My teacher and mentor in the Scribal Arts is from Romania, and he speaks Russian and not a word of Yiddish. I don’t know if he speaks Romanian, since I never heard him. We communicate in Hebrew, though he can speak English in a pinch. Seems that Russian is to the former Soviet Empire as Latin was to the Roman, and English is to the former British Empire. Everyone speaks it.
Probably until the Russian-Speaking Ukrainians started moving to Poland en masse, you wouldn’t dare speak Russian in Poland.
So you don't like American things and they aren't good enough for you.
It becomes clearer why you got kicked out of America.
If he’s from Romania I guarantee you he speaks Romanian, especially if he lived there.
Russian is like Chinese for Romanians - it’s totally different.