
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?
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?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?