The Russians are kicking themselves, not only have they lost 300,000 men, but piles of military equipment - and their economy has an arms sale base.
‘They ain’t the only one who regrets losing them. It was a lost opportunity not persuading them to come to Australia, especially when the USSR was breaking up.
The influx of these immigrants increased the intelligence quotient of the Israeli population dramatically. Generally the majority of these immigrants were better educated than the average Israeli citizens,.
The ironic part is that, most of them didn’t even want to settle in Israel, they preferred nations like Canada and the US etc.
The US even changed its immigration criteria for Jews to placate the Israeli PM, by making it difficult for them to settle in the US.
Israel relies on persecution or crisis involving Jews as an opportunity to increase it population. I look at them as a skilled human resource that would have benefited Australia.
