Woj:
The virulent anti-communism many of them develop is result of several factors. First immigrant communities are often already reactionary, so the stuff is already in the air. But more importantly, many of those fellows left quite comfortable lives behind, jobs, houses, farms etc. which they gave up with immigration. So if their dream of the American riches does not come true, and they end cleaning toilets or flipping burgers at minimum wages - they cannot go back because they would loose status and respect of their former neighbors - for they would come defeated. Virulent anti-communism saves their faces - they may be cleaning toilets here but they will not go back, they say, because of "political oppression" which btw they never experienced. But after telling that story many times, they actually believe it. ---
Me: God knows there aren't a lot of virulently anti-Communist Russians who actually live in Russia. Stalin has a 35-40% posthumous approval rating here.
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