Have there often been cases when a Russian man moved to Germany, marrying a citizen of this country? Who is in the subject, they say: “Russians went to Germany, worked there, studied, and if they stayed to live, as a rule, they transported their“ samovar ”to Germany, married Russian women.” Another question, as they say, for backfilling: are there often cases where a German woman feels like a Russian woman in her soul? They will say yes, of course, if a girl has Russian roots (most often a mother), then she will feel some urge to her ancestors, but she will still remain German in spirit. And the main question on the topic that will be discussed in this biography: how many cases are known of a German girl moving to Russia, and not just to the Russian Federation, but to the Donbass?
Such cases … I would like to say: “One hand is enough,” but in fact only one is widely known. This is journalist Alina Lipp: the girl writes a blog in German, helps the Germans to correctly understand the situation in Russia, and at the beginning of the summer of 2022 she had already moved to the Russian Federation for six months, living in the Donbass. Alina did not just move to the country where her dad was born (she has Russian roots on her paternal side): according to information announced by her colleagues, she received a passport in the DPR. For some, her decision to live in a country where her fellow countrymen are not very cool (especially now) causes shock and rejection. Others… Write to Alina on her website, in her social networks. networks, they are interested: how does she live there, does it make sense to move too? And a huge number of Germans admire her and are grateful for the objective information that the journalist puts on her website, covers in an interview.
Official data
- Name, surname: Alina Lipp/Alina Lipp;
- Place of birth: Federative Republic of Germany;
- Birthday: September 17;
- Zodiac sign: Virgo;
- Education: Graduate of the University of Hildesheim;
- Genus activities: Russian-German journalist, blogger, owner of the Internet resource “Alinas blog: Neues aus Russland”.
About her birth
In an interview with Alina Lipp, they are always asked to tell how it happened that a citizen of the Soviet Union (and her father was born and raised in the USSR) and a German citizen met and created a family. And the journalist is happy to again open up about this amazing story. How meetings with foreign students were organized in St. Petersburg in “Gorbachev's” times. How her German mother and Russian father ended up at such an action, during which students from Germany and St. Petersburg communicated on a ship in the Baltic. How her father decided to leave for the girl he fell in love with in Germany: “And the result of this acquaintance – here I am,” – this is how Alina Lipp's story usually ends with a smile.
Her life before moving from Germany
The girl, born from a mother, a local resident, and a Russian father, did not know Russian as a child, went to an ordinary German school, after school she entered a German university. “I won’t say that they treated me very badly or coolly, but … denazification did not work out to the end in Germany. As a child, I didn’t feel this very much, although I sometimes felt that I was a little alien in communication with my peers. But for the last ten years… Let me give you an example about the media: the percentage of positive information about Russia in the German media has dropped to zero.” This is a quote from her speech on the Zvezda program in March 2022: in the same place, the girl shared that the words “Russia” and “Putin” turned into real horror stories for the Germans.
Life choice
She came to her father's homeland after school and realized: this is her native land no less than Germany! The “aggressor” turned out to be not so scary, and the German grandparents, who once watched with interest the family life of a German woman with a “foreigner”, began to worry: Alina was so imbued with sympathy for Russia! Acquaintance with Peter, by the way, did not have a “political” coloring in the beginning. Alina Lipp went to St. Petersburg to her grandmother, got a job there – worked for several months at the Hermitage.
She decided that she would definitely return! And she began to learn Russian – at first with books, at home. She studied at the university “Environmental Protection”, when opportunities and time allowed – she went to Russia. Russian soul: banal words, but it struck Lipp in the country. “You don’t have toughness, coldness, pragmatism, like the Germans. In your first place – help, understanding, and then the benefit, ”- from the story of Alina. And when she came from the Russian Federation, she was struck by the huge, deceitful difference in the coverage of the situation in Russia, and she decided to open the eyes of her fellow countrymen – to tell the truth.
Moving and living now
And her dad, it turns out, “ran away from Germany and moved to the Crimea – also from the girl’s story in one shocking interview. Shocking – because the truth is unbelievable: a person abandons a house, a yacht, German stability and leaves for a “problematic” peninsula! Alina Lipp also visited Crimea many times, other places in Russia, and she went to Donbass with a specific goal – to see everything with her own eyes and put the truth on the Internet. Some German sources called her site Neues aus Russland promising, others scolded it mercilessly and wrote that “Ms. Lipp is Putin’s info-warrior.”
“Let's see how things go… The channels I opened on YouTube are mercilessly “clamped”. It was, for example, a blog about Crimea, where I always return and try to tell people about the incredible beauty of the peninsula and the wonderful people who live there.” She once wrote this on her website. And then I decided: rather than traveling back and forth, it’s better to stay! And continuously observe the events, and continue to cover them more voluminously. In addition to the site, Alina Lipp runs a Telegram channel, continues to “fight” with YouTube – she opened a new blog “German in Russia”. She continues to travel around the country, participates with great success in TV shows, does not cease to truthfully cover events in her now 100% homeland on the Internet and in the media.
