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To: Bob Tate who wrote (7862)2/24/1998 7:56:00 PM
From: goldsnow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116798
 
There was a joke in Russia when Carter policies pressured USSR
to allow some emigration of minorities (Mostly Jews, but also
Armenians and ethnic Germans and politically undesirables

" What would you do if they (Russians) open the borders?"

"I climb the tree"

-Tree? Why?!

"I do not want to be tramped"

No reliable statistic but out of roughly 2 mln Jews (Some were
listed as Russians, in an attempt to avoid or modify discrimination) about 300,000
remained.. (than many Russians tried to prove "Jewish" roots
in order to catch a "train" to the West...