“We won the war, but you Russians did well, too. You helped us.” That’s what they teach them in school. I nearly fell off my chair! What do they know about Russia? That Russians drink vodka by the glassful and there’s a lot of snow there… —We came for the salami, but, as it turns out, the salami is not as cheap as we’d imagined… —We leave Russia as brains and arrive here as hands…Migrant workers…My mother writes that the Tajik janitor back home has already managed to bring all of his relatives to Moscow.
