Why were Russians permitted to emigrate to America during the Cold War?
Posted Feb 5, 2018, 3:24 AM UTC
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(((Russians)))
We really need to start being honest.
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Seriously, so much beating around the bush.
Why do we take in refugees from nations we are at war with now? This is the same question with the same answers but since Nietzsche never explicitly wrote about it, this place will refuse to speculate.
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Propaganda. What better propaganda for Americanism than having former Soviets extolling the virtue of their new country?
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Two reasons:
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To facilitate brain drain from an enemy country (good for the US, bad for the Russians).
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To hold them as examples against communism. For radical movements such as communism, apostasy is the worst thing that can happen.
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Because we were at war with communism as a whole, not individuals being strangled by it. Converting minds is far easier and more effective if done to a willing participant.
So why did so many of them become a part of the counter culture movement?
Anecdotally, most people I have met who were emigrants from the USSR became pretty conservative and pursued the classic idea of the "American dream".
They didn't, most of the people who were of Russian decent and in the counter culture movement (see Murray Bookchin) were children of immigrants of Russians from before the USSR days. If you talk to the people who came from the union they generally hate communism and are very conservative.
You may be right. I'm familiar with people like Yuri Bezmenov but as I look for the examples I was thinking of I'm not finding any. I swear I remember a sizable number, but all the people I was thinking of (Rand, Rubin, Hoffman, etc) did indeed arrive prior to the war.
Those people are not Russians. They are Trotskyite Jews.
I think you're speculating too much.
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