21 May 1991, Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russia, USSR. A Russian German multigenerational family waits with their belongings inside the airport for days for their flight to Germany.
Russian German family waiting to immigrate from the Soviet Union to Germany in 1991. A multigenerational family waits with their belongings in Sheremetyevo International Airport outside of Moscow for days for their flight to Germany. Ethnic Germans were recruited to migrate to Russia in the18th century, Volga Germans as many became known lived on the Volga River in southeastern European Russia. In 1924, After the Russian Revolution, the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was created by Soviet government. In 1941 after the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, the Soviet government under Joseph Stalin considered the Volga Germans as possible collaborators and deported them to Siberia and Kazakhstan with most put into forced labor camps. The total of Russian Germans sent into internal exile is estimated to have been 950,000 with more than 220,000 perishing in the Gulag forced-labor camps. The German Autonomous Republic was dissolved in September of 1941. In the1980s and early 90s many of the remaining ethnic Germans left the Soviet Union to return to Germany.
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Location: Sheremetyevo International Airport, Khimki, Moscow Oblast, Russia, USSR
Photo credit: © Chuck Nacke / Alamy / Afripics
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