During the advance of the Red Army in the course of World War II, many Black Sea Germans, who had fallen under National Socialist dominion, were relocated by the Nazi SS to Warthegau.

They received German citizenship ("administrative resettlers"), but after the end of the war they were forcibly repatriated to Russia.

[5] When the Ruso-German relationship deteriorated after 2014, declining further since the 2015 start of the refugee crisis in Germany, many Russia Germans felt unfairly treated and unwelcome.

In the Russian media often consumed by Russia Germans, a mood was set against Chancellor Merkel and neo-fascism was presented as Germany's main characteristic.

Some withdrew into the well-known Soviet past and familiar simple explanatory patterns offered by Russian television.