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BecomeABenefit t1_ix8ebag wrote

And here I thought "red square" was just a name. I stand corrected.

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bobalou2you t1_ix8h42l wrote

It’s a rectangle actually but…Russia

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BecomeABenefit t1_ix8opll wrote

To be fair, "Red Rectangle" just doesn't have the same ring to it. So I'll give them a pass on that.

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friggintodd t1_ix9wmne wrote

All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.

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midnightJizzla t1_ix8u5wy wrote

I used to work with a Vietnamese coworker whose parents met in Russia, while she was born in Prague. I forget her name, but I'm sure her last name was Nguyen.

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yttikat OP t1_ix8yvl7 wrote

This is so common with communist countries back in the day! My mom told me whoever was deemed exceptionally smart would be sent to another country for studies. In my moms case she went to med school but quit because she was tricked into thinking she could practice outside of Russia. I’m unclear of the details but they basically said if you become a doctor you have to stay here, so she quit and left for America. I’m unclear how accurate I’m telling it.

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ambulancisto t1_ixasbl4 wrote

She would have had a very very hard time practicing as a doctor in the US. Russian medical education isn't really comparable. A LOT of Russian doctors come to the US and find out it's just incredibly difficult to be licensed here. They often go into an easier, medicine-related field. It can be done, but it's super hard.

She would have been able to practice in other countries though. Mexico, Brazil maybe, etc.

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yttikat OP t1_ixatgtg wrote

Then she made the right decision to quit

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HawkeyeTen t1_ixabitn wrote

Wow, that's a dirty trick they pulled. Sounds like the Soviets were desperate for good talent or something, if they were doing crap like that though.

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cheezwizmonger t1_ix8ykyf wrote

This is really interesting! Thank you for sharing.

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Belgeddes2022 t1_ix8yvti wrote

In Mother Russia, the Square reds You.

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PresentzAdvance t1_ix9wjt7 wrote

studied at Moscow University and lived in student housing ? Did they by chance frequently cook a lot of salted fish, particularly did they fry it ?

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yttikat OP t1_ix9wwx2 wrote

My mom loves fried fish but it’s also such a Vietnamese thing too!

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PresentzAdvance t1_ixanikn wrote

they likely lived on the same floor as some of my relatives

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yttikat OP t1_ix8g7ba wrote

This is uncalled for. What is the point of making comments like this?

Edit: I also understand this may be a bad time to post things about Russia. But it is part of my past and it’s good to remember that people are also prisoners of their own country’s politics.

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ottersaredopebro t1_ix9cub4 wrote

Yes, if there’s anything that politics teaches us, it’s that every single person in a country has the exact same beliefs.

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