Window on Eurasia: After Crimea, Russian Germans Press for Restoration of Their Republic - by Paul Goble
Window on Eurasia: After Crimea, Russian Germans Press for Restoration of Their Republic by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com) Sunday August 31 st , 2014 at 4:31 PM Window On Eurasia -- New Series 1 Share Paul Goble Staunton, August 31 – Seventy three years after their republic was disbanded by Stalin and 24 years after the two Germanies were reunited, some of Russia’s remaining Germans have been inspired by the creation of a Crimean Republic within the Russian Federation to increase their efforts to restore a German Republic within Russia. Given the radical decline in the number of Germans in the Middle Volga – there were more than 400,000 a century ago but only 1400 remains – some in the city of Engels, which once was the capital of the German autonomy, are skeptical that anything can be done ( http://nazaccent.ru/content/12956-prizrak-respubliki.html ). Dmitry Reshetov, the director of the