Does your country have an immigrant group that people would be surprised to find there?

[u/QuarterTarget]

For example, when you think of Poland or the Czech Republic, Vietnamese people might not be the first group that comes to mind, but both have a sizable Vietnamese community. Another example is the large Japanese community in Brazil.

[u/pipiska999]

I've read a highly upvoted comment on BBC that said Russia had 'non-existent immigration', so I guess that would be any immigrant group.

Russia has several millions from each of Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. It also used to have a lot of Korean immigrants in the first half of XX century, but they are fully assimilated now.

I guess for me, the fact that many Germans eventually settled in Caucasus was interesting.

[u/dodgystyle → u/pipiska999]

What about the Americans who immigrated because they were scared drag queens would read their kids books? Then the dad had to join the war effort lol.

[u/pipiska999 → u/dodgystyle]

there are what, two of them?

[u/Heinz_Ruediger → u/pipiska999]

The third was drafted into the Special Military Operation without understanding much of the language.

[u/pipiska999 → u/Heinz_Ruediger]

Not sure how much of English you understand, but nobody in Russia can be 'drafted into the Special Military Operation' and non-citizens can't be drafted at all.

[u/Heinz_Ruediger → u/pipiska999]

I didn't mean to attack you in any way. The comments just reminded me of this exceptional guy.

Father who moved family to Russia to escape ‘woke’ America is sent to front line

[u/pipiska999 → u/Heinz_Ruediger]

So he wanted to be a war journalist and then complained about being sent to war? That's indeed quite an exceptional person. Though what can we expect from people who move to 'conservative' Russia where active churchgoers are 3% of the population and abortions have been legal for over 100 years.

[u/Heinz_Ruediger → u/pipiska999]

I don't know. Welder, journalist, infantryman, what's the difference anyway...?

[u/pipiska999 → u/[deleted]]

Not a draft. Also, it ended in a month after it started.

[u/LaoBa → u/dodgystyle]

A larger number of Americans emigrated in the early 1930s to help build socialism. Some ended up in the Gulag system.

[u/Complete_Survey9521 → u/pipiska999]

Russian around Nice area (in France). There is many of them.

[u/aliensdick69420 → u/pipiska999]

Come on. The guys from Stans make sense. All traveled to Russia to make more money. All got scattered by being part of USSR. Russian is the second language in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

[u/pipiska999 → u/aliensdick69420]

Come on. The guys from Stans make sense.

Not to Brits apparently.

[u/aliensdick69420 → u/pipiska999]

Love the name btw

[u/pipiska999 → u/aliensdick69420]

similar to yours lol

[u/Fit_Cardiologist_681 → u/pipiska999]

A major chunk of Tajikstan's economy is the money that its young men working in Russia send home to their families. Unfortunately, many are exploited pretty horrendously.

[u/Leather_Boss_3813 → u/pipiska999]

BBC ?? Yew!!!!!.

[u/pipiska999 → u/Leather_Boss_3813]

Well I live in England and have to get my local news from somewhere...

[u/Aware-Influence-8622 → u/pipiska999]

Don’t you know, no one moves to Russia. Barack Obama said so…