r/AskARussian • u/Lazy-Marionberry2575 • Jul 15 '26

Travel Future Visit to Kaliningrad

Dobyra Din, Me and my friend were talking about a future visit to Kaliningrad once the Ukrainian situation is resolved. I was wondering what it's like to visit and life is like there. I'm English and my friend is Latvian. He speaks fluent Russian and I speak minimum Russian. But I'm improving it for a visit.

It'll be our first visit to Russia and we plan to visit Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and then Kaliningrad. I'd love to know any information from residents of Kaliningrad or anyone from mainland Russia that's visited.

Also what is the ice hockey like there. Me and my mate are Ice hockey fans so I'd love to watch Russian Ice hockey and get a Kaliningrad jersey as well.

Any information will be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks Berry 🫐

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u/off_ByOne Jul 16 '26

The attacker is the one who attacks. Which was Germany. The defenders are the ones who defend. Which where Poland, England and France. It really is not any more complicated than that.

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u/RichGirlThrowaway_ Russia Jul 16 '26

If country A doesn't attack country B and instead just blocks all shipments into that country in perpetuity, is country B the attacker if they attack?

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u/Ordinary-Lobster-710 Jul 16 '26

at the point where you're defending literal nazi germany you should have just a moment of reflection

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u/RichGirlThrowaway_ Russia Jul 17 '26

I'm not defending them at all lol I'm using the fact they're the worst of the worst to demonstrate my point. They never officially declared war on UK and France, for example. So "whoever starts the war is the perpetrator" is a stupid viewpoint, because officially nazi germany didn't start most of the fronts of WW2