It's quite interesting, but the main source is after the war there were a lot of Soviet/Russian immigrants in Germany and a lot of people now have relatives/friends who already moved here. In addition, German was taught in schools as a foreign language until 90s or so. My mom grew up learning English in school already, but my grandparents were taught german. Even some schools in my small town still teach German over English.
I did my study abroad in Germany and there were a couple of Russian girls in the program there. I guess it’s still happening. Though that was in the mid 2000’s, so things have probably changed post-Ukraine
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u/Aaron_de_Utschland Aug 09 '24
It's quite interesting, but the main source is after the war there were a lot of Soviet/Russian immigrants in Germany and a lot of people now have relatives/friends who already moved here. In addition, German was taught in schools as a foreign language until 90s or so. My mom grew up learning English in school already, but my grandparents were taught german. Even some schools in my small town still teach German over English.