Anja Pabst grew up in the town of Schwedt in East Germany. Her parents were friends with a Russo-German family. She played with their son all her childhood and even learned a Russian children's song.
First time in the USSR In 1980, Anja and her parents went to the USSR for the first time. They visited relatives of the aforementioned mixed couple in Rostov-on-Don. "I'll probably say something pathetic, but I didn't feel any boundaries: We were welcome and it seemed that it wasn't contrived.
In Germany, friendliness and openness are not always natural, but, for me, these traits are key in my work and in my life." The fall of the Berlin Wall & a new life Anja graduated from a school with an advanced study of the Russian language. On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell.
A month later, she and her parents traveled to West Berlin for the first time. One of her first impressions was the difference between East Germans and West Germans. "They are still different now," Anja says.
Anja with her German classmates, 1987 "I was a pioneer, then a member of the ‘Union of Free German Youth’ (that's our ‘Komsomol’), for me the main value was mutual support. We all supported each other as a team. There was no such thing in West Germany.
There, they considered that the closest person to you is yourself; you had to think about personal gain first. Although, of course, there are exceptions." Studying in Russia in the 1990s With a good knowledge of Russian, Anja went to study at the Kal.
