Once Exiled, Russia's Ethnic Germans Still Seeking A Way Back

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Their parents and grandparents were deported from their homes in the Soviet Union and resettled in remote parts of Russia during World War II, because Soviet authorities considered them potential traitors. Now pensioners, they yearn to return to the places their families were expelled from. This is the story of 70-year-old Alisa Meissner, who fought and won her case at Russia's Constitutional Court -- but is still unable to move.