how have you heard that send that i lost the advice she read like she was to go to this board at this magic happened. this entire process was like, i need to show you letter of everything that everyone there today and did the, the hard stuff to is the one you did. but as being that the but is in back, i'm do you, what does that light? let us, i have well that i did mine since when the last time that i base this excited was when i just the what, what about was the date? it was like and then student permission, music is something that has always been like a home for me. so what do i have to do that if i do that one thing, i the creative innovation by russian artists and intellectuals in the 1920 abstract painters shock the otwell prices reopened the life of the cultural soul. a

100 years later, russian artists are flocking to them. and again, how is the influence today? i'm vain. next on d w, the news, i'm just trying to have a site to make the right decision to dw news instagram. to follow up the concerns that there's a beautiful phrase by russian writer, victor gloves, ski the russians are swarming the memorial church like flies around to shun the

lawyer noise, the seasonal go. if you have a loss in common russians and germans, the understand those here. ringback in high school, well, someone would say to me who ski whiskey, i never understood why they would say that to me is that the best for me to day berlin is considered the capital of the russian diaspora. numerous pretend critics live here in political exile, including many cultural figures. a new chapter in the long history of german russian migration, including the story of the russian germans. these german migrants once moved to the vote region at the invitation of catherine the great but we begin our search for traces of the exchange between the east and the west in berlin, in the 1920s plus breakouts on the course. and what's the say about said to be the

biggest russian city outside of russia on, on the street here, russian is spoken everywhere. all things, boston. um, well that's when the police a cold, a city buses i'm a russian swings, is that he's got thrown wouldn't, patients were sometimes a nice and russian. i'm a big one thing. and of course there were countless bars and restaurants frequented by russian. yes, irving, russian food that he has to go to. but why would there's so many russians leaving the homeland and seeking the action in the land? in 1917, russia was brought by political turbulence. dissolve, was deposed, bringing in to 300 years of romano through and the october revolution. communist bolsheviks led by lynn and storm. the winter palace demanding a dictatorship of the proletariat. it was the beginning of the struggle for a new social order. the scott, i'm

a relatives on good luck followed was a relatively long civil war leading up to the finding of the soviet union and the political opponents of the emerging system fled i the supporters of the sar, but not one like this was there were also intellectuals who come politic homeless that definitely take nice law. com lane and didn't want to any decision think is challenging his dream of the socialist side of your union. in 1922, he expelled the intellectual elite from the country and more than 200 leading rushes, doctors and philosophers were forced to leave the homeland an exodus of an entire generation of intellectuals on the so called philosophy ships. among them were nikolai but joy of send me on frank. and so gabriel gall costs. if they were to return, they will go and when they lift that would be shot. now a 100 years later, russia is suffering,

assuming the brain drain might have gilman was a celebration gallery or not, and museum director in moscow until he found out of state that was to, to and he has since been labels of foreign agents by russian authorities and like hundreds of his colleagues now works in the east move with whom you to increase. if you take a broader league, not only visual arts, but also literature and music, nearly all of the most important names of left russia, seal. you restrict keep regime leaves, no room for criticism. the licensed wanes of sling officers came when russia began . it's full on ukraine. the rifle lute miller. let's go out driven into exile at the age of old list fee. as a director, carrillo said he really calls an outspoken critic of rain. shame now faces prisons in russia and marina defeat of one of the most important voices in russian visa, now declared unwelcome after cooling for an end to the more the billing gallery

gilman on the count has become a sent us to international artist trying a new approaches with digital art in a city that's still open to experimentation. i mean, when you look up the slavic erlene has a reputation as a city that may not have a market where everything is cheated. ocean where artists are welcome category and where they have many opportunities to create something that had the subordinate come they know, give us more of the deal to chat. it's a stability or lane, but it's like an open stage that welcomes new artifacts. and a couple that had the custom one know show you that brings is true today as it did 100 years ago in volume. some of the stuff, the one you could see that berlin was something like a 1st stop for the refugees, or never said to me, you're right. $300000.00 russians here i did on on the cost. berlin is relatively

close to russia, decided by turning home was at least to be a radical possibility of moving kinds or to gain. entering the country was um, complicated, and inflation made life easier for the new arrivals. the inviting mr. pearlin was a cheap city for russians because the mark was so we can buy installation, what that means that's own. and they was safe to voice the political views. yeah. because usually take those brands there opinion, but not model mind. it was some said, the berlin was a kind of a mini russia worked on me. i was a broad range of elliptical movements here and, and a little more going slow 100 russian rushes and thinkers who was silenced a time, found the freedom and the cheap paper. they needed to continue their debates. almost a 150 russian newspapers were printed in the city. kind of of 50 russian publishing

houses brought out books by excel. drawings is such as andre, billy borders poster. not alexi remy solve. marine. it's the tie, the whole story. and of course, mike single piece of veritable who's who of russian literature of the times the day i find you probably the best known russian here the time was. why them here in the advocate of who actually lasted 15 years in portland, although he had a kind of a love hate relationship with the city and didn't write very kindly about it afterward, i've been receiving the russian, berlin of the 1920s was a single furnace room rented out by a course and smelly german, the nasty sweat of this mister, because some people is unforgettable by their portal kids time here was productive artist and racers have access to some rooms in the upper floors of this building and they are so we give you a try really interesting, good for them. he made a bit of money from that device, but probably most of his earnings came from working as

a n. s. teacher. yeah. and i taught tenants to wealthy young ladies and tenants. michael bought it was the roaring twenties. awesome culture was flourishing. germany was reinventing itself. in 1919 of the germany's grueling defeats in world war one, the motor key was ousted in the notes in the revolution. the kaiser advocated. the socialist colleague connects and the social democratic phillips signed them and proclaimed the republic as the design, my republic was a new system of democratic government. for the 1st time women were allowed to fudge . it was freedom of expression and freedom to the ops that he's got nothing else. after the 1st world war, berlin was a city where there was no more censorship. it was a plague writing for the news in literature film and painting by the gym and

capital became as vibrant, cosmopolitan metropolis gallery. oh, no, it's not valid in was a committed communist and admirer of russian artists. he helped raise the profile with his magazine additional, depending on the world was increased by these ideas, emerging from eastern europe. in 1922, the 1st russian art exhibition took place in building arch was serving as a vehicle of rough bush month between the young soviet union and the fine mile republic. it was a rezoning success, the german od. well, deeply impressed level everywhere in europe, the fast will, will monks and break. but in russia, the revolution had led to a real upswing, which no one was already aware of in the west. between 19141922. the simply wasn't much contact on the spot. the whole thoughts of creativity had a much the people when he got to see the exhibition in 1922. the people who were

amazed by how much had been going on while people here had just been scraping by. you might have recently me bob fight, that the exhibition featured completely new autistic currents such as supremacy ism and constructivism. revolutionary wild abstract, the futuristic experiments of office, letting me a tubman from huck, he challenged the very concept of space in moscow. the silly tendency pioneer the abstract games make sensory impressions visible with lines and circles perceptions rather than realities. in keys, cussing me a mile of each made one of the most radical statements about the rejection of the representational with his iconic black square in its purest foam. and l is its key from fortunate aim to do away completely with 2 dimensionality. a generation of artists from the flushing soviet union searching for

a new understanding of hot that would revolutionize the whole world. they were referred to as russian. although many of them were you probably need the one god does. you have to remember that the ever god always sold themselves as international nationality, wasn't important because they was driving for a movement that spanned the globe. the mix was important to reset the, the genetic or jobs all there was the russian cover me that blah will sole goal also for acquainted by lots of german writers and intellectual designs in the venue hosted lively evenings with the option and since powered ease of everyday life in germany, into one thing with russian functional ponds that is enough that is alaska, through the set of it. this is the most glorious thing you can experience in the

world. even the critics raved about, it's terrible. our sole goal is a dream that you want to sink into again and again, forget the ugly, green, and exhilarating paralyzing the sober presence. the i have to open my years a news to see what they are doing. no, we can't do that. i have to pops up and go home without attend the demo in germany, most cabarets were very political and this was more so to speak, russian folks, so it was exhausting. it was how people imagined rush it to be. and the way russians presented themselves in germany was key, as with german expectations of them must be, all of them destroyed, some poor people in swan, but fun pieces. yeah. best audiences loving this artistic melancholy. you have money, you have added a certain exoticism to german cold generation. quit to another one. i'm looking at 6 will different types of the game. but eventually the russian excels left and went

elsewhere to paris the us and some back to the. so if you union, by the time the nazis came to power in 1933, this free spaces out to split community had sketched it. rosky, burning was just a brief chat too in history. a 100 years ago. the material set up a new word with if we looked at these 2 periods and compare them chest 100 years ago. and then today, with in february, it was a time when you're upset stage for something you to develop a real scared even 2nd di using would find the russian revolution back then. and war and ukraine today was forced thousands of artists to start a cultural revolution. to evaluate the numerous german settlers made a new home in russia in the 18th century. the start of the turbulent and painful

history of the russian germans discussion. a russian german grandmother tells her granddaughter of her life between 2 cultures . this one mamma really came to for the purpose when the other children saw that their fathers had come home. they tell everyone at school when my dad has come mommy's. when i went home, i said to my mother, how is mom and dad hasn't come home. he's got a phone call and then my mother said, yes, my child, i wish you would come to him, but your father won't be coming home. so then it is coming to you in a session of off the vice. i remember when i was at high school, i was 10 or 11 years old, said someone would say to me, my time rosky rosky. and obviously if i never understood, why would they say that to me? i'm not rushing. i never speak russian, not even at home. where did they get that idea?

my name is wagner, the i couldn't be more german also and i still laugh now or both. i guess i is gone his way to think we're really only now starting to deal with the history. white of the story is only now being revisited. present. we're faced with the challenge of giving people with the russian german background, their own history to their own story. you know, you can increase that, you can the story. that's okay. but this one that i saw mama, the fog now was born in 1938, and russ solved a russian german settlement and the soviet union today context um and the let me know at our ancestors were german who emigrated from has in the 19th century. ok, the other side i want to, but when all the wagner was 3 years old, nazi germany attacked the ussr to russian. germans were all tarred with the same brush. viewed as sympathizers of hitler's germany and declared enemies of the soviet union. ready ready starting in august 1941,

some, 1000000 russian germans were forcibly deported. around a 3rd were sent to labor camps, where most of them died, including olga wagner as father. in the amount of time to conduct me, the children were dying like flies. they, they knew there was an epidemic of my niece, and i can remember how my mother was supposed to go to work with, but she resisted me. scan it. i'm not going to work. my child is dying. she said, have to cut off at the thread. she carried my brother, he was 3 years old. i can remember him gasping for, and i thought he had scarlet fever. the extent of savannah for she did, then he died. she didn't get in. i couldn't go to the funeral because i had nothing to wear. the other nissan teeth that he died in january. i know i moved,

there were 5 children and one grave uh, 5 little coffins. body of it was that cut off up is very, very bad as a coma. she has some few settings and she did a lot of income. so how do you smoke sling slaves? and thus they almost pop on in the sixties and seventies says, olga wagner, the situation improved. she found work as a dairy hand married and had 4 children. and then in the early 19 ninety's, the soviet union collapsed, another new beginning. she decided to return to her ancestors homeland, back to her roots. in 1993, she came to germany with her entire family. all the no, no. my mom, the my husband didn't want to, i'm the year when we were coming over. he kept saying it was my fault for this, but i was so happy to come here. come from me. it felt like coming home now. how is it called migration forestry, settlement, repression,

and odyssey many generations of russian germans have faced their fates almost forgotten, are re told and examined here in debt mode of germany and the museum of russian german cultural history. it all began in the 18th century with one woman, catherine, the great, the and then any call. so here you have a blank current credit assessors, peter the 1st and i've and the terrible you pass on the great was pursuing the policy of expansion. that's about the essential of what all the empires were doing at the time, and get my concrete territories at the expense of their neighbors or other empires . even though it will let them to be the catherine 2nd needed, loyal citizens, undoubtedly conquered areas in the auto to couldn't be assumed that the indigenous populations of those territories, and predominantly nomadic peoples living in the south would be loyal to this artist

on government of the day or the teeth of opposite ends will found homes as such, they afforded similar colonialist special privileges as it could be, and invited them to populate these new areas to russia's south eden holes lens. so the say those make up the southern russian regions around the vulgar river on the north congress's north coll, collin, and also southern ukraine, because she will, crane and 17. 63 catherine. the great signed a decree, the documents known to history as the invitation manifesto. the new settlers were granted generous tax concessions, couldn't be conscripted into the military service and were free to practice their religion. the people of the central german regions had long been used to war in poverty. some 100000. the germans accepted catherine's offer and migrated to the russian empire. the. the new arrivals were

afforded a great deal about tommy establishing their own schools, universities, and administrations around the mid 19th century. however, policies towards the german minority changed enough to place to go out and get in the 1869, sorry, alexander sent to signals and for the future deutsch help, both of which from different perspectives got the germans interest and attention because he was exerting influence on the level of the language of this clock, a russian was introduced into german schools, good established challenge enough for some people who gets it seem to be sent. became a question of belonging by them, of allegiance, with hudson and public. and this was the more serious decree he introduced the military service for german. it's like that many germans had to join the russian army in google search. i mean, russian nationalism intensified after the 1856 defeat and the crime in more rivalry between the german and russian empire as was on the rise to it was highly tempting

to make the settlers into escape goats for the country's unresolved problems. slowly, russian germans privileges where a wrote it for many it was caused enough to leave the country. by the end of the 19th century, the 1st russian germans were emigrating mainly to south and north america. the. the 2nd major wave of migration followed in the wake of the 1st world war in which the russian empire and germany were enemies. russian germans were designated the enemy within. it was the start of a painful story, plague by distrust, deportation and repression. in the communist soviet union, under stollins dictatorship by the 1930s at the latest, little was left at the multi ethnic state with its sweeping rights and autonomy from minorities. with the german van mocks invasion of the soviet union,

russian germans were viewed as a threat. they were no longer allowed to practice their traditions or religion. german schools were closed property confiscated with desperate to them. let's just trying to source done this one and i the form for that ultimately led to a lack of histories and identity in a way come or when the dot com is sunset surface to must, even. and there were massive waves of execution. he doesn't of societies of story tellers on proof of pastors professor as the teachers, the vaughn boy. they were often the victim of the 19 thirty's executions in the store and the size of it, which meant an end to the story telling dated with a decent tie chrome. it was during that period by whom not with around 200000 people killed or dying as a result of violence or starvation, leaving the block. would that a collective trauma to cold squabbles and please provide on vehicle could at each from the show inducing type home that facing the trauma of those year,

which would ultimately freeze something in place. one cushion depot, yada viet. let's please. and that was a state of self erase. request for young get this, i didn't source done that. so i guess not. it wasn't until 1991. that measure is taken by the communist regime against minorities or officially declared illegal. the russian germans received recognition as an official minority but warrant granted the rights and autonomy they have been promised or any kind of reparations . the soviet union collapsed at the end of 1991 and borders opened up by the early 2, thousands, some 3000000 russian germans from the former soviet states migrated to germany. they received german citizenship and were supported in the integration process. it was at this time that the wagner and her family moved to germany. yeah, their journey took them to freshen in west germany,

where they lived to this day. the oldest grand daughter remembers of alice said, all of this was just the village father, just saw in there where the fire department fences or i've had asked on. we're 6 containers. that's a 6 contain either v, as in zine, it was shared accommodation for russian german sinai level. but i think they were a few people from slovenia to, although my memories are quite confused by now, my name and homes and comes, comes up say i would love iowa about as i can, is my home and the high month as far as i see, it i'm german, which is i have ancestors and was born and because of done but i do feel german as it should be shown as i speak german i dream in german, i think in germans is think of dodge. i would also say i have the values, the virtues that i learned from my grandmother was that's how we were brought up home, punctuality, order, reliability usage. those are my virtues to on the problem in the swedish me,

i'll try but not all russian germans feel completely at home. here. it is easy to feel cold, truly isolated, especially when there is so little understanding of their history in winder society . this has led to a sort of alienation many long for recognition, for a sense of belonging to new york. i don't want to go anywhere. i'm german. i want to stay here. it's my home tonight, i'm up by now. many russian germans have successfully integrated and become part of germany's diverse history of migration and these are cetera. it's about collective memory. so these, this team of the history of the russian germans should be included in school textbooks to be out. and so that it's introduced into our social historical narrative because i'm sure it would be valuable for everyone on the inside for

people without a russian german background. it would foster understanding does want to send for people with a russian german background, which means that their story can finally be told type and then they connect with each other for spanning some 260 years. the history of the russian germans is complex, but it is well worth remembering the that's all for this edition. thanks for watching. see you next time the the wanted to make a trip to the business capital. structural cash. no problem. we know

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