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I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekanjana show and I want to welcome back Jay Otto.

How are you doing? How you done, Otto? Good. Cool. So let's get into some history here.

When you reached out to me, I guess you decided upon a little history of Germans in the Soviet Union prior to World War II and during World War II.

And, yeah, I don't think, I think last time we touched more on the polls and just really touched upon this subject.

So where do you want to start?

Well, we can start anywhere.

So the German colonists started arriving in the Russian Empire in the late 18th century,

the first German colonist proper outside of the Baltic region

where they weren't really colonists, but conquerors was established in 1764 in the Volga.

And then after that, starting really about eight, after 1804, although there was earlier settlements in the Black Sea region, particularly Ukraine and Crimea, and then later the Transcaucasas in 1818 settlements in Georgia.

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