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Are there any stories about Westerners moving to the USSR? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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