Posted on 05/14/2018 6:33:10 PM PDT by marshmallow
In former times people went westward for religious freedom, today people flock to the East to escape persecution.
After leaving the West due to the force feeding of immorality, the Martens family have happily settled into Russian society.
The following clip taken from Russian news with a transcript below gives an update on how their new life in Russia is going.
Transcript:
Anchor:
Well continue the German topic telling you about a German family that made a decision to settle in Russia. The hero of our today's program is Eugeny Martens, who is ethnically German but feels in Russia more at home than in Germany. He has no intentions of leaving Stavropol ever again.
Maria Saushkina went to see the amazing German.
Correspondent:
I'm at the picturesque Arkhyz Resort. The Caucasus has always been famous for its hospitality. Today, the Martens family was welcomed on these fertile lands most cordially. Both locals and the family are happy, for today its essential for them to be closer to nature.
The family of Russian Germans, as they refer to themselves, are planning to spend the weekend in the country. The parents and their ten children. The funicular soars up. The mountain landscapes are breathtaking. Dimon, the oldest, is fluent enough in Russian to share his impressions.
Dimon:
"Its very high here, theres a lot of snow, it's very beautiful, I really like it!"
Correspondent:
While children are playing snowballs at the top, parents are planning the family's future.
Eugeny Martens:
"We want to buy land to plant a vegetable garden by spring, we'll grow vegetables, fruit, mainly potatoes, onion, garlic, and so on. We are looking forward to obtaining our citizenship papers."
Correspondent:
This is the log cabin the........
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Russia is a Christian country, like America used to be.
Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.
Russia used to have a lot of Volga Germans.
Seventy-five years ago, they’d be bitter enemies locked in a terrible war. Today, Russia gained a productive family that wants to assimilate into the host culture. That’s how immigration is a win-win.
We’re living in scary times.
That site is locking my computer up. Why were they forced to leave?
IIRC, homeschooling their children.
That’s not true. I think we discussed this before, didn’t we?
Stalin persecuted the Volga Germans and when the war with Germany began in 1941, he deported most of them to Siberia, Kazakhstan, and other eastern regions. Others moved to Germany after the Nazis overran their neighborhoods, but many of these were forcibly returned by the Allies to the Soviet Union, where they were herded into the Gulag. Some of the Volga Germans in Germany eluded the roundup and became citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany.
I know that Russia took in Anabaptists including Mennonites during the persecutions in Europe.
The effing retarded sodomitic sex terrorists out west are marching all over our faces
Russia could prove to be the last sanctuary.
I think I’d go to Hungry or Poland. They are not putting up with Muslim immigrants.
Russia has far too many muslims, Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia.
“In former times people went westward for religious freedom, today people flock to the East to escape persecution.”
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