In the early years of independence, Germany played a very active role in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, since many ethnic Germans lived in these countries, whose ancestors at the beginning of the Second World War were sent there from the Volga (where they lived for almost 200 years). According to German laws, these people had the right to repatriation to Germany. After the reunification of Germany, the German authorities became increasingly difficult to find funds to continue the policy of repatriation of ethnic Germans from the former Soviet Union, so they began to make targeted investments, at the same time creating jobs for this group of population, and contributing to the rise of the local economy as a whole, in the hope that This will prompt ethnic Germans to stay in the region. However, these investments only slowed down very little (if they slowed down at all) the outflow of the German population.