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I wasn't really paying attention. Did you guys know this (from wiki): In 1999, while working in Russia, Hans Reiser selected from a mail-order bride catalogue[
by mynameishere 18y ago
I wasn't really paying attention. Did you guys know this (from wiki):
In 1999, while working in Russia, Hans Reiser selected from a mail-order bride catalogue[8], and subsequently married, Nina Sharanova (Нина Шаранова), a Russian-born and trained obstetrician and gynecologist[9]
In Russia, there are trained physicians who sign up to be mail-order brides. Can you believe that? I figured they were all crack whores or scammers.
- ph0rque 18y agoI don't know what the situation is like now, but several years ago, one of my farther relatives, a doctor in a senior position, was recieving 700 Rubles a month as her paycheck ($30 today).
- wheels 18y agoWhen I visited Russia in 2002 on the four hour flight back I was sitting next to a girl who was 22, bright, attractive, had just dropped out of her senior year of college studying French and German literature ... and was a mail order bride on the way to be with her new husband. We talked almost the whole way and it took me some time to put together the pieces since she didn't just come out and say it. It was her way out. The logic was that even if things really went to shit that she could put up with it for three years until she had permanent residence and could get divorced if she needed to. It certainly changed my view on the stereotype.