21 mai 1991, aéroport international Sheremetyevo, Moscou, Russie, URSS. Un adolescent russe allemand, avec sa famille, attend avec ses effets personnels à l'aéroport pendant des jours pour son vol vers l'Allemagne.
3409 x 5140 px | 28,9 x 43,5 cm | 11,4 x 17,1 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
21 mai 1991
Lieu:
Sheremetyevo International Airport, Khimki, Moscow Oblast, Russia, USSR
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Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.
A Russian German teenage boy, with his family, waits to immigrate from the Soviet Union to Germany in 1991. The boy and his multigenerational family wait 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.
