Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
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Areas Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was the site arrivals from Germany since the eighteenth century, a result of isolation from mainstream culture, heavily influenced by German and Russian, living in areas of Volga Germans have produced their own culture and were on the road to education is a separate nationality - Volga Germans. After the revolution of the Germans went to Russia, while many others have joined the revolutionary movement. October 19, 1918 was created in these areas first, non-formal form of German autonomy. Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established January 6, 1924 year.
After Germany attacked the Soviet Union (June 22, 1941), Joseph Stalin, fearing acts of sabotage on the part of Volga Germans, issued a decree in exile "(28 August 1941), under which the Republic was abolished, and Germany Volga deported to Kazakhstan and Siberia.