Are there any stories about Westerners moving to the USSR? - eviltoast

Very interested in learning about this scenarios that are usually not discussed as much as what you typically read from anti communists in the media.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I’ve noticed a lot of my physics and higher mathematics professors are Russian and lived in the USSR for a good portion of their lives. I was curious about whether this was particularly common and why but hadn’t really considered it too much until I saw your comment. Was higher education just particularly easy to obtain?

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      9 months ago

      It’s probably because it was cheaper than going to the US, and they were doing top-tier science.