and you know, i remember once, i came to svitlogorsk. it was the beginning of the 2000s, some first attempts had already begun. to civilize the kaliningrad region, because in soviet times there were none of these there were no attempts, it was just a completely neglected area, even compared to the neighboring baltic states, which were also then soviet. question, but for the audience to understand, we understand that keninsberg, which was the real name before that, is kaliningrad, in fact, it was at one time quite... quite a prosperous city, and quite a prosperous region, why then soviet the union was so indifferent to this region, compared, for example, to others, to lithuania, well, compared to those regions that it controlled, that's how you can answer this question, they did not believe in the permanence of borders, well, until 1975, approximately before the signing of the helsinki act. the soviet leadership, of course, they didn't say it out loud, but they weren't sure that it was all theirs forever, and that's why the kaliningrad re