People and Politics | Russia's ethnic Germans - Why they stayed at home. 

I'm of Russ- German descent from Kulm, Bessarabia and my ancestor immigrated to North Dakota in 1878.

Great video. Half of my ancestors were Germans from Russia. I am glad to hear that some of our people are still living there! :)

Is so beautifull in Siberia, there is space, forest, clean air, natural silence, good people, and they work slowly-no stress. In western europe there is no space, there is no forest, the air is poluted, all-all the time the sound of explosion´s motors, agresiv and stupid and squizofrenik "people", and the work is a hell: so inhumand, so streesing, one never feel peace, never.

You should read up on the subject. They were an agrarian society and were offered free land along the Volga river for farming. They weren't rejecting anything, they wanted to continue the life style they were familiar with. Many of them died of starvation trying to get settled there.

In the US, German is the number one ancestry from mass immigration in the 1800's. German is #1, Irish #2, and British #3. Almost as many German Americans living in America as there are in the country of Germany. Our ancestors assimilated and we don't speak the German language anymore, but we still have the genetics.

There is an alexandrovka in Ukraine as well, about an hour outside of Odessa. This video is very interesting, it could have been my family had we not left before exile. Any of these people could probably be distant relatives...wish them the best.

Proud of my Volga German ancestry 😊 great grand parents came to ND

Dieser Bericht war ziemlich interessant! Ich habe noch nie die Meinungen der Russen der ethnischen deutschen Erbe gehört.

Кто говорит, что Александровка находится не в России, посёлки с такими названиями есть по всему бывшему СССР и тут показана одна из тех, что находится в именно в России

@kensai7gr your saying poor, well maybe, for our standards, but they seemed happy. You see having a big house and lots TVs , laptops and money does not necessarily make you happy. these follks may live in siberia but they're probably happier than many of us here in the west.

Everyday people are honest, hardworking, family oriented and just want to be left alone. Its the governments that are evil, most governments and politics separate people that otherwise would be cordial and friendly to each other.

"German community with Russian problems" hahahaha

I am a descendant of Volga Germans in Argentina. Here they founded many colonies and were very happy. My family was from Schilling Colony, Saratov.

What if not everyone is only about money? What if people genuinely prefer that land, the beauty of nature? What if people prefer their land, and not that one of their great great great grandfathers?

Thank you so much.....

I am a Volga Deustch descendant in the U.S. I don't blame them for not leaving because they think Germany is their only option. In 1993, Germans were not enthusiastic about the German Russians coming to Germany. Even today Germany doesn't mention us and prefers we erase our culture and history. Germany would rather build mosques. If you are ethnic German and still live in Russia or Khazakstan, consider coming to North America (Canada or US) or South America (Argentina). Here we were able to fully integrate without having our culture erased.

The translation is a bit wrong sometimes.

My family on my mother's side and my father's side are Volga German-Russia. My family came to the USA in the early 1900.

4:07 the reason some have not made it

My girlfriend is Russ-German. From Siberia, many Germans there, but most left to Germany or other areas.

I'm curious about the poster above the kitchen table. The lady in the nude. I don't understand why that would adorn a wall in a family home. I thought they were religious, and family orientated.

Все забывают что была такая страна как Пруссия и её населяли славяне и балты а потом и германцы)))

Nd has some Germans from Russia and California has some and I believe sw of Winnipeg Canada has some. I seen a few maps of where Germans from Russia immigrated. I can't remember where all but in North Dakota I think most a pre war immigrants. I think Germans in Russia had it good until ww2. If they have decent amount of freedom in Russia out in Siberia I understand why they wouldn't want to head to Germany to sit in a shit apartment on welfare.

The owner/boss of the biggest russian gas company is a ethnic German/Russiagerman btw...

Common proclamation from a 98% German-American with a great-great-great-great-great-grandfather from county Cork: "I',m Irish-American!"

lyudi - lyudi

Apparently my strongest ancestral ties are from here.

alexandrovka is name of number of rural settlements in Russia

True.

4:28 , the wife sleeps on the floor !??! unbelievable

I come from volga germans

Previous generations of Germans weren't very good at reading maps

Germany wouldn't take them back anyway. Wrong color.

i'd get the fuck out of there if i were them

This OUR FREE MOTHERLAND

He doesn't seem very happy.

mit sidercar

Our tax dollars to Ukraine? As if we don't have our own problems to solve!

Aleksandrovka is in Azerbaijan, not Russia.

VAT DUH FU

German goverment abonded volgar germans

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How can there be an ethnic to a political border? Maps of "countries" are showing the political borders, maps of ethnic groups, do not exist... "Home is where you hang your Hat"

Nah bru, their ancastors must be arrived in 1940s 😬

They left to escape war.

They should all together move to Germany, work very hard for about 15 to 20 years, save their money and then perhaps... buy a piece of land so they can raise chickens and ducks and pigs and live just like they did back home in Russia. (Simple as that)

The soviets russianized the remaining Russiagermans which is the reason why they dont know German anymore, dont live German culture and Tradition anymore and why theyre now sad people and live the normal bad russian Farmer life.

a primitive germany in russia.