My parents were acquainted. In the 90s, she married an American, not poor at all and not even a middle class.
She regularly visited her parents. Once I came with my husband, about 95-96 years old, I was studying at the institute then. We came to visit them. I remember very well how he said at the time: “You don’t understand what country you ruined.......... And you destroyed it all yourself.”
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Did your parents have a friend who moved to the USSR? Well there, married / married, or just took, dropped everything, bought a ticket and broke? At the bad end, a poor boy or an oppressed Negro came to the embassy and asked - take me to the USSR?

was not? How interesting. And why?