Posted: 2008-05-20 11:55am
Comrade Stas, I assume Little Sister is no longer little
By the way Stas, what military equipment surrounds your dad?
By the way Stas, what military equipment surrounds your dad?
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I assume Little Sister is no longer little
SOme sort of engineering equipment, looks like a BREM. I'm sure Vympel could make out the tank chassis, my wheel-fu is kinda weak, I can only determine them by towers.By the way Stas, what military equipment surrounds your dad?
Yes. Worked at the SK factory. Post-collapse, moved to Germany as part of the repatriation program offered by the FRG.Was he a Wolgadeutscher?
SK factory? Was he the last generation of your family to speak German, or did your parents learn it too?Stas Bush wrote:Yes. Worked at the SK factory. Post-collapse, moved to Germany as part of the repatriation program offered by the FRG.Was he a Wolgadeutscher?
She sure grew. To think I have three daughters who might one day leave the nest. "sighs and prepares to scrutinize every suitor who follows them home"Stas Bush wrote:
SOme sort of engineering equipment, looks like a BREM. I'm sure Vympel could make out the tank chassis, my wheel-fu is kinda weak, I can only determine them by towers.
My parents did not learn German, but I did.SK factory? Was he the last generation of your family to speak German, or did your parents learn it too?
She's even older right now and is learning at an Architecture University in Leningrad, 2nd course.She sure grew.
Um, from the 1960s onwards... not at all? Unless you were some kind of dissident against the Soviet regime, publishing anti-soviet books and travelling to dissident meetings, you'd generally get zero attention. Dissidents got cracked down on periodically. Depending on the period of course: in 1930-1950, the NKGB-NKVD-MGB organs were very prevalent: they controlled a lot of economic activity, controlled lots of production both civil and military... since 1950s onwards their role decreased. The KGB itself was not "ever-prevalent" unless you really worked on some top-notch closed factory.Pelranius wrote:BTW, how prevalent was the KGB actually in present day life
Russian; so did my father. You could change ethnicity record in your passport on demand in USSR, and that's what my father did. That later led to him being uneligible for German emigration unlike many relatives on his side.Pelranius wrote:If I may ask, what ethnicity were you considered as under the USSR's policy?