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Every place RealLifeLore mentions in "Why Does Russia Own This Old Piece of Germany?", mapped
// THE CRUX Kaliningrad serves as a strategically vital, heavily armed Russian exclave within NATO territory that anchors Russia's Baltic naval power and geopolitical leverage against Eastern Europe.
46 places, in order of mention
| 00:02 | Russia | biggest country in the world, Russia is |
| 00:06 | Baltic Sea | stretching from the Baltic Sea in the west |
| 00:08 | Pacific Ocean | to the Pacific Ocean in the east |
| 00:13 | South America | nearly the same size as South America |
| 00:18 | Norway | far apart as Norway and North Korea |
| 00:20 | North Korea | and North Korea and spans across 11 |
| 00:30 | Europe | further to the west in Europe that's |
| 00:38 | Kaliningrad Oblast | This is the Kaliningrad Oblast or province |
| 00:50 | Lithuania | independent states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Belarus |
| 00:51 | Latvia | states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Belarus |
| 00:52 | Belarus | Latvia, and Belarus. Nearly a million Russians |
| 00:58 | Poland | states of Poland and Lithuania to the south |
| 01:53 | Gulf of Finland | across the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland |
| 01:56 | Saint Petersburg | towards Saint Petersburg. This ultimately means that |
| 02:13 | Ukraine | when the Russians invaded Ukraine |
| 02:22 | Kaliningrad | The city of Kaliningrad that the overall oblast |
| 02:37 | Crimea | and annexation of Crimea from Ukraine |
| 02:38 | Donbas | and annexation of Crimea from Ukraine the year |
| 03:30 | Warsaw | European capitals like Warsaw, Berlin, Copenhagen |
| 03:31 | Berlin | Warsaw, Berlin, Copenhagen and Stockholm |
| 03:32 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen and Stockholm with nuclear armed missiles |
| 03:33 | Stockholm | and Stockholm with nuclear armed missiles |
| 03:44 | Suwalki Gap | the narrow 65 kilometer wide gap between it |
| 04:02 | Estonia | the three Baltic states, NATO, and the European |
| 05:48 | Königsberg | better known as Königsberg in East Prussia |
| 05:49 | East Prussia | as Königsberg in East Prussia |
| 05:57 | Prussia | capital city of Prussia for centuries until 1701 |
| 06:42 | Berlin | transferred westwards to Berlin, though Königsberg itself |
| 06:47 | Germany | easternmost major city of Germany for two and |
| 08:52 | Oder-Neisse Line | along the Oder and Neisse rivers |
| 09:08 | Gdańsk | corridor and the Free City of Danzig |
| 10:16 | East Germany | were forcefully deported into East Germany |
| 10:28 | Russian SFSR | an island of the Russian Soviet Republic within |
| 10:32 | Belarusian SSR | separated by the Belorussian, Lithuanian, and Latvian |
| 12:18 | Vilnius | Lithuania's first secretary of the time declined |
| 12:34 | Crimea | transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine |
| 13:54 | West Germany | East and West Germany were reunifying |
| 14:15 | Moscow | claimed the Soviets had allegedly offered Kaliningrad |
| 15:28 | London | Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister |
| 16:45 | Paris | The French president of the time, François Mitterrand |
| 20:19 | Hong Kong | into a Baltic version of Hong Kong |
| 22:32 | Baltiysk | within the oblast at Kaliningrad and Baltiysk |
| 23:23 | Sweden | admission of both Sweden and Finland into the |
| 23:24 | Finland | Sweden and Finland into the NATO alliance |
| 23:35 | Saint Petersburg | around Saint Petersburg, Russia's second biggest city |
| 25:24 | Pregolya River | on both sides of the Pregel River |