Marina Weisband — politician with roots in the USSR
Marina Weisband is a Ukrainian-born German politician and psychologist who served as political director of the German Pirate Party during its breakthrough period (2011-2012) and became one of Germany's most thoughtful public voices on digital rights, democracy, and education. Born in Kyiv, she emigrated to Germany as a teenager.
Tracing the roots — Kyiv (Ukraine)
Born in Kyiv in 1987 and emigrating to Germany with her Jewish family in the 1990s, Weisband is part of the large Ukrainian-Jewish diaspora that transformed Germany's intellectual and political landscape. Her political career — advocating for digital rights, transparency, and participatory democracy — reflects the values of someone who experienced the Soviet system firsthand.
Kyiv (Ukraine). At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.