My brother millions of Russian live in the West.
For two and a half year now they get insulted, surveillanced, threatened, made ridiculed.
How many go back to Russia?
In the last 10 years I become much more blackminded about Russia.. it is not going the way I hope it will go. Like all other Russians I hope for cooperation with the West, increase in living standard, end to degeneracy, end to corruption, continue revival of the Orthodox Church..
This didn't happen. I am not living in Russia now, only visiting from time to time. Many young Russia people dream of going to the West.
It is bad situation. The West is turning bad very fast too. I try to stay positive but it is difficult.
I absolutely understand why Orthodox Christians and those from humbler or more cohesive societies would not be able to tolerate life in the US.
What they never taught us in school was the fact that about 1/3 of immigrants to the USA left for elsewhere or returned to the home countries within 5 years. America is and always has been loud, brash, ostentatiously consumeristic, while hypocritically being very self-righteous about its low-church "Christianity". For many immigrants this mix was unbearable, superficial, offensive, and lacking in true Christian piety or wholesome social and family values. I get it...I really do...and I struggle with these things every time I visit and when I lived there in the past.
I grew up in the USA and in school we always learned about how America is a "country of immigrants". We heard all the stories about "rags to riches" success and "if you can dream it, you can make it" hype and propaganda. Yes, compared to much of the world until that time (1970s/80s) that was largely true. But it is not true for the vast majority of immigrants today and the majority of native-born Americans, either.