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To: mosesdapoet

Not exactly. Kyrgizstan is closer to Afghanistan and Iran than it is to Volga.


5 posted on 11/10/2011 8:14:32 AM PST by cunning_fish
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To: cunning_fish

During her reign Catherine the II, known as The Great, (German) Empress of all Russia (after she had Pete’s kid Pete the duce wacked) encouraged Germans to settle in the Volga region because of their productivity as farmers.They were known as the Volga Deutch. With the onset of WWII Stalin resettled most of them beyond the Caucsus and that included Kyrgisstan as well as Siberia.


6 posted on 11/10/2011 10:23:13 AM PST by mosesdapoet (To punish a province let it be ruled by a professor Fredrick The Great paraphrased)
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