How does this region differ from the rest of Russia from a well-being score? Are people happier?

I hope they suffer there

>people are happy in Lithuania
>people are happy in Poland

Imagine being this dumb

Someone please answer his question, I am curious about this too.

Same shithole filled with the same bydlo as the rest of the country.
Everything that was beautiful over there from the Germans was destroyed to build ugly gray commieblocks upon it

People from Kaliningrad like pretending that they're more European than other Russians but in fact it's bullshit and they're generic Russians like said. Maybe the small difference is that almost all of them work for the army or have someone in the family who is a soldier, therefore they're slightly wealthier than average Russians in "mainland" Russia

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>therefore they're slightly wealthier than average Russians in "mainland" Russia
It's actually the opposite, everything is much more expensive than in mainland Russia and even Poland and Lithuania, that's why they all come here for shopping.

tema.ru/eng/travel/kaliningrad/

Here you go OP

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>It's actually the opposite, everything is much more expensive than in mainland Russia and even Poland and Lithuania, that's why they all come here for shopping.

I meant they have more money to spend

That doesn't mean they are more wealthy.

They can visit Poland visa free to smuggle in cigarettes and bring filthy capitalist food back home.

They have a cigarette factory that produces cigarettes meant for smuggling.

reportingproject.net/underground/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3

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It's a reverse Switzerland, meaning it's way shittier than their neighbours.

Ethnic Russians from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Kaliningrad Oblast are the shittiest type of Russians desu.

this

>They can visit Poland visa free to smuggle in cigarettes and bring filthy capitalist food back home.

it used to be like that but when our current right wing govt took power they removed this visa-free regime for Kaliningradians, now they need visas as well

>PiS
>righ wing

Right wing in continental Europe means national SOCIALISM.

They're socially conservative so very much right wing. Stop using economics to define the political spectrum, that is outdated.

It is closer to top by well-being, but not a really outstanding region, like Moscow or Petersburg.

Why did ruskies kept that to themselves intstead of giving it to Poland or Lithuania like they did with the rest of East Prussia?

Kill yourself yank

Remember during history class, that the local lithuanians didnt want to join the newly reformed Lithuania, because they thought its a lost cause

Because they needed a place for a military base.

Because most of its inhabitants were Russians.
That's misinformation. Kaliningrad Oblast was governed as a part of the Russian SSR, not the Lithuanian SSR. After all the Soviet republics split off from the USSR, they received the land that their republic used to cover as a part of the USSR. Lithuania didn't receive the land because it was never a part of the Lithuanian republic. Not before Soviet times and also not during Soviet times.

Fun fact: Kaliningrad-Lithuania border once was Russian border, but from the different side.

>Because most of its inhabitants were Russians.

In 1945 there weren't any Russians, it could have been given to Poland or Lithuanian SSR.

Lithuania was the part of the USSR, what's the difference?
>Because most of its inhabitants were Russians.
Are you retarded?

Oh, right. I misread his post and thought that he was asking why it remained a part of Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

>>Because most of its inhabitants were Russians.
>Are you retarded?
that was to obviously

>Lithuania was the part of the USSR, what's the difference?
Soviet Republics were autonomous to a certain degree. They had own branches of the communist party, own ministers and they enjoyed language rights that ensured that people could learn the language of their ethnicity in schools, not just russian.
Kaliningrad was not a part of the Lithuanian SSR. It was filled with people who immigrated from Russia after all the German people were expelled, and it was governed as a part of the Russian SSR, together with "Russia proper".
Yes, I thought you were talking about 1991. In 1991 most of the inhabitans of Kalinigrad were Russians though, who would not have wanted to suddenly become a part of Lithuania or Poland.

>Soviet Republics were autonomous to a certain degree. They had own branches of the communist party, own ministers and they enjoyed language rights that ensured that people could learn the language of their ethnicity in schools, not just russian.
Yeah tell me about it.
>they enjoyed language rights
Pffff sure, """the rights""".

Nonetheless, The Red Army was one united entity, if they needed a base, it would still be the soviet base, no matter if'ts part of LSSR or RSFSR.

>Yeah tell me about it.

Kyrgyzstan was a primitive land without any culture so no wonder it was russified pretty fast as Russian culture was perceived as "higher", more advanced one.

But in the Baltic countries native Balts never embraced the Russian culture and still kept speaking their own languages, had classes exclusively in their native languages and Russian was taught as a foreign language only. So if Kaliningrad had been given to Lithuania, it would have been populated by Lithuanians who'd speak Lithuanian and they'd have a completely different mentality. Even if there were some Russian settlers, they wouldn't be a majority.

rude

If Koenigsberg had been given to us, now it would be a nice city with most of its old town rebuilt, like Gdańsk.

But since it's in Russian hands, it's just a commieblock shithole

yeah, it was rude, but true

Afaik they wanted to sell it back to us but it was so shitty that we declined. That should tell you everything you need to know

>outstanding

There are only outstandingly bad regions in Russia. I can't say there's at least one place in this country with decent quality of living, the only kinds of cities we have here are semi-shitholes, shitholes and complete shitholes.

> semi-shitholes, shitholes and complete shitholes.
We need examples for every of these