Artist Viktor Hurr gets it right. 80 years ago today, the entire Volga German population was deported to Siberia.
That's right. Close to 400,000 people sent to Siberia and slave labour thanks to the Communists of the USSR.
Indeed, anyone of German descent throughout Russia was sent to Siberia.
That dear friends is how my wife came to be born in Siberia. Her parents and family sent away, just like that.
My great-grandmother was among the deported. Two of my great uncles will perish in the GULAG as well.
We remember.
