Comments on: The Russian-Germans in Tajikistan http://tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2007/03/29/the-russian-germans-in-tajikistan/ neweurasia\'s latest on Tajikistan Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:03:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Sultonbek Aksakolov http://tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2007/03/29/the-russian-germans-in-tajikistan/#comment-14485 Sultonbek Aksakolov Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:16:23 +0000 http://tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2007/03/29/the-russian-germans-in-tajikistan/#comment-14485 This is an interesting article discussing the forced migration of Russian-Germans to Tajikistan southern region of Qurghonteppa. Although i have never met these people in person, i conducted research among the Pamiri households in Qumsangir (district in Qurghonteppa) recently, and they were remembering their German neigbourhood as very hardworking, skillfull and friendly neigbourhood. Initially everyone new migrant household had suffered from harsh living condition in this area, but what my intervieews,relatives and aquiantances told me gradually their living conditions improved well. Some of the interviews refer to the period between 19060 znd 1980 as the Golden years of their life, living in a real cosmopolitian milieu with many nationalities aroud. However, the end of the Soviet ruling, and the the Civil War in Tajikistan resulted in the loss of human life, destruction of infrastructure for these migrants people. For few household survived these tragedy and few were able to recover, the rest today live in poverty, destruction, migration is way of living for them now., their are scattered througout Tajikistan and Russia. And that peacefull and prosperous life or Golden years belong to history now. This is an interesting article discussing the forced migration of Russian-Germans to Tajikistan southern region of Qurghonteppa. Although i have never met these people in person, i conducted research among the Pamiri households in Qumsangir (district in Qurghonteppa) recently, and they were remembering their German neigbourhood as very hardworking, skillfull and friendly neigbourhood. Initially everyone new migrant household had suffered from harsh living condition in this area, but what my intervieews,relatives and aquiantances told me gradually their living conditions improved well. Some of the interviews refer to the period between 19060 znd 1980 as the Golden years of their life, living in a real cosmopolitian milieu with many nationalities aroud.
However, the end of the Soviet ruling, and the the Civil War in Tajikistan resulted in the loss of human life, destruction of infrastructure for these migrants people. For few household survived these tragedy and few were able to recover, the rest today live in poverty, destruction, migration is way of living for them now., their are scattered througout Tajikistan and Russia.
And that peacefull and prosperous life or Golden years belong to history now.

]]> By: Robert Middleton http://tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2007/03/29/the-russian-germans-in-tajikistan/#comment-14479 Robert Middleton Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:01:49 +0000 http://tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2007/03/29/the-russian-germans-in-tajikistan/#comment-14479 Congratulations on a well-researched and interesting article. What is your special interest in Tajikistan? I travelled often to Tajikistan from 1993-2003 and long before there was a German Embassy in Dushanbe there was already (1993) a German consulate whose principal if not sole task was to process requests from ethnic Germans for resettlement in Germany. In 1994 at Almaty airport I had a long conversation in German with an ethnic Kazakh shepherd who had lived close to a German-speaking Kazakh village and had picked up the language from his neighbours. It is still possible to find (older) teachers of German in the Pamirs. Excellent German was taught at the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute up to the late 1970s - probably better than the English taught there. Best regards Robert Congratulations on a well-researched and interesting article. What is your special interest in Tajikistan?

I travelled often to Tajikistan from 1993-2003 and long before there was a German Embassy in Dushanbe there was already (1993) a German consulate whose principal if not sole task was to process requests from ethnic Germans for resettlement in Germany.

In 1994 at Almaty airport I had a long conversation in German with an ethnic Kazakh shepherd who had lived close to a German-speaking Kazakh village and had picked up the language from his neighbours.

It is still possible to find (older) teachers of German in the Pamirs. Excellent German was taught at the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute up to the late 1970s - probably better than the English taught there.

Best regards

Robert

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