English speakers in Russia

[Charles Brown]

Add to this the fact that you were here in 1994, just three years after the
USSR fell apart. English was not a commonly studied subject in the Soviet
Union -- hell, Bulgarian or Moldovan was more useful than English. Moreover,
though Soviet education in general was superb (and Russian education still
is; I have never seen a more highly educated group of people in my life --
the hatboy at the local bar reads Fichte for fun) its foreign-language
training sucked. These people could very easily have been very highly
educated.

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I have never seen a more highly educated group of people in my life 

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CB: Nothing but the best for the working class

 Fichte, hmmm, Hey, maybe the SU fell because they let too much idealist philo into the curriculum :>)