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====Volga Germans==== | |||
*The '''Volga Germans''' are ethnic Germans who settled and historically lived along the Volga River in the region of southeastern European Russia around Saratov and to the south. | |||
*Recruited as immigrants to Russia in the 18th century, they were allowed to maintain their German culture, language, traditions and churches (Lutheran, Reformed, Catholics, Moravians and Mennonites). | |||
*In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many '''Volga Germans emigrated to Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, the Dakotas, California, Washington''' and other states across the western United States, as well as to '''Canada and South America (mainly Argentina and Brazil'''). | |||
*After the '''German invasion of the Soviet Union''' in 1941 during World War II, the Soviet government considered the Volga Germans potential collaborators, and deported many of them eastward, where thousands died. After the war, the Soviet Union expelled a moderate number of ethnic Germans to the West. In the late 1980s and 1990s, many of the remaining ethnic Germans moved from the Soviet Union to Germany.<ref>"Volga Germans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_Germans, accessed 12 July 2021.</ref> | |||