Future of Kaliningrad Oblast - is it possible to annex by Poland or will it become an independent country?

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@GefreiterKania

Whatever brings you Poles joy.

I hope that now when Kaliningrad - that parody of a city - became Królewiec - Kónigsberg again, Russians will do sth to improve its appearance coz now it is a Soviet monster with ugly blocks of flats everywhere.

Check photos in 95 and 96 comparing Królewiec to Gdańsk - like two different worlds.

Yuk!

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In all fairness, we have our share of commie blocks too...

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... it's not all piers, beaches and historic tenements here.

We'd have had them even if communism had never existed.

Urbanisation brings blocks and if you think PRL era ones are bad, go,to ultra-capitalistic Hong Kong and see some of the awful homes there.

It doesn`t matter. All Polish cities have such areas due to urbanisation etc. But your city of Gdańsk has also the amazing Old Town. While Królewiec has shyt because barbarian Soviet hordes rebuilt nothing and even destroyed everything what was still standing after the war.

Gdańsk` architecture

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And pictures don't even do it justice - you have to come here and see it for yourself. Walk into the churches and cathedrals, visit the parks and the beaches, breathe the atmosphere of modernity mixed with the past; breathe freedom, because Gdańsk is - in so many ways - a free city.

Can one be in love with a city? Because I think I am. :)

I did, with the family, spent 2 weeks in Gdańsk and visited everything what we could about 12 years ago.


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But you weren`t born there. :):)

Parts of Wrzeszcz are like that. A nice place to go for a walk in.

And Gdynia us underrated whereas Sopot is the opposite.

Definitely. And Oliwa as well, with the Cathedral, park and historic tenements as well as ultra-modern Oliva Business Park, University library or Garnizon estate.


Very much underrated! Gdynia, if you know what to look for, is an orgasm for a modern urban architecture fans.

No, but my children were. That's one thing (apart from having such a great father) that I really envy them. :)

Especially on top of the hill. All that avant-gard 20s architecture by some of the best architects in Poland.

Krolewiec was probably once like that.

The ruins of Królewiec Castle were blown up by Soviets in 1960s. Instead, they built the Communist Party House which has always remained unused due to faulty construction. Amasing!

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Reminds me a bit of Pyongyang

@Aniel
have you been in Pyongyang?

No, but they also have such a big super hotel that hasn't been used.

That symbolises communist standards quite well. The whole city is such.


On second thought, I doubt it. Local Russians don`t feel connected with the city and the area at all. To them it is an alien culture.