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In the last show, we already started talking about Prussia with the well-known archeologist Valdemar Šimėnas, a researcher of Prussian history. Now we will continue the conversation. Next to the book "The Forgotten Prussians" written by Valdemar with Vladimir Kulakov, we also placed another history of Prussia - this is Michel Kerautret's "History of Prussia" (by a French author), which describes the history of mainly German Prussia (the introductory part also contains a little about the old Prussians). This is a very different story of Prussia than in the first book. This begs the question. We see that Prussia is a multi-meaning word, and this is due to the fact that the Prussian heritage was also exploited in later times. It was appropriated by the Germans who conquered Prussia - they named their state by this name. In the last show, we already talked about the fact that even the Russians tried to prove that these are old Russian lands. We know that Poland also controls a large part of Prussia. We also talked about the fact that Lithuanians have certain sentiments towards Prussia and study it quite a bit, although perhaps too little. Prussia is no more, but it lives on in history and historical memory. At least several nations share it, and this is a problem in understanding the Prussian phenomenon. What are the interests of the various nations in the history of Prussia?