While discussing all kinds of ethnic heritages present in the Saratov region of Russia in Maksim and Anna's cozy apartment, Anna revealed that she has German heritage. Her great grandfather came from Germany--so definitely much later than the people making up the colonies--and lived in the region here. Her grandparents moved to live and work in Usbekistan in the 1920s because there was very little food available and there were almost famine-like conditions. Anna was born in Uzbekistan and lived 12 years there. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1990 and Uzbekistan's independence Anna's parents left Uzbekistan on very short notice because Russians were quite unwelcome there at the time.
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