Apparently one can even live there for years and not know any English at all. "Why would I learn it? I don't go to USA". Also there's a joke about two Russians

Apparently one can even live there for years and not know any English at all. "Why would I learn it? I don't go to USA". Also there's a joke about two Russians in Brooklyn being asked direction to some place by a passer by (an American). They just shugged and the passer by went on. So one Russian tells another: "See, sure he can talk English, but what good did it do for him?".