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Are there any stories about Westerners moving to the USSR?
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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?
It's probably because it was cheaper than going to the US, and they were doing top-tier science.