Germans of the former USSR in perpetual Stalinist exile

82 years of the tragedy of the deportation of the German minority in the USSR. Peaceful demonstration. Defense of the rights of Germans of the former USSR. August 28, 2023 Luxembourg Square, Brussels, opposite the European Parliament building (Europäisches Parliament — Station Europe) Who are the Germans of the former USSR? They came from different regions of Europe: Hessen, Baden, Württemberg, Palatinate, West and East Prussia (Dutch Mennonites and French Huguenots), as well as from Switzerland and France (from Alsace and Lorraine), who in the middle of the 18th century at the invitation of the Russian tsars moved to the Russian Empire. For two centuries, Germans in Tsarist Russia were engaged in agriculture, as well as in the production of agricultural machinery. The catastrophe of the Germans in the USSR. Immediately after the arrival of Soviet power (1917), the Germans were subjected to repression, both on class and nationality grounds. German schools were clos