For those that say it is only Putin’s war: Russians living in Germany marching through German cities in support of Putin’s war of aggression.
For those that say it is only Putin’s war: Russians living in Germany marching through German cities in support of Putin’s war of aggression.
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Note sure how many people are informed about Russians in Germany. During the times of Catherine the Great and other Czars, Germans (mostly) farmers, were invited to live in Russia (and paid to move). They settled there, and while keeping some German traditions, become mostly Russian. Obviously, during the reign of Lenin and Stalin, they were not trusted and often exiled to far reaches of the USSR. Not sure what happened to them in WWII, but probably nothing good.
Post 1991, they were allowed to immigrate to Germany, and the German government paid for much of their move and subsequent housing in Germany. They still form distinct communities in Germany. From my experience with one of them, they are broadly pro-Russian and eat up Russian TV and propaganda.
Here is the Wiki about them, much more complicated than what I explained. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germans_in_Russia,_Ukraine_and_the_Soviet_Union#Decline_of_the_Russian_Germans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germans_in_Russia,_Ukraine_and_the_Soviet_Union#Decline_of_the_Russian_Germans)
Super fucking pathetic that any of them support Putin. Slave mentality
Well as always and everywhere there are these and those.
Yes, there are Spätaussiedler that are supporters of Putin and the Russian government. And yes of these Spätaussiedler there are the ones that support the war in Ukraine.
But there are also the ones that do not support war anytime, anywhere. Simply decent people that have a migration background.
And although I have no numbers one either these or those, I deeply believe that war supporters are the minority and decent people are the majority.