volga germans

  1. Catherine II (accidental or not) Germanisation of Russia

    German migration to Russia: I quote, the following passage: “The Germans migrated to Russia in several waves, all spurred by promises of jobs and land from the Tsars. The first period of migration from Germany to Russia occurred between 1533-1584 under Ivan the Terrible, who hired a wide...
  2. GauchoBadger

    WI: Kazakh German autonomous oblast?

    Based on this post by David T, and the thought of Russian Germans suddenly popping into my mind. Basically, what if Soviet authorities had, contrary to local Khazak interests, managed to create a German autonomous republic in northern Kazakhstan in the 1970's, as a compensatory measure for...
  3. Greater Volga-German population

    Is there any way of increasing the Volga German population with a post 1945 POD. Keep the story inside the soviet union/former soviet union. What i am intrested is the minds of the people. What motivates them, what to they dream of, what makes them scared, what grievances they have, what they...
  4. WI: The Soviet Operation Osoviakhim (their Operation Paperclip) included all German POWs?

    What if instead of returning most of the surviving German prisoners of war at the end of WW2, the Soviets forcibly recruited not just those with rocketry knowledge in Operation Osoviakhim, but almost all of the German POWs, aviation knowledge or not, to gain 2 million extra industrial workers...
  5. GohanLSSJ2

    WI/PC: Russia settles Alaska using German immigrants

    I'm not referring to Germany being the one to colonize Alaska. Rather, I mean that Russia, taking advantage of the influx of German immigrants, sends at least some of them over to Alaska. What if Catherine the Great decided that she had further use for the Germans settling in her Empire? What...
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