I think I might like a citation on that. I don't live in the Eastern Bloc, so the only programmers from the Eastern Bloc I meet are those that have left and are

I think I might like a citation on that. I don't live in the Eastern Bloc, so the only programmers from the Eastern Bloc I meet are those that have left and are working as programmers elsewhere. I suspect (but cannot prove) that good programmers would be over-represented in the set of Eastern Bloc programmers working elsewhere in the world.