From the title I was confused, I thought you were talking about 1918. But with the lend lease act I thought we were supposed to get bases/land in exchange but we got nothing from the soviets. My smart relatives(Volga Germans)left in 1898 after the droughts started to happen every few years and the jews were charging 50-100% interest on loans. They’d pay them back with the next crop and then a year or two later another drought and crop failure, rinse, repeat. My family ended up in North Dakota a couple of them then left for Canada, others not related went to Argentina and Canada. They saw what was coming, they had been promised no conscription etc and all that started to change and they could no longer deal with the jews who were constantly trying to start revolutions and screwing them over. The ones that stayed behind, the family trees end in the 30’s and then again in the 40’s during WWII when they were supposed to be “moved” but sent to the gulags instead. There’s probably 500 of us from my great great great grandparents. We paid for a family history and we got letters, diaries. Etc from them living in Russia and the move etc. It’s a few big binders worth of history and family trees. When I first read it they hated the jew with a passion and I didn’t understand but now after knowing the jew I understand. My maternal great great grandfather came over in 1905 and was a veterinarian. He married a Rockefeller or Rothschild, I can’t recall which one and lived in NYC. He divorced her after 5 years, moved to the German community in ND, remarried and had 16 kids. From everything I’ve ever heard he never talked about the first marriage except once and said they were disgusting and horrible people who ruined lives, didn’t care about anything but money and had no morals or souls. So naturally my family always tried to claim we were jewish and were proud of it and would tell everyone. Finally after knowing the jew I’d argue with them and I made them take dna test and we’re all 0.00% jew luckily.