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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 267695, member: 2844&quot;]Ethnic Germans were generally treated worse than other minorities in Russia, so in the 19th century many emigrated to the US and other countries.</p><p>Persecution during the Soviet era, particularly the 40s, was horrendous. Most were deported to camps in outlying parts of Russia, where many died of starvation, etc.</p><p>In the 50s some families were allowed to migrate to Germany, and after Perestroyka many followed.</p><p>But there are still Germans in Russia, mainly in Central Asia where they had to stay even after the deportation period. The Russian republic of Altai, Central Asia, constituted several German national districts. Those who did not wish to migrate to Germany were allowed to live together in the districts in Altai.</p><p>More recently families began going back to western Russia and in the 90s, after an agreement between Russia and Germany, the historic German-Russian Volga Republic was restored.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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