“A four-alarm fire in Downtown Moscow clears way for a glorious new tractor factory, And, on the lighter side of the news, Hundreds of Capitalists are Soon to Perish in Shuttle Disaster.“ ~Airplane II
Effective-Anteater24 on
Beauty of the buildings
Gone like the river’s blueness
The everlasting greyness
Dominates the sky
CraftyFoxeYT on
OP too lazy to get a pic from 2026
sunkencathedral on
Immanuel Kant’s home. Big respect.
Just-Cardiologist837 on
Disgusting imho..
It was beautiful before.
nhogan84 on
HUGE downgrade
tmr89 on
The Russian World really is something!
JanGuillosThrowaway on
Viborg might be even worse. Russia took over developed parts of Europe and turned them into Mordor, now they want to do it again
maxwellgrounds on
Russki Mir – Coming to a town near you.
my_comment-account on
Absolutely castrated
yungandreww on
awful.
dodgersndabs on
Looks like jersey lol
IllAppointment419 on
Confident_Boss2081 on
looks like shit now
SimpleGuy7 on
A city dies..
aversekld on
Kaliningrad is my hometown – ask me anything.
AdRepulsive792 on
2019 was 6 year’s ago not now.
Necessary-Prune9727 on
I never thought trees could make a place look so dead
surpris_dingue on
triste
SonCloud on
Lots of european cities, especially in germany made the same development. Berlin being the best example but I guess that is what the germans get for starting 2 world wars. If you ever visit germany, go to Dresden. That is how Berlin could’ve looked like on a bigger scale.
t0m4_87 on
Wrong title: now vs then
Dr_Bonejangles on
It was much more beautiful in 41!
freshcoastghost on
Ouch….. as bad as it gets.
mbieren on
After the rape of the city in 1945 I wonder that there is anything left of it
Notagenyus on
Yikes. Reading through the comments, it seems an alarming number of people either lack a basic understanding of world history, or are doing some epic trolling.
I hope the latter.
jai_hos on
it got ugly
Flat_Bag_8959 on
Don’t start a world war if you don’t want this happen to your cities. Soviets erased German texture on purpose.
plasteroid on
Moral of the story: Don’t be Hitler. It’s his fault. It was actually a major German military hub for the eastern front.
Stridatron27 on
what a downgrade…
sl4lrodi on
Hmm, wonder what happened in 1941… reddit is doing reddit
Solo-me on
Why?
Crocoi on
Tragedy
CriticismJust9271 on
Now that’s a dystopian future! What a shame, it was once so beautiful 🙁
mosa_kota on
I always thought the biggest travesty of post WWII was letting USSR keep **Kaliningrad**. Europe spent the war learning that incoherent borders and imperial outposts cause endless conflict, then immediately created a heavily militarised Russian exclave with zero local consent between Poland and Lithuania. Entire population expelled, no vote, no demilitarisation, just raw power ratified at **Potsdam Conference**.
Absolute genius. Who could have predicted this would ever cause problems.
Aesthetics aside, this is a city that was so important, politically, trade wise, scientifically and culturally, home to extremely important philosophers, mathematicians and physicists, one of the great cities of Europe…
…and then it was bombed during WW2, ethnically cleansed by the USSR, and became a completely irrelevant backwater that most people forget the existence of.
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This is what we got for killing Harambee.
The Russian dream
“A four-alarm fire in Downtown Moscow clears way for a glorious new tractor factory, And, on the lighter side of the news, Hundreds of Capitalists are Soon to Perish in Shuttle Disaster.“ ~Airplane II
Beauty of the buildings
Gone like the river’s blueness
The everlasting greyness
Dominates the sky
OP too lazy to get a pic from 2026
Immanuel Kant’s home. Big respect.
Disgusting imho..
It was beautiful before.
HUGE downgrade
The Russian World really is something!
Viborg might be even worse. Russia took over developed parts of Europe and turned them into Mordor, now they want to do it again
Russki Mir – Coming to a town near you.
Absolutely castrated
awful.
Looks like jersey lol
looks like shit now
A city dies..
Kaliningrad is my hometown – ask me anything.
2019 was 6 year’s ago not now.
I never thought trees could make a place look so dead
triste
Lots of european cities, especially in germany made the same development. Berlin being the best example but I guess that is what the germans get for starting 2 world wars. If you ever visit germany, go to Dresden. That is how Berlin could’ve looked like on a bigger scale.
Wrong title: now vs then
It was much more beautiful in 41!
Ouch….. as bad as it gets.
After the rape of the city in 1945 I wonder that there is anything left of it
Yikes. Reading through the comments, it seems an alarming number of people either lack a basic understanding of world history, or are doing some epic trolling.
I hope the latter.
it got ugly
Don’t start a world war if you don’t want this happen to your cities. Soviets erased German texture on purpose.
Moral of the story: Don’t be Hitler. It’s his fault. It was actually a major German military hub for the eastern front.
what a downgrade…
Hmm, wonder what happened in 1941… reddit is doing reddit
Why?
Tragedy
Now that’s a dystopian future! What a shame, it was once so beautiful 🙁
I always thought the biggest travesty of post WWII was letting USSR keep **Kaliningrad**. Europe spent the war learning that incoherent borders and imperial outposts cause endless conflict, then immediately created a heavily militarised Russian exclave with zero local consent between Poland and Lithuania. Entire population expelled, no vote, no demilitarisation, just raw power ratified at **Potsdam Conference**.
Absolute genius. Who could have predicted this would ever cause problems.
[Konisberg being mentioned is always a good excuse for this amazing video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W18FDEA1jRQ)
Aesthetics aside, this is a city that was so important, politically, trade wise, scientifically and culturally, home to extremely important philosophers, mathematicians and physicists, one of the great cities of Europe…
…and then it was bombed during WW2, ethnically cleansed by the USSR, and became a completely irrelevant backwater that most people forget the existence of.
War has a funny way of clearing away buildings.
The Russians know how to live
https://preview.redd.it/ckl07xsqc0bg1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a9d63bc2556ffd6b15698761586877775e30c21
Fuck Poutin, but if you take a picture in the fog of court it’s ugly.
My grandmothers birthplace.
Ashes are somewhere in the Vistula.
Would be nice to go and visit one day, but ah…geopolitics.
Gee, what happened between 1941 and now?
There are many similar pictures of American cities. Atlantic City comes to mind
Oooohhh nice! the fatherland of graph theory
The genocide nobody is talking about.
https://preview.redd.it/7qyhbr6hf0bg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=5f0b0115e9994633dbf79801ed8e54e67e6e40dd
And here it is in 1945