DISCLAIMER: THIS VIDEO DOES NOT ADVOCATE ANY SECESSIONIST MOVEMENT REGARDING THE AREA(S) IN QUESTION. THE CREATOR WILL BEAR NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY SEPARATIST EVENTS WHICH RESEMBLE ITEMS SUGGESTED AT ANY POINT IN THE VIDEO.

happy 2021, and here it is! an essay i wrote mid november, recorded late november, edited late december, and released early january. subtitles by wamlart/schokolade gd forthcoming, and i suppose yall can consider this a 300 sub special? shoutout to axinity for suggesting for me to narrate this in the first place

anyways onto the content. as of late i've been quite engrossed in geopolitics, particularly on the subject of separatism and secession. and i'd always had this habit of 'night writing', i.e. writing about stuff at late night. usually it's just an extended diary, but sometimes i dabble with other topics, and one day i decided to explore the possibility of kaliningrad becoming an independent country. after all, it's russia's only exclave in mainland europe, and historically it's never really been very spiritually connected to the motherland.

also, according to the setting-down of the oder-neisse line after ww2, germany is legally not allowed to 'take back' any territory east of that line (which today corresponds to the poland-germany border), so german annexation isn't really an option either. and neither poland nor lithuania seem willing to incorporate a bunch of russians into their territory, so not many other options remain on the table.

let me know what you guys think of it in the comments, and what i could improve in terms of content. probably not gonna make anything more fancy than a powerpoint (because i frankly don't have the time), but you could suggest other aspects that i may have missed. audio quality isn't gonna get any better tho because i'm recording with the mic on my headset and i don't have the funds to get a proper microphone, like a blue yeti or something

also i made a blog where i'm gonna be posting future essays before i narrate and edit them into video, so if you wanna check that out, here it is: [ Ссылка ]

and yes i know the flag is mirrored in the thumbnail but i wouldn't be able to show the fortress if i edited it in the right way around
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CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro
01:54 Geography
02:08 History & Etymology
02:47 Demographics, Language
03:47 Key Questions
04:52 Government Position
05:41 Name
06:56 Language (Script, Vocabulary, Syntax)
09:42 Currency
10:54 European Union Accession (criteria fulfillment)
13:22 Economy & Industries
15:40 Military
16:20 Population, Projected Demographics
18:02 Land
18:47 International Relations
19:53 Is there a desire?
23:12 Andrey Klemeshev
24:31 Religion + other obstacles

25:11 Essay ends
25:22 Flag
26:46 Creeping Germanization?
27:48 Kaliningrad and the pandemic
28:24 Kaliningrad & Belarus
29:03 Possible Putin step-down?
29:28 Outro


#Kaliningrad #Konigsberg #Russia #Poland #Lithuania

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