ukraine.
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  1905. well, that makes you wonder, why RuZZia doesn't let neighboring countries and people live in peace and tranquility?!
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  1906. you forgot to mention that the Neanderthals held the territory the longest, and the Balts stole it.
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  1907. ​ @carllong7165  how should the Balts got to the land witout stealing?!? Have you thought about it? Is there evidence that the world is round or can't you see it, to?!
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  1908.  @dingskydongsky  I can't see what is ridiculous about it. She describes a real current sentiment.
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  1909. The exchange rate at the monetary union was NOT 1:1 for the East German Mark - it was half - 1:2 ! The video is wrong in this matter. Only 4.000 East marks were allowed to be changed in 4.000 West marks. Well, I wonder, how long you can live from 2.000 Euros today. Everything else exceeding this amount were exchanged at the lower rate. With Eastern wages already less than half the amount of those in Western Germany you can reckon what kind of savings there were in the end of this process in the East.
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  1910. Russian law also "protects" husbands in this way that it is not a crime to beat up your wife - just an administrative offence. Yearly about 14,000 Russian wifes die due to domestic violence.
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  1911.  @krzysztofd9164  copper trader is one theory ... but actually his father side ancestors came from a Silesian village called Koperniki.
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  1912.  @tomaszjabonski4942  in Copernicus hometown Thorn the majority spoke German, especially in his social class of wealth merchants... and for sure in his administrative jobs he used German. The inhabitants of Thorn or Allenstein (whether German speaking or not) opposed the Teutonic Knights not because of the language or some nationalistic thoughts but because of high taxes etc. they had to pay to the Order. The economic conditions and the degree of autonomy the Polish king offered were more attractive.
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  1913.  @tomaszjabonski4942  well, some sources say so, that his father's family came from Silesia. I didn't make this up.
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  1914.  @tomaszjabonski4942  it is very likely that giving his mother's background and considering his social class that he belonged to the majority of the town who spoke German. His scientific work was done in Latin as it was common for the time. But he was not just a scientist, he also took on political and clerical tasks in various Prussian town. To do this work he also had to communicate in German. What kind of German that was is another topic. I would suspect that it was rather middle low German than modern standard German. How he actually spoke and what and when, we won't know, because there was no voice recording back then - only written documents can give some information.
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  1915.  @tomaszjabonski4942  would having an ancestoral background from Silesia be another problem for the Polish narrative of Copernicus?
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  1916.  @saucy743  They did it in former Eastern provinces of Germany. And still: how do you want to be claim that you are morally victorous, when you commit genocides as the enemy?
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  1917.  @saucy743  no? I wonder, what countless victoty statues ... like the one shown in the video of Treptower Park are about?!?
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  1918. I'm not expert - just some thoughts: German law currently doesn't allow dual citizenship (with some excetions). I think, you would have to give up your US citizenship in order to get a German passport. Then you might go back to the States and try to get you American passport back and have both in the end. This situation would be legal but sounds like a hassle. A lot of Germany-Turks do it this way: they give up their Turkish citizenship, get a German passport and then travel to Turkey to apply for a new Turkish passport there. However, the new German goverment elected in fall '21 promised to change the law and make dual citizenship much more accessible. As far as I know there is nothing official yet...but maybe in a few mounths... With German parents you are definitly entitled to apply for German citizenship. I guess, this consulate could give you advice. Though (I might be generalizing) I find the people working in those instituations bureaucratic: they are paid by the German taxpayer - so they often only care for German citizens - and you are not one yet. Their help might be limited; better getting additional help somewhere else.
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  1919. there was no Kalinigrad and no city in 1255. the Teutonic Order started to build a fourtress.
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  1920. It's kind of quirky to me or like an oxymoron to see square shaped, cubic blocks of casserole called "kugel".
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  1921. I think, it became out of fashion, but there older German sources or maps where you will find "Neu York", "Neufundland" or "Kalifornien" .
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  1922.  @mariusdufour9186  There are still 3 nuclear powerplants working. Nuclear powerplants could soften the transition but there not really helping in the long run with in a renewable strategy, because they are not good as a back up energy, since you can switch them on and off easily.
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  1923. There is a demographic problem in Russia, I guess. Too many migrating because they can't stand Putin's regime or don't want to fight for it. Too few children. Low life expectancy: men often die of alcohol... and women because they are beaten to death by their husbands or boyfriends. There is quite something rotten in the state of Russia!
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  1924. they are manipulated by lizzard people!11!!1
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  1925. Hedges on fiels are good against wind and erosion and for morning dew, but I'm not convinced what you can do with wood from poplars. It's of poor quality. I#m not even sure if use it for heating and the times when they made wooden shoes of it are long over.
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  1926. People who watched the video and wrote a comment 😂
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  1927. Why shouldn't you belong there and identify with Wroclaw?! The key to this identification is to accept the history of city and this is also large parts the history of Breslau. If you embrace it and not deny it (by knocking of German inscription) then it becomes yours as well.
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  1928.  @markszu  a city is made of its inhabitans and they were German speaking from the second half of 13th century, settling after the Mongolian devastation of 1241 - with German town law and a German mayor - no matter if the town belonged to a German speaking Austrian Empress or a German speaking Prussian king. The industrial revolution started in continental Europe and so also in the Prussian Province of Silesia around 1850. This was also connected to social unrest: "The Silesian weavers" was a theme in German painting and drama. This is also illustrated in the introduction of railway in Breslau in 1847 and the massive growth of the city from around 100,000 inhabitants in 1842 to 239,000 in 1875 and therefore the third largest city in the German Empire. This growth continued with 422,000 in 1900 and can still be seen in the remaining Gründerzeit quarters with their architecture in historism and eclecticism, typical for the 1880's.
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  1929.  @markszu  From a German point of view this perspective is not common because in the 1000 years of the middle ages to modern times the regions populated by German speaking people were fractionated in hundreds smaller independent kingdoms, dukedoms and ecclesiastical princedom, with borders shifting and administrators changing several times. The only thing that connects all these territories and people ist the language and culture. In this way Vienna is German city since it was connected by language and culture over centuries from emperors of the HRE coming from there to composer working there. These idea that identity is made by some adminstrator who live 400 years ago would seem ridiculous, since i could have been a different one in the next village. Plus the people living in Breslau didn't change when the adminstrator changed from Austrian to Prussian.
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  1930. I don't like those "Soli" discussion you often encouter in the West. The solidarity tax everyone with income had to pay whether one lives in the East or West. It was a tax with no designated purpose going directly in the federal budget. Theoreticly this tax euro could end in North Rhine Westfalia. Run down places there are in the same eligible to structural fonds from the EU or Federal goverment like in the East. Yes many investments were made in city centres in East Germany ... but to be honest the royal river promenade in Dresden was already much more pretty 100 years ago than some Miner's street in Gelsenkirchen. Please keep in mind, people in former East Germany did not have the chance to accumulate wealth like in West and therefore lack the ressources to renovated their houses as much as possible. As Aston mentioned in comparison more old people live there - often pentionist with lower pension than in the West. All the clever tax reduction tricks for renovating a protected halftimbered house don't work for them.
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  1931.  @tomorrowneverdies567  Germany has even a very long tradition (over 170 years) of allotment garden, which has little impact on the fertility rate.
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  1932. @Gemer where is this "central Europe" which distinct from Germany?
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  1933. if the demographics were that clear... there is much more gray and even the Soviet Union is a full generation gone.
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  1934. Since the Second World stopped to exist almost 30 years ago, the terms (like 3rd World) are outdated and anachronistic - even it puts a ranking to the various parts of the world, as if life would be 3 times more worth living in another part.
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  1935. I can see that Bremen is the more interesting center in a rather mediocre surrounding of Lower Saxony.
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  1936.  @kiberburjui9608  well, always? What about the Tatars and the Greeks? And even the Neanderthals?
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  1937.  @kiberburjui9608  the Russian Empire does not exist anymore. With this "excuse" Putin could annex the whole Caucasus.
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  1938.  @kiberburjui9608  it would be anachronistic.
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  1939.  @kiberburjui9608  the world system from yesterdays
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  1940.  @user-Z1958  it is the right for every human to speak up against attacks, bombing and killing. Also Russia signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. this includes also the Right for Life, Freedom and Security.
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  1941.  @user-Z1958  but do realise that the topic of the video here is Russia and the consequences of Russia attacking Ukraine. The US didn't attack Russia and didn't interfered with internal affairs in Russia. About 98% of humanity does not regard attacking Ukraine as an "internal Russian affair".
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  1942.  @Wild-Siberia  ... and I have no idea to which of my comments you are answering to? You are hard to follow ... especially here, since I haven't even adressed you in this thread. Try to mention what you are regarding to or which specific argument you are adressing.
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  1943.  @Wild-Siberia  is this a question? if so, please apply a question mark to it then. For me it is not worthwhile to argue about who killed more people in Afghanistan. If you would stress how many children could go savely to school because of your job and how many civilian didn't get hurt because of you cleaning up land mines, that would be something people could relate to. Playing war is not self purpose.
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  1944. It is also the same in Scandinavian countries: people form friendship circles established in childhood, school or study. This is not unique German.
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  1945. @agn855  🤣
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  1946. In which century do you live? What is left on fascistoid, imperialistic Ruzzia? And what is right on the Social Democrats - Ecologists - Liberal government of Germany?
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  1947. intesting conspiracy theory? self-made or from some-one else?
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  1948. What did you personally do for winning?
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  1949. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I really hope there will be peace soon. W*r is never a solution - in the end everybody looses.
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  1950. they are not thin ... just a little bit thinner than US Americans.
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  1951. ... and still East German found ways to show there protest: like choose a certain language in public... organize protest meeing in churches because the police were not allowed to arrest there.... have a certain ribbon tied to your car ... etc.
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  1952. meanwhile in Bachmut: having drinking water and not drinking from a rain puddle - priceless.
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  1953. have you ever asked yourself how many people would live in Kosovo today, if Serbia did not... what did your grandpa say to this?
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  1954. "Schwarzsauer" came out of fashion in Germany. But I remember my Mum telling stories that it was much more standard when she was young. They combined it with slices of boiled pears - which I guess, give another dimension of sweet to this rather sour and savoury soup.
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  1955. 🤣😂 the EU is not even a state in order "to grab land".
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  1956.  @arnolsi  Egg prices are the highest before Easter. If you want to compare prices you to look at longterm statistics and not seasonal price differences ... and not wonder why fruits are expensive in spring and heating oil more expensive in winter.
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  1957.  @arnolsi  poor you - here it's 1,99 or 2,50 when apple are in saison. But you are right- I never buy apples - because I have so many in my own garden and from friends. Only the time now from June to July I#m out of them.
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  1958.  @Camnio1  softdrinks almost doubled? ... I guess I haven't noticed that. So a fizzy 1, 5 litre lemon lemonade which use to be 0,79 is now 1,49? hard to believe.
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  1959.  @joek600  actually I never buy coke, neither coca cola, pepsi or others - so I don't Know, though Coca Cola could be 1,35 € in Germany - and off brand just 0,59 €
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  1960.  @joek600  yeah, juice got more expensiv ... the nation's favorite here: apple juice used to be around 1 Euro , but it's hard to find for tthis price nowadays - rather 1,30.
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  1961.  @boonamai8926  I bet you didn't get the topic of this thread. Too busy doing clowns games instead of reading?
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  1962.  @hansusedom2491  "Butterbrot" ist ein falscher Freund im Russischen, denn es ist dort ein belegtes Sandwich. Dennoch hast du recht, die Milchpreise sind auch gerade um 15 Cent gefallen.
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  1963.  @DaKoRTE17  wenn man sich von Pringles ernährt... 🤣😂
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  1964.  @theweb3182  never heard of that - they are still looking for employees in many fields in Germany.
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  1965.  @sourcedasher  how could someone produce, package, distribute and sell a pizza for 59 cent?!?
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  1966.  @bullshitdepartment  the alias name obligates...
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  1967.  @sourcedasher  it is not sustainable... and therefore good that it stopped.
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  1968.  @sourcedasher  you're right: it's my fault that you write all this stuff!!!!1!11!!1!!😅🤣
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  1969. Is the German 'Palmin' not some sort of vegetable shortening?
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  1970. I never heard someone saying: "Yesterday went I to the supermarket." This mistake is very constructed.
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  1971.  @asdf1238hgf  it is really the worst that the Orthodox patriarch in Moscow is backing Putler's aggression. It is so not-christian to attack other countries and kill people there. Maybe many Ruzzians should truly question their faith!
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  1972. Danzig was part of the Prussian confederation since 1440 and part of Royal Prussia with privileges and autonomy from the Polish crown and a majority of German speaking inhabitants over centuries. Have you ever wondered why the entire population of the new territories of Poland in the west and north was expelled when they were "just germanized" but "always Polish"?
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  1973. ​ @martini604  expelling and killing people are never a good thing - except you are a war criminal, n*zi or some other dictator. So, pick your side!
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  1974. Of course, bending down for coke is nearly as dramatic as sitting in a basement in Ukraine without drinking water while you here the eruptions outside.... (it is a shame thar Russians often come across self-centered with little empathy for those people Russia attacks)
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  1975. Really? Do you think, it is odd that people watch a video in English but then comment mainly in Russian?
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  1976. what is "Ukropium"? is this Wladimir Göbbelsowitsch Solowjow speak?
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  1977.  @ТимофейБутняков-м3п  all riddles to me.
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  1978. W O W !!!1!!1!
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  1979. There is difference between a unified German state and German speaking people in the areas who used to live their for 7 centuries.
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  1980.  Kaydzy , you are 75 years too late.
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  1981. "Die Bank" could be both: the bank as an financial institut or the bench. Actually, they have the same root. In earlier times money business like loans etc was done on a wooden bench/ desk and when this "bank" ran out of money / out of business the wooden bench was broken =ruptured, thus bankrupt.
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  1982. The egg things is a gadget for someone who has already everything. But ordinary Germans don't have it and don't need it.
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  1983. So you live in a white wooden house with red barn, ride a buggy and grow your own veggies?
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  1984.  @andreasrademacher5715  :-)) Ostfriesland sieht aus wie Ohio :-)) ... und der Harz sieht aus wie die Rocky Mountains !!111!!!
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  1985. kindergarten was created by accident or as a by-product.
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  1986. Fighting in Afghanistan is probably one of a few things Russians and US Americans share.
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  1987. Thailand was never attacked, occupied and colonized, I guess ... that would explain this perspective.
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  1988. Who is "Ukraine"? This is not a single person. Activists who set up a webpage for name-shaming companies might not be the military staff ordering diesel.
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  1989. 8th commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour! and for Russia: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house!
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  1990.  @therat1117  the oldest recorded source of 997 mentioned Gyddanyzc which is as close to Gdansk as to Danzig. If the spelling Gdansk existed back then you better should check sources.
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  1991.  @AltIng9154  don't forget the Prussian administration made school mandatory everywhere in Prussia more than 300 years ago with standard High Germany as the school language. That also meant that most of the pupil in Northern Germany were taught in a different language than their local Low Germany and this language was intentionally suppressed. Often Polish commentator give the impression that only Polish was suppressed in Prussian schools, but it was done with all minority languages in Prussia. And if you look at France today the French state still suppresses minority languages, also in the education system.
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  1992.  @therat1117  basically whole discussion is pointless, both modern names Gdansk and Danzig have their rights, since we hardly know the spelling conversation and pronunciations of the 10th or 13th century. To discuss which is "more original" is futile when it is no clear if the name was externally used or by the locals? The oldest surviving seal of the city council reads "Dantzik" - which is an indication how the locals wrote their city name.
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  1993. das ganze Video ist voll damit! Wahnsinn!!11!!!
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  1994. so Germany should be virtual?!?
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  1995.  I Stand With Russia  I doubt, this was the point of Bigsky.
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  1996. Roman, ... and at the same time millions in Russia buy this stuff from the rotten west and made by aggressive Nato recipes!!1!!!
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  1997.  @Robespierre-lI  are you sure "Poles being dumb"-jokes is a thing in Europe? I only came across those jokes in the US.
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  1998.  @stevenjoy3537  what is Central Europe then?
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  1999.  @gregsweet9552  this is pretty odd to claim Germans for this kind of jokes. Because in Germany totally other stereotypes and jokes about Poles exist than "being dumb". This type of American dumb-jokes is reserved for East Frisians in Germany.
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  2000.  @Nalesnik158  never heard of that ... what kind of school document should that be?
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  2001.  @eclecticaro  never heard of park benches that cost €60-80k in Germany. Usually park benches cost €1-2k in Germany. Often parts of the benches are produced in Czechia or other places and just resembled in Germany. What kind of criteria should that be, that only German benches could meet?!? THe story sound very much - made up, probably by an anti-EU PiS-politician?!
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  2002.  @kacperm6555  Bertrecht91 is only illustrtating the stereotypes that exist about Poles in Germany and that leeds to certain types of jokes there, which are obviously different from the American dumb-jokes.
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  2003.  @krowaswieta7944  but I guess, you need to knoow Polish in order to work in Poland?
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  2004.  @jacekchmielewski6372  The story about American jokes "fed by uneducated German immigrants" sounds odd. First, this type of jokes about Poles does not exit in Germany. Secondly, Germans usually regarded themselves as skilled craftsmen, also those who migrated to America.
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  2005.  @krowaswieta7944  well, they say Ukranian is closer to Polish and Slovak than to Russian. I guess, there must be similarities. Dutch feels like a dialect for Germans ... and therefore it is probably a bit difficult to stay focused on Dutch and not to fall back into German. Danish is much more difficult and has a odd mumbling pronunciation to it, as if word endings eaten up and the intonation is monoton - so when you are not good at it, it is hard to guess, if it is question or a sentence or is the sentence even finished yet. Swedish seems more melodic and easier to learn for a German; the same applies for English. In Germany there are not many news about the Polish goverment, though you get the impression that they polarise society, in a way Erdogan, Orban or Trump does: you either for them or against them - there is no middle ground, no area for compromises.
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  2006.  @krowaswieta7944  for me as non-Pole it is hard to grasp why Donald Tusk is often so aggressively attacked: you can see it in many comments on youtube, too. He seems to be a very decent person.
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  2007.  @krowaswieta7944  dividing countries and shifting borders actually seemed outdated and anachronistic ... well, obviously not for all as we see in Ukraine. Actually, that was a point I like about the EU: it sometimes takes power from central goverments and shifts it to the region, so regions can have their own policies.
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  2008. BTW, Germans are not all about beer. Especially in Central German so-called apple wine (Apfelwein / Äppelwoi) has a long tradition. Though this traditional apple wine is not fizzy (compared to the cider) because the gas is allowed to escape during the fermentation process. Therefore it is closer to wine than to beer.
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  2009.  @britingermany  "frolicking" sound like a word adopted from German...
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  2010.  @britingermany  frolic resembles fröhlich somehow. I could explain how "fröhlich" came about from "froh" and th adjective ending "-lich". But how English came up with fro or lic is not so obvious to me.
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  2011. Also Dutch, Russian, Arabic or Welsh.
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  2012. I really would observe the data carefully: the so-called East Germany is why smaller than West Germany and makes up less than a third of the country. If it comes to population and hence settlements to visit it is less than a fifth of the overall population: of course, there will be less and less tourism. Though, the coast of Mecklen-Vorpommern and the city of Berlin - both in the East - generate a lot of tourism. But after all Germany is not really an international tourist destination. As the data showed foreign tourist just made a small fraction, with Dutch the biggest group amoung them. Due to proximity Dutch tourist will choose West Germany for short trips because it is adjacent to their border. The main key fact are domestic tourists within Germany: and my feeling is here that many West Germans still lack interest in the Eastern part of the country and would not necessarily go there. But it is still hard to believe that Bremen genereates more tourism than Dresden. Dresden offeres so much more for the tourist, even the surrounding is pretty and touristy.
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  2013. this is a bit far fetched. well, all ancestors of the people commenting here are from Africa.
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  2014. Even the Neathertals called Gdansk!!!1!!1!!111!
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  2015. bluemond, is it an option?
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  2016. Well, Hungary is Central - not Eastern Europe. Why bother with such detail?? Having a Stalin statues are rather unusual after the midst of the 1950's Sometimes it is hard to listen to his half cooked comments over benches which are interpreted as "communist". Poor benches - fortunatly they don't have ears!
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  2017.  @MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl  are you talking about addressing colleagues within a company ... or addressing a client? I work in planning and construction: of course everybody within the company if boss or trainee uses "Du", but you want to this with clients.
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  2018. ... and it was so easy to sell you this narrative and fairytale. ... and when they were not hit by a Ruzzian bomb they lived happily ever after...
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  2019.  @puppeli  I never really thought about that there could be a difference between what various types liquorice (confectionery) - either made of salmiak or liquorice (plant). In the end it was all liquorice (confectionery) to me.
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  2020. how do you suffer right now?
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  2021. Why Poland? What is Polish about it?
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  2022.  @rwdplz1  on September 1st Russia started Poland?
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  2023. so years of Russian propaganda about the rotten, decadent and morally wrong West, Westerb livestyles and wrong freedoms - just let to to Russian consumers by imitated Western products. Interesting.
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  2024. who?
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  2025.  @ommsterlitz1805  to "re-turn" something to somebody, it should belong to this person before... just food for thought.
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  2026.  @briantimmins7483  that's probably an urban myth.
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  2027.  @ommsterlitz1805  what was Polish about it back then?
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  2028.  @ommsterlitz1805  ... or rather nothing - except a Polish king claiming it.
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  2029.  @ommsterlitz1805  yes, more Lithuanian than Polish, but not far as much German as it used to be.
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  2030.  @sureillance9010onPS4  what kind of freedom is this? They "freedom of personally attacking others by their looks". I'm afraid the world outside and the rest of humanity is your "enemy".
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  2031.  @asjaosaline5987  I don't get the term annexation in this regards. The 13 colonies (or todays 16 states) which founded the United States were not annexed by the USA either. Might be that New Jersey lost some autonomy in this process, but that is what happens when you join other states to form a bigger country. Nobody would think New Jersey or New York were annexed. The call for a unification of all or most lands inhabited by Germans started in the beginning of the 1800's from all ranks of society - not just leaders. Okay, maybe it was not a totally democratic process in our sense of today. Though I doubt that people in the American colonies could vote about the formation of the US. I've never heard that the EU conquers or annexes territories. Even more nobody was forced to found the EU or join it. Sorry, this is all nonsense.
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  2032.  @asjaosaline5987  amen.
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  2033. I think it is even more complicated: there are also Russian speaking ethnic Ukrainians in Ukraine ... and maybe even Ukrainian speaking ethic Russians in Ukraine. Despite those there could be Ukrainian or Russian speaking ethnic Tatars, Armenians, Greek ... etc. ... or they speak one of officially 18 minority languages...
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  2034.  @BagginsFedor  noone who lived in 1917 is still alive. Since you speak about times noone experienced personally: Ethnic Russians are just Ukrainian who lived in Russian Empire after 1547!
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  2035.  @BagginsFedor  you can not invent people, they will be born. Ukrainian existed all the time, no matter they were called.
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  2036.  @yusoval  an ethnicity usually has not necessarily something to do with blood or a passport, but with a group of people who share a common culture and language - this has to do a lot with self identification and not so much with a Putlerism which declares a Russian World as an imperialistic shere.
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  2037. yet, if you would ask a standard German, what he thinks about Swastika signs, would he just reply: well, I don't know... ? Or if a taxi driver ask if he likes Adolf H. , would he just wonder about: what if I say 'yes'?
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  2038. Russians are totally different in this way. Look how many left the country and even after the mobilisation ... they don't want to follow their master and become cannon fodder.
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  2039. really? impossible?
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  2040. I feel sorry for you.
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  2041. what about cat babies?
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  2042. I believe an accents tells about you personality, your background and history and I find it rather interesting. I don't mind a thick German accent in English either. I stayed a while in NYC. There you can meet so many accents. And often someone with supposedly German accent appears to be with a Yiddish / Yewish background.
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  2043. where is Konigsburg?
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  2044.  @williewonka6694  that means translated: "Kalinin's City" You wrote "Royal Castle" in German. There is a ruin castle with that name in the Harz mountains - some 700 kilmeters from Kalinin's City. or Hoh-Königsburg wwhich is a well kept castle in Alsace - some 1200 kilometers away.
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  2045. Actually, there are a few atempts to build in more old town/ German style, even with some half timbered facades. As a German it looks funny, since obviously Russian developers and architects don't know how German halftimbered construction work. It is obviously purely fake decoration. If it would be real wooden beams they could not support the wall in the chosen pattern.
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  2046.  @kiberburjui9608  yes, I know ... and in socialist time it created a feeling of equalness if everyone lives in similar flats and houses. I'm not talking about this but more recent projects like "Fischerdorf".
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  2047. just stay in Merica and you will be fine!
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  2048. Kobolds?
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  2049. In your thoughts you want to question yourself, what was Polish in these cities before 1945 when 95% of it's populations spoke German? What was Polish in these cities, when the majority spoke German over centuries? What was Polish in Danzig when the town negotiated autonomy and privilegdes already in the 15th century due to their German speaking and protestant believing population? Was there anything to be seen of the small settlements or forts of Mieszko after nearly 1000 years and when places developed from a few hundred inhabitans to cíties of several hundred thousands??
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  2050. Seff2, did you watch the video? It was about Magdeburg not Dresden. There are no areas where a neo-nazi party got more than 50% of the votes, especially not in Magdeburg. Election results of right wing AfD might be concerning - being the third largest party in recent elections in the area.
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  2051. Where does this modern urban myth come from?
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  2052. As someone from former East Germany I can confirm I had my school start celebration the saturday before the first day in school - together with the family. Although my cone was also hexagonal - naming it "sugar cone" instead of "school cone /Schultüte" I find rather unusual. People often don't realize that "Eastern Germany" is a generalization on its own: though maybe adminstrative things could be similar from being it seperate state for 40 years - dialects, words and traditions can also differ greatly since it comprises different regions with different history.
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  2053. Karelia was largely depopulated. A lot of Karelian were expelled or moved to Finnland. Now Russia has the land but makes little use of it.
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  2054. sad.
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  2055. I found the people answering also slightly aggressive.
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  2056. Maybe the price varies whether you can speak Russian or not?!
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  2057.  @LongMax  Russia should have apples too. And store them in a warehouse (usually cool with extra CO2) is not a rocketscience. My self picked apples from the garden usually last until Easter. Btw, there was a guy called Mitschurin who did experiments on the cold hardinest of fruit tree in the last century to establish apples even in Siberia.
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  2058. Beerfest seems really terrible.
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  2059. @Gigi, dividing the world in various part and ranking them in first, second or third seems like a outdated concept.
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  2060. I'm not sure if the story of Kaliningrad being offered back to Germany is a rumor or based on facts. I would have doubts.
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  2061. These Russian men are just plain cannon fodder in a land of which administration thinks its human resources are endless.
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  2062. If everything is so perfect, why is there so much domestic violence in Russia? Why are 14,000 wives killed by their Russian husbands yearly? Why do so many Russian men leave their woman and kids behind, not paying any aliment? Why does in this perfect Russia the special operator Putler changes the law that domestic violence is not a crime anymore?
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  2063. I don't know what is funny about being a refugee fleeing bombs?! How sick can someone be to laugh about it?!
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  2064. wenn ich schon "Florian..." höre, würde ich sofort die Haustür zuschlagen. Da kann nur noch ein neunmalkluger Versicherungsvertreter kommen...
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  2065. ​ @Wild-Siberia  honestly? then Africa would be a safer bet.
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  2066. Strange Russian perception of world! Who has stolen anything from Russia in the 1990? I guess, for some Russian the wish for right of independence of e.g. Baltic states is "stealing" . And when they have problems with LGBT right they throw bombs on Ukraine... were weird idea of "peace-loving"! I can totally understand that many people in former Soviet republics don't want this "Russian love".
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  2067.  @gfys756  sad becaus of that?
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  2068. just move to wonderful Russia and see for yourself how far you will get with free speech ... and don't be surpise to find there nazis, too.
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  2069.  @HelmutQ  it sound formal - not colloquial, but it is still correct.
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  2070.  @HelmutQ  First, Willi Brandt grew up in Lübeck and not in Hanover and secondly he is also already dead like most of that generation who still spoke like that.
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  2071.  @mile_381  I'm afraid you are wrong in two ways. The Russian army is not very professional and there are conscripts as part of the invation.
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  2072. How did IKEA do this without the Russian customer?
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  2073. great video! Just this weird tiles on the fire place in the background are distracting. Though the 'German Girl' is very beautiful these tiles reminds me on the rotten skin of Jesus in the Isenheim Altarpiece.
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  2074. I hope, those guys will be not disappointed that they will not encounter "nazis" and "fascists" on the Ukrainian battlefields, but just other ordinary guys who are just defending their country.
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  2075. What about giving Europe back to the Neanderthals?!? ;-)
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  2076.  @Anttihii  great idea!!11!!!1!
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  2077. who is trading with who? Russia with Russia? Or is Ukraine supposed to get Kaliningrad? What for?
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  2078.  @mrflorida55  the position of Ukraine in relation to Moscow hasn't changed in almost 100 years.
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  2079.  @mrflorida55  who is enemy of RF? They rather fighting their own demons of becoming less powerful, less important and more democratic.
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  2080.  @Thiesi  that is not my point. I was wondering, what it makes with young people an their later way ... because this is the period we call "Sturm and Drang" in German, when people are most passionate, enthusiastic and full of new ideas.
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  2081.  @nothing2believe  how do you know that. With the 1st person it was clear - in changing the topic showing the disrespect for Putin.
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  2082.  @nkrishnanarasaiah3125  what about whataboutism?!
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  2083.  @Jugal214  nobody has a clear idea why Putin does this?! His tales about Mother Russia, nazis, the rotten West, Satan and God knows what else are just crazy excuse. I doesn't speak about his geopolitical goal, the natural resources of Ukraine and if he himself or his oligarch buddies are interested in it.
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  2084.  @MrGregHiller  where do you live?
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  2085.  @atlasatlantis8447  one of the biggest war criminals in Syria is Putin!
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  2086.  @rafgraph  I not sure if individual persons can overthrow Putler, but those individuals can show at least some empathy for those victims who were killed in Butcha or Mariupol in their name as the Russian nation. Many Russians come across as if they don't care and don't want to bothered ... until they are drafted.
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  2087.  @matthewnienkirchen8083  please tell us what this war is about in your opinion. I wonder where you get the number of 95 % ethnic Russians from? Please not, Russian speaking Ukrainians are not the same as ethnic Russians - and the portion of the 1st was around 75% and portion of the last clearly less. I guess, you are falling for Russian propaganda which tells that there is no such thing as Ukraine- they are all Russians.
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  2088.  @matthewnienkirchen8083  I would rather stick to sources which are from this decade and which are available to everyone else . - than what a single, unnamed person said some 40 years ago. Between now and then a lot happend: the dissolving of USSR with alot of migration between the states that followed, 30 years of an independent Ukraine, a whole new generation grew up, years of fights financed by Russia plus recent refugee movements, which all changed the demographics. Yes, in your listing you also missed years when Russia financed dubious people in so-called people's republics and Russian military personnel. Well, before the recent Russian aggression 75 % of the population said they are Russian speaking, but only about 30 % considered themselves as ethnic Russians. It is undeniable, that Putin politics forced Sweden and Finland in joining NATO. The same way his brutal aggression resulted in a movement that people in Eastern Ukraine are tend to use more the Ukrainian language and identify more with the Ukrainian state. All in all, Putin politics where more than contraproductive.
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  2089.  @mojojim6458  well, Elbe and Oder are often hardly shippable for large vessels for large portions of the year due to very low water levels. There is are decades long debates in Germany that it won't be cost effective to transform the river beds by digging them deeper and building water barrages to keep the water level up. So it is not about compation but the German rivers are not suitable and a parallel set of canal already exists.
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  2090. Salaries and pensions are way less, too! Great, isn't it?!
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  2091. Yess!!!11!!! Me, too!!1!!1!🤣🤣🤣
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  2092. It might be that YouTubers consider themselves as content creators, but this video is a bit too much story telling and narratives. Sure the crusaders fought the pagans, because they also defended themselves. But this narratives of the vast extermination of the Old Prussians is painted with too thick paint. How could you build and maintain huges castles when you allegedly killed everyone around it? Thousands of knights also needed food besides bricks. To face it majority of the Old Prussians were assimilated and adopted the German language over time. The only writen documents and dictionaries of their Old Prussian language are from the 16th century: How is this possible when they exterminated centuries ago? Would the story really better if the Polish prince conquered the territory of the Prussians himself and they would have suppressed and assimilated by Poles?!? Also the story of Russia wanted to give the territory back to Germany after 1990 is more hear-say than anything else...
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  2093.  @jb894  you probably taste terrible!
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  2094.  @jb894  sure!!!1!! And now you should go to bed - school starts early tomorrow! Did you brush your teeth yet?!
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  2095.  @jb894  then start acting like a grown-up!
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  2096. @AZ 89 Niemand war nie Deutscher ... Spinner!
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  2097. This argument is hard to follow.
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  2098.  @stephendoherty8291  if you slice a bread in advance it can spoil more easily than leaving the loaf intact.
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  2099.  @aircoolguy5218  you mean "larger"... do they speak English in Texas?!?
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  2100.  @aircoolguy5218  well, on this side of the pond people understand large as regarding size and area while big rather means in population or total economic output.
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  2101.  @aircoolguy5218  okay, of course Texas could be a country bei size and numbers in Europe, but still there would be 8 countries with a bigger population and 4 with a larger economy. Texas is fairly large in area, but everybody knows things are smaller in Europe.
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  2102.  @aircoolguy5218  Texas definitly needs more self marketing if you ask me. Over here in Europe people don't know much about it except some cowboy images. In Germany people have the idea that Texas people are as "special" as Bavarians and the landscape is as boring as in Brandendurg.
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  2103. Who are these "people"?
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  2104. I've noticed Feli used 'infamous' a lot while making her tour at the Christmas market - and I was wondering about the use of the word. For me 'infamous' stands for something well-known but more likely in a negative way. But I don't see what could be negative about ginger bread (beside sugar and carious ;-) )? Those things I would describe just as 'famous'.
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  2105. so the name Putler is justified?
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  2106. Kathy, it is not a proper word which will appear in written German therefore it has no spelling rules. If I had to write it I would do it this way: nee?! It is dialect for "nicht" (not) and probably comes from "nicht wahr?!" (not true?) which equals "right?"
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  2107. And being a refugee fleeing from war is all fun?!?
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  2108. ​ @Natali_Veiss03  the rest of the world is still puzzled why Putler started this senseless war. One of the many theories is, that he wants to gain new citizens since the population of Russia is shrinking over the last decade. Do you agree with it? But we have to see if his math works out. So far he gained 2 million refugees, but he already lost 200,000 young Russian men on the battlefields and at least 500,000 Russian citizen fleeing oppression and to avoid mobilisation.
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  2109. jeeess, all this return stuff! there is no kingdom of Poland today some fief can return to. there is nothing Polish about Kaliningrad today - as there was little in Königsberg. Just because a name in a certain language exist, doesn't mean anything. There is an English name for Moscow, a Polish for Vienna, an Italian for Munich and an ancient German for London ... and that's means what???
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  2110. wie denn? Also, ich liebe ja die Olsen Bande!
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  2111.  @britingermany  unfortunatly, you can already hear "Sinn machen" on TV from the ARD broadcaster - so it seems accepted.
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  2112.  @split4ss59  "das erinnere ich" could be a regional thing as well, since I've noticed it only in the very northern regions of Germany.
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  2113. American comedians are not only screaming when doing a parody on German, but they do it with a high pitch - I wonder if this also has to do with Hitler's speeches?
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  2114. Who is P?
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  2115. Start to bring Slovakia back to Mother Czechia first, than you can talk about the next special operations....
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  2116. these are all theoretical thoughts, so there is a key point in the beginning which is critical. There are many Russian speaking people in Eastern Ukraine. Thought there Ukrainian speaking, too - at the same time. Russian speaking doesn't make them automatically "ethnic Russians" or even Russian citizens. French speaking citizens of Belgium are not automatically "ethnic French" - normally they call themselves Walloons.
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  2117. A traditional Kneipe also has a certain look with a lot of wood panels. Though a British pub sometimes could resemble a living room with fireplace, a sofa or even carpet, carpet would be considered yucky for a German Kneipe and the furniture like chairs and table would rather remind of a French bistro.
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  2118. Halftimbered houses were the standard in Germany for centuries - not because they did not know how to build with stone or brick or had forgotten it. It was just much cheaper / cost efficient way. Houses made completly from stone or brick were only for the very wealthy and used for castles, palaces, townhalls, churches etc. Consequently, in the 19th century existing halftimbered were considered as poor and were often covered up on the exterior (or least a the front to the street) with plasture and stucco in order to give it a more solid appearance. At the same time new buildings were built with bricks then, because through the industrial revolution and mass production bricks became cheaper.
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  2119. where did you get this tale from? Is this the one withe the wolf and little red riding hood?
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  2120.  @matmo2375  just explain, why all original Balts should have been murdered in the 13th century and on which source this hypothesis is based?
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  2121. Sometimes there is so much Denglish in media, marketing, social media and youth slang, that older generation in Germany who did not learn English in school is lost...
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  2122. Where did you see that in the video?
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  2123.  @lkbv464  I still don't hear it. Do I have to watch Ruzzian TV for it?
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  2124. they are Russian speaking ... they are not automatically Raussians.
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  2125. Can't someone give the moon to them as a Ruzzian territory and let the other live in peace?
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  2126.  @lilacer6841  Because it attackes neighbouring countries, destroys entire settlements and kills people who just want to live in peace there. That's why!
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  2127. Have you ever tried to enter Russia without a complicated visa process?!
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  2128. I just was about the same about the insane prices. Okay it is Manhattan plus East Village, but still astronomical considering the fairly small rooms.
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  2129. Copernicus was born in Thorn, Prussia.
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  2130.  @marek-7607  well, this is your view. But when Copernicus was born in Thorn, the town was part of the Prussian confederation, a number of selfgovern cities which switch from the Teutonic Order to the Polish Crown in 1466, but with vast autonomy. This doesn't make these cities automatically "Polish". The King of England is also officially the head of Canada - this doesn't make Montreal automatically English or part of England. People in Thorn, especially in Copernicus' social class of wealthy merchants, spoke merely German. Copernicus was not only a scientist, but later had clerical and administrative functions and tasks in these cities in Prussia and Warmia were he must have used German on daily basis. To paint him all "Polish" might be a popular myth in Poland, but is only a onesided view and at best only a part of the truth.
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  2131. but you can drive to your supermarket or ikea
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  2132.  @purplegill10  imagine getting your billy shelf with a gondola home ...
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  2133.  @Jarekthegamingdragon  public transit is a rather small boot in old town Venice.
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  2134.  @soundscape26  sure, it is a walkable wonder and a city out of fairytale. But if you have to live there as a modern family in every day life it is a totally different story. You can just pop in the supermarket, because there merely tourist/souvenir shops around and you can't just drive quickly to the hardware sore to fix something in the flat. Even a parking spot for a boat can be a problem.
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  2135.  @Jarekthegamingdragon  can you compare your salary to an Italian?
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  2136.  @soundscape26  My parents / grandparents had to head theire houses with wood and coal every day. Today you just press a buttom or the heating system works automatically. Despite Venice's beauty I can see that living in Mestre is more convenient, too. Even if you do a not tourist related business it would be there easier. Plus many houses in old Venice were sold to foreigners, too.
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  2137.  @peepeetrain8755  how much do you earn per week?
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  2138.  @KyrieFortune  who or where is we?
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  2139. weird video: accusing people of being "woke" - but do the same thing "woke" people are accused of - in this case: shaming Sunny. And this with speculations: the chances of her being an offspring of a slave trader .. or of a poor Spanish immigrant is 1: 5000. Facing historic responsibility is right and is even more motivating because or despite of her family history. The chances that a blond Argentinian has a high rank nazi nazi grandpa is 1:500. The chances that his grandparents are actually German Jew fleeing the nazi regime is even 10 times higher with about 1:50. Coming up with these weird stereotypes just illustrates his type of conspiracy theory style story telling.
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  2140. свобода -freedom?!? Freedom of speech? Freedom to protest? Free elections? Free journalism? Free, indipendent justice? Are you sure it is RuZZia?
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  2141. Obviously there are more who need treatment, considering their state of mind after decades of Ruzzian propaganda.
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  2142. Germany is occupied by Germany!!!11!111!!!!!! Who knew???22??
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  2143. Eugenio, what is wrong with the expert, except he gave not much detailed and new information.
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  2144. How could they do this??
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  2145.  @Henning_Rech  I doubt that ... obviously there was already a DIN from the 1940's defining Monday as day #1 of the week.
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  2146.  @Henning_Rech  okay, you found one (!) hard to read image, where we don' t know if it was produced for an international market or there was a rare production mistake and that's why it is a collectable.
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  2147.  @Nini-hd7pd , tust du das mit der Gabel auch, wenn du mit Messer und Gabel gleichzeitig ist? Wenn man nur mit der Gabel ist, dann ist es in Deutschland üblich, sie in die rechte Hand zu nehmen. Bei bestimmten Gerichten ist das "nur mit der Gabel essen" auch total Knigge konform, z.b. bei bestimmten Gerichten, wo man nichts zu schneiden hat, weil das Essen schon in Stückchen daher kommt, z.B. Frikassee, Goulasch oder Salat. Die Woche fängt mit Montag und endet mit Sonntag: so ist das international festgelegt, z.B. in der ISO-Norm, die Feli erwähnt. Es gibt meiner meinung nach so gar einen Un-Beschluss darüber. Das ist sogar wichtig, dass so etwas geregelt ist. Denn manchmal wird in Verträgen die Kalenderwoche erwähnt, z.B. die 45. Kalenderwoche, bis dahin muss etwas geliefert oder fertig gestellt sein. Für deutsche Firmen bedeutet das, sie könnten theoretisch noch am Sonntag etwas liefern oder Arbeiten beenden, ohne eine Vertragsstrafe zu kassieren.
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  2148.  @tarno_bejo_  great theory. Just consider the German terms "wochentags" (weekdays) or "unter der Woche" (among the week) similar to "werktags" (working days) relating to Monday to Friday (or even Monday to Saturday) as the week(days) in contrast to the weekend, especially Sunday. Therefor Mittwoch could clearly mark the midst between Monday and Friday quite well.
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  2149.  @tarno_bejo_  okay, we agree, that we don't know, and it's pretty much speculation.
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  2150.  @tarno_bejo_ , I do not know. One Thing for sure, the Julian calendar, the predecessor of the Gregorian calendar is older than the notion of beeing German. There was a sence of speaking German or being of German tongue in the middle ages ... but a Germany as one state or being a German as a nationality is more a product of the 19th century.
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  2151.  @tarno_bejo_ , I had to look it up in the German wikipedia article "Wochentag" https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wochentag There it states, the 7 day week is an old babylonian concept which the Romans adopted. They named the days after planets (or gods). The first day is there the day of the sun (sunday). The second of the moon (monday)... and so on. In the 4 th century the Germanic tribes came in contact with this concept but rename the days after their Gods. So Thursday is the day of Thor and Friday is the day of Freya. With the christian missionaries (starting from 8th and 9th century) they tried to replace the pagan names, but with mixed success - only wednesday changed from Wotan's day to Mittwoch (middle of the week) and saturday (day of Saturn) changed to Samstag or Sonnabend.
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  2152.  @lisamoulton2540 , I don't quite get: putting the silverware down and chew each bite?! putting down means really putting out of hand? What you do with your hands meanwhile?
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  2153.  @lisamoulton2540 , that feels odd for my standards. Just to be clear, I'm not judging. But you should be aware or know those "cultural differences", because it could lead to misunderstandings. Social standards, even table manners are a way of showing respect. Therefor doing something diffenrently could be misinterpreted as disrespectful.
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  2154. Said who?
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  2155.  @feedyourmind6713  well, these would be issues to discuss. But nobody did discuss it or asked those questions. It is probably not you answering it for all Germans.
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  2156.  @feedyourmind6713  they did not decide anything - they were not even asked. Just stop spreading mordern myths.
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  2157.  @feedyourmind6713  I guess, the same way information is readily available on the internet about the earth being flat.
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  2158.  @feedyourmind6713  sure, it is!!!11!! ... and Kaliningrad is right on the edge ... and Germans didn't want it back, because they are afraid to fall down the edge!!!!111!
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  2159.  @feedyourmind6713  what a pity - I've must have fallen asleep and missed the end ... I guess, your story must have been too tiresome.
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  2160.  @feedyourmind6713  Tri-tra-trulala, der Feedy ist wieder da!!!
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  2161. If the reaction video is really discussing the point of the original video, providing a different opinion or point of view or adding information, I find it okay and interesting to watch. But often enough you have reaction video where a guy watches the original video and mumbles: oh! ah! no! Interesting! ... and sums it up: I learn a lot. That seems to me like what we Germans call: decorating yourself with someone else's feather. I guess the English say: to adorn oneself with borrowed plumes. It seems not fair that the creator of the origingal video spent so much time and effort in ctreating the video and then someone else harvesting click's by doing almost nothing - just some "ohh" and "uhh" and making a funny face.
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  2162. I can't compare regions within Poland, but at the time the northern territories like Pomerania or East Prussia were within Germany these were one of the most rural, less urban and less industrialized regions within the German Empire.
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  2163. What is an "Euro-Ukrainian"?
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  2164. ​ @alekseygrib  usually in the UK everyone can go to the doctor without special status or documents. In Germany for example you need some sort of registration, which should be not very complicated for refugees from Ukraine. But there was much criticism about it because the registration process took to long and the administration was overwhelmed.
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  2165.  @NPJGlobal  Have you seen anything else than baguette in the video? Did you watch the video at all?
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  2166.  @jantschierschky3461  and when do you believe German bread recipes were developed?
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  2167.  @jantschierschky3461  and my point was that the traditional destinction of poor rye and potatoes lands on one side and rich wheat and beet lands on the other side is blured in time of industrialized agriculture today.
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  2168.  @LiminalQueenMedia  I don't get this popular use of "based" - and also not in regards to bread?!
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  2169.  @mattjackson6871  who said it's better?
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  2170.  @ouicertes9764  who is "we"?
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  2171.  @peterszarvas94  if it comes to your national heritage values ;-) , people get triggered. Quick reminder: there Germans who are advocating to put German bread culture on the UNESCO world heritage list.
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  2172.  @Music-xp5wg  who is Dude?
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  2173.  @avb4805  who is this guy "Everybody"? Probably someone with no manners like you, which is rather sad 😢
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  2174.  @heatherduke7703  🤣
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  2175.  @huquui8789  why don't tell this to the author of the video?
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  2176.  @devilymoon  as the saying goes: delicious taste is in mouth of the beholder!
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  2177.  @krishnakarthik4752  if it is really the best is debatable ... though there is a lot and of variety. But what is more: Germans percieve Germany as the land of bread and bread as sign of national pride. Maybe similar to way French view their red vine. Therefore it is odd for Germans that their country is not taken as a point of reference in this debate.
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  2178.  @krishnakarthik4752  Sure, there are good bakeries in New York - but maybe it is not the US standard. As a German myself I went to a "French" Bakery in Brooklyn (Park Slope) to buy a decent rye based sourdough. Some of their rye breads had caraway seeds - though it might have been made to a "Jewish" recipe.
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  2179.  @miloPRcohen  "it is not"... what are you referring to?
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  2180.  @miloPRcohen  I have a hard time to follow your argument, since I'm not aware to have claimed that classic boulangeries are closing down in France.
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  2181.  @thegloryfabs  what is "bleached bread"?
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  2182.  @SchweinerSchinkler  rubbish. What is it to come up with a "war" in every other comment? Is this the mindset of guys grown up playing computer games the whole day?
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  2183.  @1989ogor  what is different on "Slavic" bread? At a first glance it looks similar. Having similar climatic condition you will find a variety of different grains and lours there, too: wheat as well as rye. If you want to group Polish, Czech and Russian bakery goods, I do have the feeling, you will find more white crescent rolls ... more caraway seeds ... or even cabage in the dough.
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  2184.  @1989ogor  I have been to Poland, Czechia, Russia and Croatia and didn't see much differences to things you could buy in Germany. Rather less variety and sometimes rather bland. Bakeries in Croatia actually looked most interesting and used also filo dough.
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  2185.  @maxidigital  that is true and weird at the same time. Even so the bakery goods offered look very German, the shop owners have a tendency to call it rather "French backery" - apparently for marketing purposes since "French" has a better reputation.
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  2186.  @didierduplantier8359  since there are over 300 very different bread varieties in Germany your generalisation doesn't sound very plausible.
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  2187.  @didierduplantier8359  I didn't say Gernam bread is better. What I said is that bread has a huge variety in Germany, is important for Germans and part of their national pride. Therefore taking France as point of reference for bread feels odd for them or even offensive. Though I have to say, in French bakeries goods are often well displayed and cake is much better packaged.
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  2188.  @didierduplantier8359  rye bread in NYC lacks sometimes sourdough and oft has too many caraway seeds in it. Croissants don't need butter either (there is a lot in it already) - but then you see French people adding butter on it...
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  2189.  @theepicchickenyt  in the German sense Ä, Ö and Ü are umlauts. So Brot (bread) has none, but Brötchen (bread roll) has. In Englis they sometmes call the double dots umlauts, which doesn't make sense in German: the whole letter is a Umlaut (sound shifted letter).
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  2190.  @Caleb-ek4fx  as long as France -Germany not become the axis of evil dough...
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  2191.  @tobeforgottenisworsethande8995  Generation gamer?
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  2192.  @calebcoffey7955  it is not about judging - it is about the self-image of Germans and their varieties of bread they have. Bread seems a thing of national pride as much as they applied to list German bread at the UNESCO as cultural heritage.
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  2193.  @calebcoffey7955  fair enough - though there is a German proverb: without costs there is no value.
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  2194.  @quentin6893  it is not about being better. My point was about variety and self image. I bet, you would be triggered if he made video about the difference between American and European restaurant culture and he went to England, though there are very good chefs e.g. in London. And surely some Belgian would be triggered if he talked about beer and had chosen France over Belgium.
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  2195.  @klopkerna3562  German bread usually has crispy crust outside and is only soft inside. It will be hard to suck it. Try soft American bread for sucking first. But don't starve to 💀 if sucking doesn't work out.
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  2196.  @klopkerna3562  just answering your comment - what did YOU talk about?
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  2197.  @klopkerna3562  interesting. Have you ever been to Germany? ... or did you watch an manga video about it?
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  2198.  @klopkerna3562  how many days? one?!
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  2199.  @thatoneguy-pm8cn  wow, you remember these times? how old are you? 90?! and still active on the internet, writing youtube comments...respect!!
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  2200.  @CoolWatts  Don't get it. The traditional craft of basket weaving is really dying out in Germany. And I doubt, Jeremy Clarkson is an expert on food. He is British to begin with...
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  2201.  @TheAvenger62  you should not concluded from you to all Germans and the entire country. BTW, I doubt, that you will find the quality of baked goods from Aldi in an American supermarket.
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  2202.  @ravisingh5957  have you been to Germany?
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  2203.  @landerandrew3474  where is the connection between bread and fascism/communism?!?
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  2204.  @landerandrew3474  I don't understand your comment about communism and bread.
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  2205.  @landerandrew3474  almost all European countries are Western influenced countries but hardly any view French bread as superior compared to their own bread.
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  2206.  @Jamirio  from the fertile cresent? That is like 6000 or 7000 years ago. Those times are long gone and people live much differently nowadays.
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  2207.  @Jamirio  but why? It could be just out of prestige ... and due to pretty cake presentations.
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  2208.  @Jamirio  true, "German" is not often marketed for backing goods abroad and overseas. But this has more to do with "image" in regard to selling things to the customer - not so much with the variety and quality of baking goods. Food experts on the other hand do highly appreciate German baking goods.
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  2209.  @MrPokerblot  my comment was also a little bit about self-reflection. Maybe ... as England regards itself as the land of pies, people in Germany think of their country as the land of bread, ... or France as the land of cheese or wine. A stereotypical convervation of two Germans meeting would be: A: How were your holidays on Bali? B: Awesome, ...excellent weather, beautiful beaches, gorgeous nature and temples ... but nor decent bread!
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  2210.  @Drunk3nMonk3y72  gamer generation?!
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  2211.  @jcd-k2s  I've been to France st least a dozen times. How often have you been to Germany at all?! Anyhow, it doesn't change the perception of Germans who think of their country as a land bread.
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  2212.  @Sir_Bucket  I don't know what you mean by "skill issue"?! Somethingh related to the baker's craftmanship?
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  2213.  @yama-_-  which accent do you hear?
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  2214.  @GrekeFenris  Pumpernickel is special and not my favorite (even as a German). I also doubt it is the nation's favorite and sold in larger quantities. Though I had sort of Hors d'oeuvre before made from Pumpernickel with cheese or smoked/pickled fish, which were good.
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  2215.  @formationbiz  though rarely anybody does it, but you could buy this sandwich bread off a supermarket shelf here in Germany as well. Actually here small traditional one-man-bakeries struggle because supermarkets sell nearly the same quality of breads, rolls and croissants cheaper.
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  2216.  @pierren___  so you are not German, I guess.
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  2217.  @pierren___ yes, that's what I wrote in my starting comment, ...which you for unexplained reasons denied. Maybe you want to try to read it again?!
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  2218.  @BPFACTS88  in your parallel universe maybe...
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  2219. @Spekulatius I'm not sure if this, really makes the biggest difference, if the breads are delivered from a bakery in the same chain, because often they do bake in the place but just with prefabricated dough pieces. What is even worst that bakers don't do their own dough recipes anymore, but use industrial baking mixtures.
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  2220.  @-Mitra-  I have little exposure to Russian bread. I used to live in Brooklyn for a year. At a French backery in my neighborhood sourdough rye bread was available which was fairly similar to German bread. Sometime I also found other rye bread, which was very much "karavay" style and a bit too much caraway seeds for my taste. But it could be that they tried to cater the East Europaen taste , since there large Russian, Ukrainian, Easter Europaen Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn. When I grew up in East Germany almost half million of Soviet military personnel including their families lived there. They totally had their own infrastructure: own gated neighborhoods, own schools, own school busses, own shops: sometimes we went to such a Russian Magazin (as we calledit) which was a bit exotic at the time. From there I only remember various wheat breads.
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  2221.  @deeplycon638  I don't know anybody in Munich - I can't help you in this regard.
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  2222.  @FreeWorldCitizen  Who is us? France is known for fine dining, pasteries and well decorated gateaux, but for bread I'm not so sure. It is s a shame that Germany is not considered a reference, but it is probably rather a question of image and marketing than of quality or variety. Products labeled "French" or "France" probably sell better to an less educated customer then with the label "German". "German" would rather work for selling technical equiment. I personally lived in England for an exchange semester together in a house with English and French guys studying food industry and they were well aware of the variety and quality of baked goods in Germany as well as the variety of sausages and cold cuts.
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  2223.  @addy405  France is a country and not edible.
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  2224.  @th3_w1tch3r_  okay, you made it: stupiest comment so far!
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  2225.  @fritefrie  what else? pain blanc?! ;-)
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  2226.  @suntzu1409  it is not about rivalry and defeat. As you may have noticed by the other hundreds of comments mentioning Germany - it is the self-image of Germans and Germany and how German bread is part of national pride and self-identification.
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  2227.  @annescholl420  one bread in Bretany might be the best for you personally - but my comment was not about the best but mainly about variety.
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  2228.  @hunchbackaudio  my comment was about the variety of Germany. Generalising it as to heavy with just one type in mind it just the opposite of what I wrote.
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  2229.  @maniak1768  But who needs variety, if there is Wonder Bread?2?!1!
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  2230.  @andreaquadrati  potato bread does exist here - but I'm not sure if it is super popular. On the other hand adding seeds or nuts is very common, most notably pumkinseeds, walnuts or flaxseeds...
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  2231.  @madvada  Did someone write anything about THE BEST?
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  2232.  @joaolemes8757  who said it is better? I'm dumbfounded when people can't read attentivly.
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  2233.  @ed5324  poor you.
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  2234.  @vinpin  vielleicht schreibst du deinen Kommentar noch mal auf Französisch - vielleicht wird er dann verständlich?!
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  2235.  @leopoldbouin8909  poubelle?!
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  2236.  @jimenat357  Never heard of Der Beck... It is definitly not a thing in my region. Though there is a tendecy ala "grow or die" that traditional bakeries started to built larger and now have 5 or 6 shops. But chains do also exist in France.
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  2237.  @afonsosoares3095  what is better?
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  2238.  @MYdestiny69  who is "you guys"?
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  2239.  @BB-my2xk  have you ever been to Germany and have eaten German bread ... or is this knowlegde from your YouTube degree?
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  2240.  @BB-my2xk  that seems a very representative conclusion since we don't know which border and considering that Germany has a vaste variety of regions and breads as stated before.
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  2241.  @datarake7222  well, I guess, tastes are different. And well, there are probably guys out there who prefer a moist gluey or American toast.
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  2242.  @BB-my2xk  dude, why do you write this nonsense here then?! And non of those places is very close to a border, dude!
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  2243.  @dallaselgin2636  yes, it is a cyber illusion run by alliens!!!11!!1!! Sometimes people get sucked into space wholes when entering a bavkery!1!!1!
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  2244.  @LucasdeBlock  I'm sorry, I don't know what a Dutch break is - but it sounds awful and broken. Btw, which of the 300 varieties of bread in Germany are actually talking about?
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  2245.  @atm0t5  I'm sorry that you don't have a local bakery like I do in my village and many other Germans. I guess local bakeries close down when people by too much factory bread like Harry. Are you guilty of that? You should know...
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  2246.  @avoimena  why should there no rye sourdough breads?
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  2247.  @killkiss_son  if you promise not to do the same?!
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  2248.  @aberetumenete  who is fighting?
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  2249.  @leftlifegolfsaga9105  you didn't get my point. It's like a video about pies and the reporter is choosing Belgium over England.
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  2250.  @LOLCAMz  Single bakeries with just 2 people working there in baking und selling becoming very rare in Germany, though in my village still one exists. Most other started to grow or gave up in the last two decades - with the effect of having one bakery but 5 or 10 shops connected. Some even grew that much that they have 200...300 shops.
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  2251.  @wallahitsnotmine4255  are your Aldi breads better? Bretzels are a southern German thing and not that popular in the north ... therefore I would not miss it. But hold your hat, we have croissant lye bretzel style.
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  2252.  @simplyaizhan  eating healthy seem to be considered a lifestyle in the US and therefore those more healthy products are very expensive compared with the European counterparts.
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  2253.  @stateofflorida5082  no, it doesn't. It rather illustrates how fake news are created in the US.
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  2254.  @Guitaristmalakian  and guitar players are so pretentious that they not even get the meaning of comments - they just read what they want to read.
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  2255.  @matthewcarr2255  I share my personal impression as me bing a German - I#m not the world.
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  2256.  @hectorrolon3289  what is your problem?Too much video games?!
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  2257.  @chrystele-fr  It sounds good that you stil have independent bakers and the quality is still improving. Here in Germany, indepent smal bakers experience much competition by bakery chains and bakery sections in supermarkets ... plus they suffer from the rise of engery prices. Though regional and national competitions for bakers also exist in Germany.
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  2258.  @cesruhf2605  there has been more than 500 replies to my comment, most of them more than 1 year old. Therefore it is hard to follow to which comment you are replying.
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  2259.  @guyinsf  off the topic.
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  2260. @Inksfr  well, France is not known for growing different grain other than wheat. While in Germany due to climate and terrain wheat is not everywhere the ideal crop and therefore traditionally a variety of grains are grown: rye, wheat, dinkel, dinkel, oats and also potatoes are used.
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  2261. @Inksfr  yeah, okay "France" has also a wide variety of flours because it has oversea territories in other climate zones.🤣
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  2262. @stellarfrosting  so, where are the famous Polish bakeries which spread internationally?!
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  2263.  @tom_mr97  nobody as taken me as a reference, since I'm not a baker. You can have your impressions and judgement, but there is too much assumptions involved in your comment and too much talking about "we" - although I'm convinced you arn't a baker either or have taken part in any bread competition.
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  2264. ​ @thesmirkingwolf  oh, your comment makes so much sense!!!1!! But why backing it, when we could eat rocks straight away!!1!1!!
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  2265.  @jackblades90  who is "we"?
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  2266.  @wengeance8962  it says in the first 3 words... you call yourself "us" ? Is it some "Royal we" or how many are you?
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  2267. It depends on your definition of communism or socialism. For US Americans a state run health insurance for everyone is already communism. In Europe communism is rather defined in other ways e.g. as a final step of a society without any private properties.
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  2268. People in Ukraine also want to live and work in peace ... but RuZZia doesn't let them.
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  2269. still it is situated north-east of Germany's centre point.
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  2270. Magdeburg recieves less rainfall than Tel Aviv and just a bit more than Santa Clara - yet evaporation might be not as high due to higher latitude.
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  2271. Well, sure it is not about the obvious Putin-Ruzzia attacking Ukraine!!1!!1!! no, it's is the fault of some dubious, nebulous guys in the West!!!1!! 😂🤣😂 Of course it is about resources! And it's about Putin's clique of oligarch fearing competition when Ukraine would exploit it's potential gas and oil reserves. I wonder what the Swiss would say if Italy would invade southern Switzerland, bomb Bern cathedral, block exports via Rhine, station nucs in Austria all out of "security concerns" and finally annex the Tession to "protect the Italian language"?
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  2272. People do use it. Though phrases like a certain shop "... hat Apothekenpreise" I do hear more often.
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  2273. well done, very informative video. The end was odd with suggesting or demanding to be "one people" and "grow together".
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  2274.  @MAKgargos  wie Feli am Anfang des Videos erklärt basiert Jiddish zu großen Teilen auf Alt und Mittel-Hochdeutsch. Hochdeutsch bedeutet hier z.B. dass die Lautverschiebung vollzogen wurde.
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  2275.  @MAKgargos  Ober- oder Hochdeutsch ist enstanden, weil es alle Lautverschiebungen vollzogen hat, während es im Niederdeutsch kaum zutrifft. Wenn Jiddish auf diesen hochdeutschen Dialekten basiert, hat es auch diese Lautverschiebungen umgesetzt. Werden nun in Nordamerika auch englische Worte und Begriffe ins Jiddische übernommen, ist es als Deutscher leichter sich dies durch die allgemein verbreiteten Englischkenntnisse zu erschließen, als sich die Worte über plattdeutsche Kognate herzuleiten. Ich kann wirklich kaum nachvollziehen, wie ein Hamburger Vorteile gegenüber einem Rheinländer haben soll beim Erschließen von Jiddisch.
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  2276.  @MAKgargos  ich kann keine Ähnlichkeit zu Plattdeutsch hören ... außer bei Worten, die aus dem Englischen übernommen wurden, denn English und Plattdeutsch sind sich näher. Mein Punkt war ja, das englische Worte im Jiddischen als solche leicht zu erkennen sind, weil i.d.R. ein Großteil der Deutschsprecher heutzutage auch über Englischkenntnisse verfügt. Den Umweg sich englische Worte über Plattdeutsch zu erschließen, macht wohl kaum einer. Modernes Englisch ist eben kein Platdeutsch. Zwar sind einige simple Worte ähnlich wie water or fish, doch heutiges English hat fast 50% französisches Vokabular. Bei Kognaten hat sich auch die Bedeutung verschoben: z.B. bei englisch 'town' und plattdeutsch 'Tuun' ist der gemeinsame Ursprung deutlicher als beim hochdeutschen 'Zaun' - dennoch bedeuten sie nicht mehr das Selbe. Englisch 'window' ist dem Plattdeutschen 'Windooge' ähnlich, doch das benutzt keiner mehr und 'Fenster' stattdessen.
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  2277. I don't get the reference that Arnold Schwarzeneger is "not even German but Austrian guy" in connection with WWII. Well, I guess the Austrian narrative that they were allegedly "the first victims" and "not part of the perpetrators" shows some effect here. Austrians were part of the attack on Poland as well and also joined the SS and commited brutal crimes. Let's not not forget this before we draw the next narrative of the Russians as the "true victims" in this recent war.
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  2278. this way of friendship building is not unique to Germans. You will find this in other central european countries or Scandinavia as well.
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  2279. In my opinion "Nicigkeit" sounds silly - though I can see why it could be used: " Nettigkeit" has a slightly negative connotation.
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  2280. introverted and working at a TV station in front of camera seems contradictive to me.
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  2281. bombing Ukrainian children is pathetetic humanity.
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  2282. ... and start with Putler first!
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  2283. yes, Trump is known to be smartest guy, yeah right!!!111!!!1!🤣😂🤣
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  2284. what would be Polish about it?
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  2285.  @BM-979  the Russian people living there in Russian style apartments blocks.
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  2286.  @BM-979  but they are there now! do you want 1 million (mainly) Russians within Poland to stir up constant unrest, because they don't have nothing better to do than to watch Putler'S and Wladimir Göbbelsowitsch Solowjow's propaganda.
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  2287. Sorry, these maps maybe give some background and orientation - but they certainly do not explain an invasion, destruction and the killing of innocent people.
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  2288. so Ukrainian refugees should also attack Ukraine and other Ukrainians to create even more refugees - makes totally sense!!1!11!!!1
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  2289. Sometimes interesting, that the historical world or univers is just composed out of England the US.
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  2290. Naja, Dialekt ist schon ziemlich speziell. Heutzutage trifft man doch allenfalls auf eine regional eingefärbte Umgangssprache.
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  2291.  @adamwe9984  bist du Fachjournalist?
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  2292.  @MrRuffythemonkey  , du so als Greenscreen-Fachmann, wie bekommt man die gleiche Lichtstimmung und Winkel mit dem Hintergrund hin?
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  2293.  @Dundoril  woran erkennt man hier den angeblichen GreenScreen?
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  2294.  @MrRuffythemonkey  warum sollte man für Youtube in einem RAW Format arbeiten?
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  2295.  @moniranik5674  if this video is typical and shows how little propaganda there is in today's Germany ... then bravo!
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  2296. what mess is there in Eastern Germany?!?
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  2297. what is lithuanian about it?
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  2298.  I Stand With Russia  People showing the "Z" I can't take seriously.
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  2299. Actually, it is better to deliver the baby already in the States - in this way it already has US citizenship.
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  2300. well, the reality in Russia is - there are many single mums, and guys leaving the woman alone, don't aknowlegde paternity and don't pay any alimony due to a weak position of women in the Russian legal sytem. He obviously has no idea of the situation of a potential mother in Russia.
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  2301.  @7gromojar  I'm reffering to the German pronounciation, since Oder-Neisse was written according to German spelling in the image and even "Oder" was pronouced the German way in the video.
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  2302.  @Vitalis94  how would you describe the German pronoucation of Neiße for an US American audience?
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  2303.  @Vitalis94  the same way as the "Neeca" pronouncation in the video sounds funny to me
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  2304. How many real nazis are in the Ukrainian Army? And is there a European Army not having a nazi problem? I doubt, this doesn't exist even in Russia. There was an Ukrainian bombardment on Crimea? These alternative "facts" are new? So letting Russia support terrorist in the Donbass and Luhansk for the last 8 years was an incite for Russia to invate? Man, this logic is more than crooked.
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  2305.  @niko-laus  maybe we should also find someone who has any information on this allegded bombartment. Obviously you can't even give any detail, if and when. What do you actually think about the right wing people joining the Russian army or the antisemits and rassists in the Russian govermental circle. Obviously that doesn't bother you at all?!
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  2306. @odds, "the Westerners" give a sh*t about Russia - but they even care less about Kaliningrad!!
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  2307. Who is "them"?
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  2308. Lemon, is it good or bad?
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  2309.  @goodman4093  the end is near!!!111!!111 Why worry about global warming and feeding everyone??
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  2310. Königsberg is German! Koningsbergen is Dutch !! Karaliaučius is Lithuanian !!!
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  2311. is their anything Polish in todays Kaliningrad?
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  2312.  @marunio1  some building built by Germans are still there, mainly outside the city centre. In the city centre little of the German prewar buildings survived or is still recognizable. The city gates and the stock exchange are still there and the Königsberg cathedral, rebuilt with aid from Germany. But the theatre is so transformed that it looks like any other classical soviet style theatre. I guess, in search for identy, there are some new buildings with fake wooden framework in the facade. But somehow Russian don't know the constructive background of these wooden frames, so that it looks already fake from far away. I think, they also brew beer with the name "Königsberg" as a brand. So, where would you find "Królewiec" in todays Kaliningrad??
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  2313. What is Ukrs? I've heard of Orks before...
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  2314. "We" should consider visiting a psychiatrist.
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  2315. which obviously almost all scientists reject.
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  2316. what ist Polish about Kaliningrad?
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  2317. so there is nothing Polish about today's city of Kallingrad, but the trees and the elks on the later city ground spoke Polish in the 10th century?! now, I got it.
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  2318. It really makes you wonder, how bread lasting for weeks can be achieved...?!?
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  2319. what you don't see but can expect is the dead of tens of thousands. ...and makes you wonder how many permille were those allegded "nazis" amoung them?!
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  2320. @Will, if Russia wants to do something good it could start at home with: 1.- Denazification of Russia 2.- Demilitarization of Russia and theb 3.- Stop the bombing, killing, rape, tortue etc. in Luhansk and Donetsk regions by Russian troops and Russia paid militia
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  2321. Przemo, is this a popular myth in Poland? In theory when would that happen that Königberg belonged to Poland? BTW, it is Koningsbergen in Dutch, Poroszország in Hungarian and Karaliaučiaus in Lithuanian - and that implies what?
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  2322. This is all theoretically... if a the father is really the father and so on...
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  2323. In my opion a town or city belongs to the people who inhabit it - not to some ancient king or chief. The German speaking population was responsible for the urban development of the place from fortified settlements to real cities. They made these places grow and prosper over centuries to the cities with a size of several hundred thousands which they are still today.
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  2324.  @bartlomiejfroncisz9103  for me it is hard to follow your thoughts, especially the connection mentioned to WW2. My point was that people who inhabit a city shaped and built the city and not a distant king who often not even lived in this town.
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  2325.  @bartlomiejfroncisz9103  still hard to follow... what has Warsaw to do with Wroclaw? German speakers or German speaking Jewish communities were historically a minority in Warsaw. After 1945 many names of the villages, towns and cities, also streets got new names in the new Poland. There were special commissions for renaming. And this also applied for Danzig, Breslau and Stettin. Their modern Polish are oriented on earlier West Slavic versions of their names or on Polish names for them in modern times, but they are not absolutely identical with the names in the oldest records. You would come to the same conclusion when you read carefully the wikipedia articles you posted.
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  2326. I had exactly the same thought as Alejandro.
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  2327. is there a proof or source for this story?
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  2328. what a madness, what a fuzz just to have a handfull houses in some colored zone.
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  2329. what kind of left wing in the west should that be? In Europe no leftwing party push for a war. And in the US leftwing doesn't even exist.
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  2330. Long time ago it belongs to the Neanderthal people - since current poulations in Asia have a higher percentage of Neanderthal DNA this peace of land would be the best in Asia!!!11!!!11
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  2331.  @amuroray2505  this was sarcastic- and as logical as the argument about the suggested addition to Lithuania.
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  2332.  @amuroray2505  in a central European context adding a wild combination of exclamation marks with numbers is an indicator. This is often done by over excited or outraged internet commentators who write a bunch of nonsense with no real reasoning.
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  2333.  @actin9294  there were two different things: first, a larger administrate state called Prussia covering almost half of the area of today's Germany. Secondly a smaller geographical region, namely East Prussia around today's Kaliningrad.
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  2334.  @actin9294  no, Brandeburg was only a province or region within the State of Prussia - the same way East Prussia around Königsberg was a province/ region within it.
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  2335. It is the people in Ukraine who are suffering. Period.
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  2336.  @rusername  Everything is fine for the those people who were drafted?!? Don't get your point....
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  2337.  @rusername  have you been to Ukraine recently?
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  2338. not many, because Thatcher and Mitterand didn't have this thoughts.
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  2339.  @gmaacentralfounder  the Germans in Lower Sileasia like in Wroclaw /Breslau were forcefully expelled. And when they fled the bombing and fighting they were not allowed to return to their hometowns.
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  2340.  @martini604  do you mind writing sentences?! Otherwise nobody has a clue what you mean...
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  2341.  @gmaacentralfounder  on the territory of the new Poland 8 million Germans were effected by that ... this is not a "small number". Cities like Stettin even had a new German mayor after the collapse of n*zi regime, until he had to go himself after half a year or so. Nobody forced the new Polish administration to expell nearly the entire population of these regions. What also throws a bad light on it, is the fact that often weird racist motivated lists of the n*zis were the base for the expulsion. Of course civilians fled the concrete actions of the front line, bombing, fighting, revenge and rape ... but many wanted to return home once the war was over. You can see a similar situation in Ukraine where people fleeing the fighting but are eager to return home when it is possible
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  2342. ​ @gmaacentralfounder if your version is true, then half of the population would have stayed in the gained territories and there descendants would still live there. In reality, despite the traditionally mixed area in Upper Sileasia and a few Kashubian communities there is no German population left in today's Poland.
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  2343. In Germany it is common to eat fried liver with mashed potatoes, fried onions and apples. There is also liver pâté as shown in the video. Kidneys became out of fashion nowadays and where more popular when I was younger. Horse meat can be bought, but only from certain butchers. The well known dish 'Westfälischer Sauerbraten" is originally made from horsemeat. Sausages with horse meat are also common. Wild boar is used as roast, goulash or for sausages. Though the use of any brain is highly regulated in the EU since the BSE scandal. There are still traditional "brain sausages" (or "Bregenwurst" in North German) on sale - but I believe they had to change the recipe and there is brain content anymore.
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  2344. If it is sooo easy for Russian companies to produce the same stuff, then why they haven't done this in the last 30 years? ....and instead costly imported these products.
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  2345. ... anymore.
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  2346. Ihle is a name of small river in my home region in Northern Central Germany. German family names appeared around 1500s. Most of the times they name the profession people had: Schmidt (=smith), Müller (=miller), Mayer (=farm tendant or cheese maker), Schulze (mayor) , but also Eisenhower (from Eisenhauer= iron smith) or Hoover (from Huber=independent farmer). Then follow by names which are characteristics like Klein (or Cline = small), Schwarzkopf (=black head) or Braun (=brown), but also patronyms like Petersen (son of Peter) or Wilke (son of William) and finally where people came from when they moved and therefore geographical places like Kissinger (probably originally from the town of Kissingen) or even from the area of the river Ihle.
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  2347. What are you taking about the "East"? From an overall European perspective the Eastern part of Germany is pretty average.
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  2348. I don't see many hospitable, warm people listen to Russians with little emphaty for Ukrainians being bombed and how they don't care as long as they are not drafted and nobody attacks Russia.
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  2349.  @nerd1000ify  there are also neo nazis in Russia. Who would invate Russia using this excuse?
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  2350.  @mery_s_derevni  I only see a few who decide what to do and what to say in public
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  2351. have you ever wondered why historically no Poles lived there, if it was allegedly "Poland"?!?
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  2352. oilwell, obviously you haven't seen real Russian tv and their absurd level of propaganda. In comparison this is as liberal and as less propaganda as it can get within Russia. You can not compare Russian media with Western standards.
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  2353. but a dialect as hard to understand as Swiss German.
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  2354. This interviews into Putlers face!! That is the result he created! Not even in Central or Western Europe people would think this positivly about the US.
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  2355. )) it is probably what Solojow just told the Russian public (or screams as usual) in Russian prime time TV.
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  2356. Where is the connection of Kalinigrad and Poland? - I don't get it.
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  2357. Prussia was part of Germany.
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  2358. True, it is far away from the front line, Russia mostly don't show emphaty for people dying in Ukraine plus no media will notice these protests because it is somewhere in nowhere.
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  2359. he is already there, born in Leningrad: Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Putler!
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  2360.  @Wolftiras  which master? and who is driving? I don't even have a car!
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  2361.  @Wolftiras  I don't play computer games either. You should look for someone else to play with.
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  2362. Yasty, Putler has been planning this war for years. Why didn't he support local producers more?? I was surprised to see so many Western products at all, since he has been campaining against EU imports for years from chicken to who knows what...
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  2363. I hope, you will be right...
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  2364.  @rasheednode  as usual? I've never met you before - nor do I have a war or know what category "Whites" are compared to.... People who talk of themselves as "we" combined with other jibberish are highly dubious to me.
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  2365. Where do you get this narrative from? Is Solowjow telling such stuff on Ruzzian state tv? And what would a mother fleeing with her child to a "nazi"? And what makes another woman with her child "normal"? What the indication for this?
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  2366. by bombing them?
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  2367. What is over?
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  2368. Actually, in a normal German family you are expeced to help with the dishes. Children are usually educated to set the table with plates and silverware and to take their plates to the dishwasher or kitchen after dinner. This doesn't apply for guests. But if you are a nice guest / good friend you will offer to help with the dishes as well.
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  2369. which city would that be? And how do you determine "white"?
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  2370. what about incorporating a bad wolf, a witch and dragon into your story? it would be even more scary...
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  2371.  @Wild-Siberia  well, not for Europeans... you need to apply for a visa together with an invitation of a person residing in Russia or an attestation of a hotel where and when exactly you staying in advance. This makes it not easy for people who don't know anybody in Russia or want to discover unplanned the country on their own. Additionally there are warnings for people with dual citizenship: those who have also Russian citizenship can be drafted right at entering Russia. Also there warnings to visit regions neighbouring Ukraine or traveling Crimea. Electronical short term visa are not available anymore. Also EU citizens can experience hour long questions at the border or even arrest without reasoning. You have to keep in mind that Europeans can travel freely on most of the continent, in 27 countries they even have to show a passport or there is no border control. In other they don't to have to apply for a visa. They don't spend several hundreds of euros on a visa but rather on their travel. The condition for travelling Russia are just off-putting. Well, I guess this might be also the intentions from the Russian administration.
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  2372. Your comment sounds somehow piggish ... I wonder why?
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  2373. Just don't buy it - it is not a drug.
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  2374. ​@Lelourwhy?
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  2375. You have to be raised in East or West Germany or in East or West Berlin to realize the small differences, small details or clues which indicates which was which part. I doubt that a foreigner, especially someone from overseas like an American will notice this details. He or she will stroll through Berlin city center not realizing how many times he or she just crossed the former border.
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  2376. though many of the German multi-cereal breads have a wheat flour base.
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  2377.  @sanchu6335  so, you basically saying that you can find them ib Sweden, too. They are not common in Germany, Denmark or Russia, and by far not in the UK. In the last you stll often find single glass windows.
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  2378.  @sanchu6335  maybe on single new projects, but in the masses of existing houses.
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  2379. if you eat for free, live in palaces for free and brought by a chaffeur for free, get nice presents from oligarchs, then 700 usd as pocket money is fairly okay.
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  2380. ​ @liambyrne591 how would you know her husband is English. He could Welsh, Scottish or Irish as well.
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  2381.  @liambyrne591  People in Northern Ireland consider themselves overwhelmingly as Irish, but are also British citizens and hold a British passport. British Isles is a set geographical term, if you like it or not or it might have some connotations. Irish, Scotsmen or Welsh have their own identify without speaking a Celtic language most of the time.
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  2382.  @liambyrne591  e.g. look at the wikipedia article
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  2383.  @liambyrne591  you claimed that common geographical terms do not apply to you and your agenda, not me. You raised questions and claims, not me. I could care less for your agenda.
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  2384.  @liambyrne591  ....and this has what to do with the video?
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  2385. Turkish or Arabic words are only found in slang among youngsters of this migration background or in neighborhood where a large number of people with Turkish or Arabic origin live. These terms are not as mainstream as using word of English origin. You will find slang with Turkish or Arabic words in "Kiezdeutsch" or so-called "Kanak Sprak" where you see other phenomena like sentences without article or preposition: "Rufst du Handy?"
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  2386. ​ @martini604 most likely a dark shaded area around Moscow and a few dots in the US.
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  2387.  @martini604  it's not funny - it is just about the highest chance of likelyhood. Kidnapped childred were given to families where they grew up, many not knowing about their fate. Also often children where seperated through fleeing and expulsion from their families. The latter also happens through the expulsion of the German population from the new Poland and Kaliningrad oblast..
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  2388.  @chrisrauber6602  I feel even the thumbnail give a bias picture: the ones fleeing west as a money greedy bunch and those fleeing east loyal and trusting in Mother Russia who will care. Those narrative quickly become an allegory, why some Ukrainians favour the west and other are "loyal" to the East. I guess, Real Reporter is the most you can expect from journalist inside Ruzzia today, but still a stale aftertaste remains.
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  2389. I 've never been to China but encounter Chinese tourists. I do believe, that there are so many people and you will most likely not meet a person a second time - there is no real benefit of being kind. I believe Chineses are very friendy and respectful to family and friends, tp people who they really know.
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  2390. Did you know, when East Prussia belonged to Germany it was a very fertile region producing a lot of grain and feeding much of Germany?!
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  2391. Even for RuZZia it makes no sense to throw in more and more dead bodies and conquer burnt, devasted strips of land only filled with rubble.
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  2392.  @weiyishen  clearly, when listen to Putler: Ukraine has allegedly no right to exist and should be return to the "Russian world".
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  2393.  @tyroneslothrop123  there is no hatred from me. It is just simple analysis of the speeches Putin gave publicly - for everyone accessible on TV and still on youtube. What drives Putler I can't tell you: if it is hatred, craving for more power, greed, disillusion? ... nobody knows, the entire planet has been puzzled for one and a half year.
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  2394.  @tyroneslothrop123  I watch some of the speeches live with a native Russian translating parallelly. Some of this was so absurd there was context needed - it would make no decent sense anyhow ... and I did ask myself for which audience he is aiming. It seem his texts was written by a German right wing conspiracy theorist. Or maybe he think that those guys are his allies and therefore he uses that nonsense?!
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  2395.  @tyroneslothrop123  I see where it going: using some "foreplay" to excuse the invasion without asking who forced the foreplay and adding some whataboutism as well like blaming some dubious "west". The sad thing of this whole soup opera of this war is that it has so many parallels to dictators and invasions in the 1930's 1940's.
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  2396.  @tyroneslothrop123  frohes Schaffen! Ich hab Urlaub und die Fahrt im ICE is noch lang...
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  2397. Who has taken East Germany back? And expensive for whom?
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  2398.  @havel21  that means East Germany is one part property of Mr. Reagan and the other part belongs to Mr. Kohl. Since both are dead already who inherited those pieces?
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  2399. Though the Alsatian ancestors of Pete and alike spoke more German than French.
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  2400. Where is this story from?
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  2401.  @t-r-ex2087  I'm German and I don't come from Scandinavia. Are you????
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  2402.  @t-r-ex2087  sorry, dein ganzer Kommentar ist Quatsch. Vielleicht kommen die Ursprünge der heutigen deutsche Sprache daher. Aber mehr sinnvolles kann ich da nicht reininterpretieren.
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  2403.  @t-r-ex2087  die heutige Deutschen bestehen aber nur zu einem kleinen Teil aus "Germanischen" Vorfahren. Lies mal ein bisschen über Archäologie basierend auf Genanalysen im letzten Jahrzehnt. Demnach ist z.B. in der Genmischung bei Leuten in Bayern der größte Anteil basierend auf keltischen Erbgut.
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  2404. Where do you get this imformation from, that Russian or Slavs were ever Natives in the Kalinigrad region prior to 1945??
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  2405. who needs bilionaires? They usually consume less locally and just park their fortune on Swiss bank accounts or in tax havens overseas. Having 2000 people with half a million is much better for Polish economy than one bilionaire.
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  2406. 🤣😂🤣
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  2407. ... und tschüsss, Eduard!
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  2408.  @eduardwerner866  FYI, wir haben 2022 und eine Dritte Welt gibt es nicht, weil die Zweite Welt sich bereits vor über 30 Jahren aufgelöst hat. Denk mal drüber nach, während du deine Sachen packst ... ;-)
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  2409.  @eduardwerner866  Ich kann mich nicht erinnern das´s zu Zeiten der Migrationskrise und Ausbau der einseitigen Energieversorgung die Ampel in der Regierungsverantwortung war ... vielleicht eher in deiner Einbildung.
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  2410.  @eduardwerner866  alle sind schuld, außer Eduard!!!111!!11 schon klar!!!1!! Aber ist ja auch bald weg!
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  2411. being Austrian is even more worrying.
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  2412. Er hatte Plattdeutsch, Berlinerisch, Sächsisch, und das mehr schlecht als recht. In MV sind die ersten beiden vertreten in LSA alle drei. Ihn jetzt noch eine minimale zwischen Nuance nachmachen zu lassen, hätte nicht viel Mehrwert gebracht.
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  2413. I disagree, regarding the large number of German speaking immigrants the left relativly a small mark on the US. Considering how proud German speaking folks were on their craftsmanship and traditions there is relativly little to be observed of it in the States today. The ruling class and decision makers were English speakers and their traditions, customs etc. ruled and continued. The Germans or other Central Europeans were rather the underdog s, often look down on like the Irish - and therefore eager to fit in, integrate and not to stick out.
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  2414. in which way?
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  2415. very interesting alternative facts - who would have know thought that the English have entirely Danish genes? I guess, not even the English knew that...
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  2416. Within the EU it wouldn't matter that much if a district is German, Lithuanian or Polish. The problem for Kaliningrad is, that Russia is so isolated due to its policy.
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  2417.  @cyrildewaha  , thanks for pointing out. What is the "ë" in Lëtzebuergesch actually good for? Whether it is a language or a dialect depents on your point of view and your criteria. What makes it a language for you compared with other Moselle Franconian dialects?
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  2418. But this was just a minority. Even the Slavic Sorbians East of the Oder river were expelled, because they were "too German" and "too little Polish" by the new Polish administration. This might be also not taught in schools.
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  2419. there are so many parallels.
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  2420. the level of complain is still beyond what you will find in the States.
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  2421. 😂🤣😂 seriously?! So Merkel was a socialist? 😂
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  2422. Have you tried staring back? Often they do it subconsciously and if you stare back they realize.
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  2423. the originial baltic population was assimilated into German society over the centuries and as all inhabitans completly expelled from the territory after 1945. If you are referring with original population to the Neanderthal, that would be a different story.
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  2424. where exactly?
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  2425. It far from the truth that the right wing AfD gained seats in parlament because of East Germans. Two thirds of the AfD voters live in the former Western Germany - they brought merely this party in the Bundestag. With the votes for the AfD from East Germany only the party were not able to take a 5%-hurdle and would not be in the parlament at all.
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  2426.  @harrydehnhardt5092  no, it hasn't! In the the last general election for the German Bundestag 3.9 million voters voted for AfD in area of former West Germany, while 1.9 million voters in the area of former East Germany voted for AfD. Now, you do the math: if 1.9 is more than 3.9 ?! Btw, you need 2.3 million votes to take the 5 % hurdle.
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  2427. Actually, the Russian medias lies are so absurd, grotesk, obvious and self contradictory - they make western media lies look subtle and elegant in comparision.
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  2428. mainy dairy products, too.
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  2429. milk soup brought back long forgotten memories of the food made by my grandma in Germany.
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  2430. ... and in Russia some people think it is normal to bomb civilian of other countries, no matter what gender, no matter what age, if child or senior. May god help us that this will stop and never get normal.
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  2431.  @clarapvalente  Who are you to draw conclusion about me? Do we know eachother? I doubt it. What guys like you do, is called "Whataboutismus". Russia needs to cross the border and invate another country in order to protect its territory?!? Pardon me - What?!?? Protect from who? Why? Wtf- do you actually realize what kind of nonsense you are writing here?
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  2432. Don't forget with Crimea and the souther Ukrainian coast he will own big chunks of the Black see with more oil and gas reserves expected. That surely drives Putin and his oligarch clique as well.
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  2433. Your logic is special: so German speaking Prussian Hohenzollern kings are "German", while German speaking Austrian Hapsburg kings before them are not German in your logic. And German speaking merchants and mayors of Danzig who were keen on their autonomy and privileges since the piece of Thorn of 1460 are apparently not "German". Well okay, if it fits the historical denial...
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  2434. what has Poland to do with it?
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  2435. First, don't forget Russia supported and financed a civil war for a long time with the intention of destabilisation of the region. It is true that some Russian speaking Ukrainian Citizen demanded more rights or autonomy. But with devastation of Russian bombing the support for Russia dwindled and support for the Ukrainian state increased. Secondly, the statement that Ukraine killed "killed tens of thousands" of people needs some fact check, too? Were there really so many civilians killed - or were the vast majority armed rebells, Russian financed militia and mercenaries or Russian soldiers?!
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  2436.  @bengan9613  ...und um daran zu erinnern muss man Ukrainer ausbomben und Zivilisten töten?! Ich glaube nicht.
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  2437. All the other countries which prefer sparkling water.
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  2438. The rest of Europe is puzzled how and why Putler started this senseless war ... and they can't find an answer and come up with new theories every week, while many Ruzzian just repeat the obviously weirdest propaganda Russian state tv gave them.
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  2439. Sam is very eloquent.
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  2440. what is Lithuanian about it?
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  2441.  @stefanostokatlidis4861  maybe these are Old Prussian names, whuch sound similar to Lithuaniun - have you thought of this? And what wrong about using a name of an existing small village, when you build a new town next to it?
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  2442. who is "them"?
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  2443.  @EricEscander  I doubt that there are Danes alive who remember those times.
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  2444. Wieviel Prämie gibt es eigentlich, wenn man im ersten Satz des Reportage auch ja das Wort "Norddeutschland" unterbringt? Egal, ob es nun thematisch zu Beton passt oder nicht ... und ob es im nächsten Satz ums Weser-BERGland geht, die Prämie nimmt man sicher gerne mit, oder?!
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  2445. yeah, ... and Ruzzians are all about bombing inferior nations !!1!!!1!! What stupid assumptions and generalisations.
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  2446. warum fängst du nicht schon mal damit an?
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  2447. I come from the northeastern part of Germany and my favourite dishes would be: schnitzel with white aspargus and brown butter fried trout Müllerin style fried liver Berlin style with mashed potatoes roasted duck with kale fried flounder with fried potatoes and roulades (beef wraps)
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  2448. But what is there to spy in Siberian woodlands?
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  2449. I liked Mrs Ettingers views and I also disgree that Putler just can own and use Soviet history to his likings and for his propaganda. Ukrainians also fought against the nazis and there are still veterans in Ukraine alive.
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  2450. @whateverrandomnumber in German these are forests (Forst): tree plantations of fast growing; commercially usable timber. A naturally grown mixture of trees is considered "woodland" (Wald) in German.
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  2451. insulation would be first issue what comes into my mind.
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  2452. even Swedes don't eat this.
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  2453. Why would American English have more idioms?
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  2454. when was Germany a leader ?
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  2455.  @SWalkerTTU  interesting, I've never came acrossthe double meaning of diet so far as in Imperial Diet.
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  2456. I don't get it. Isn't the daughter called /spelled "Jenny" without any G at all?
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  2457.  @scottlarson1548  okay, now I got it. Still I'm not convinced about this as a general rule since I have no idea how someone in German will pronounce "Gin" or "Jeans" without this sound. Both words do exist in German. Schwarzenegger has a Carinthian accent: not all he says applies for all German speaking regions. I was just confused because "G" can be spoken with the greatest variety of sounds in German: as a clear G in the beginning, as almost a K in the end, as a soft CH in like in "Hamburg", as harsh CH after a and in various dialects as J-sound like in yodelling. Plus the sound you referring to which often appears in words borrowed from Italian.
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  2458. I wonder, who that guy "the west" is and would kind of lies that should be he is telling? I 've never heard anything about Sljudjanka in any media before ... not even lies 😂!
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  2459. A First and Third World are outdated terms. First, because the Second World (communist block) does not exist anymore ... and secondly, ranking worlds sounds arrogant and derogatory.
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  2460. Coca Cola is just a symbol. An in the end sanctions are more about technology transfer and heavy machinery from the West. And this is nothing you would see in a display of a supermarket.
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  2461. that is completely new: I haven't seen a piece of Poland for sale in my local German Aldi so far. Ridiculous PiS propaganda.
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  2462. people in Ukraine LOOSE their lifes - let's not forget about it.
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  2463. Russia is the largest country in the world. If this would be just half of its original size and it would double again, there would be nothing left of Europe and Asia to host any other country! There is something wrong in your logic.
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  2464. But not in Europe.
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  2465. when?
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  2466.  @mariusmario6725  when would that be?
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  2467. and has this to do with a supermarket video?
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  2468. ... and where would that be in the "west"?
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  2469. I doubt a bit that British streets have numbers 3,5,7,9 going in one direction and 46,48,50 in the opposite direction. That sounds odd. In Germany in old cities you will find streets with numbers 1,2,3,4,5 .... counting every house on one side of the street in one direction until the end of the street (lets say 50) and then counting back on the other side of the street 51,52,53,... With Napoleon and the French occupation they changed the system (with is still standard today). On the left side of the street you will find the uneven numbers 1,3,5, 9 and on the right side the even numbers 2,4,6,8 - but always counting in the same direction (away from city centre or the main street).
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  2470. I wonder why someone should use a bitter green for the recipe since sorrel is rather sour. Funny to hear that it hard to get in the States since it is a weed in Central Europe and can be found on nearly every meadow.
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  2471. of course, New Amsterdam was re-named New York.
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  2472.  @51tomtomtom  this is bean counting since changing a name is also called "renaming" in English.
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  2473. what a generalisation.
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  2474. Fun fact: the most common version of these eggs in Germany today are called "Russian Eggs".
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  2475. Though a number of Russia-Germans moved to Kalinigrad after 1991. They didn't want to leave Russia but wanted to be closer to relatives in Germany.
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  2476. yeah right, after Adamski and Evata ate from the apple and had to leave paradies, they lived with the Polish speaking snake in Königsberg for millenia. yeah, sounds very plausible!!111!!1!!
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  2477. yes, maybe you can find traces of German heritage in the States, but very little ... and in my opinion, compared to the big number of German immigrants they left fairly little impact on the USA of today. I guess, it could be partly because they were never the ruling class and at times rather looked down on like the Irish. In other areas of Europe where German settled through the centuries they often left a larger food print. It is also strange regarding that Germans were often proud craftmen, there is fairly little to be recognized in the US ... except maybe for beer brewing and breweries or for musical instrument building like Steinway & Sons. I'm myself are from the birthplace of General von Steuben: Magdeburg - which was also the bithplace of the Ecke family who were the first who commercially bred pointsettia and made it to the popular christmas plant which it is today.
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  2478. can they just say the found and killed this "nazi" they were looking for and go home? this nightmare must end!
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  2479. Though the Island isn't big, you can the island much more when you stay longer than the 4 hours (on the island) a day trip gives you. Staying overnight with all the day trip tourists gone is the true joy, watching seals, sea birds and sun seat quietly.
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  2480. How much does Nato pay per person for going to a demonstration?? Does the amount depend how many hours you protest? Do you get the money after the demonstration with the non-existent Swift-money transfer? Or do you get paid with CocaCola? Or does the Russian police give out cash after arresting?
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  2481. This is an over exaggerated stereotype. Yes, you can find certain names more often in certain regions. A Malte or a Hauke is most likely from the north while a Maximilian, Xaver or Leopold is most like from the south. And for example a Doreen or a Mandy was more likely born in the GDR. There was a fashion to give children "exotic" names like Ronny in the East (sounds English) and on the other hand Boris in the West (sounds Russian). But anyhow, not all East Germans just have Anglo names. The bulk of guys will still be called Thorsten, Dirk, Michael or Martin no matter if they are from the East or West. The same goes for Susanne, Stefanie or Katrin: you will find plenty of them East and West. Saying that, there is a slightly higher chance, that a Katrin is from the East while a Katharina is from the West. The same goes for Steffen and Stefan: slightly higher chance that the first is from the East and the later from the West. But those could be just regional preferences as well like Hauke and Xaver from the beginning.
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  2482. you always have to consider what the locals earn in these other countries.
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  2483. It depens on your field of work and the area. 72 K sounds alot for some business fields and regions.
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  2484. That is relative... The English of Germans could be often better than the English of French, Spaniards, Italians or Russians of the same age.
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  2485. never heard of Ireland as 'white Africa' - I think, it is made up.
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  2486. Sounds like a weird conspiracy theory that the EU is secretly installing a decision in Poland by building outside toilet in one part...😂
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  2487. Only Brits can come up with cucumber ice cream. And poor German Carl Wilhelm Scheele to have his name butchered in the video.
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  2488. Bvikal - is this the fish?
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  2489.  @dimaringdead  okay, sorry, I got it. I was mistaken by the spelling... is "gud" actually Russian word, btw ?
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  2490.  @dimaringdead  good is "gut" in German - not "gud".
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  2491. Germany, Autria, Switzerland, Czech Repuplic is considered Central Europe. Poland and Hungary, too - but there the label Eastern Europe appears more often.
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  2492.  @jg5755  having a higher water content makes the butter not last so long and get rancid earlier. Adding salt prevents that ... but also less water makes the water last longer, but in an industrial perspective: water is cheaper than fat.
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  2493. Have you spoken with a lot of Ukrainians or at least a few, if they want to be "one people" with you? There is so much bitterness among them that Russians don't even care that people in Ukraine are bombed. And they rightfully ask if they could ever live again respectfully with such neighbors?!
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  2494.  @CePbIu_noPox  thanks for the map. Is there a meaning behind your post?
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  2495. why don't you move to Antarctica? - noone there to bother you.
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  2496.  @LogiForce86  is it ? According to the international Antarctic Treaty no military usage of this area is allowed. But if there things happen which are only suitable for adults is up to you - once you move there.
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  2497.  @LogiForce86  your grandmother negotiates agrrements between NATO and Russia? Very special story....
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  2498.  @LogiForce86  everything on the internet is true!!!!11!!1!!!
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  2499. yet, he was able to ... and this pretty comfortly. 80-year old Olga is still hiding in her cellar in Mariupol. Maybe he can't do anything about it, but he can aknowledge it.
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  2500. I wonder how Nietsche and Marx actively spread their philosophy ?!?
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  2501. Back to "Czech Republic" ?!?
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  2502.  @plus5514  KING Ottokar and Czech REPUPBLIC - do you notice there something? ;-)
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  2503.  @plus5514  well, first, the inhabitans of Kalingrad need exposed to Czech beer propaganda for years - that they can't image a life without corner pubs and knedlík anymore.
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  2504. Who is "our"? I'm sure before humans migrated to Euro there was already Poland!!11!11 Honestly, do they teach this stuff in Polish schools?? Do you realize, before "Germans" came to the Kaliningrad grounds , there was no town, city or place like this?!
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  2505.  @DaDunge  plus they are christians as well and one could say the French goverment are nazis because Marine Le Pen exists!11!11!!11
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