Posted on 06/14/2016 7:08:13 PM PDT by BlackAdderess
The reason is the Citizenship act of 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_of_Russia
What an Idea!
“Don’t care if you were Born Here, when your Parents leave you leave with Their Citizenship, no more Anchor Babies”
Let me throw a monkey wrench into the “positive” side of Russia dropping a person’ dual citizenship if they lived outside the USSR since 1992.
What better way for a Soviet/Russian spy to become a sole national citizen of the US instead of having a dual citizenship with Russia. That would take FBI surveillance raison d’etres off the operational table.
While this is a little far-fetched, I’ve learned long ago that if you think someone/country won’t do something, they will.
Russia doesn’t give a damned about Soviet/Russian Jews who live abroad because they no longer pose any real intelligence threat against them. However, it would give cover to real Russian operatives because it would make it look like Mother Russia didn’t trust them.
Like James Bond, “Never Say Never” when it comes to the communists/Russians/Islamists and what they won’t do as versus what they will do.
We never thought that the Japanese would attack Hawaii despite the signs, nor that Kruschchev would put nuclear missiles in Cuba. Surprise, surprise.
It might not be targeted at Jews, or perhaps not just Jews.
Maybe they see it as a blanket vulnerability - millions of people who could blend in perfectly in Russia, that have been subject to recruitment and training by foreign intelligence services. Perhaps they have caught a few spying on them.
Another possibility is that some number may have been muslims, who now reside in countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union. They may not want a large population with easy access to Russia, who might be getting radicalized in mosques beyond their control.
Maybe it is just domestic politics - the administration doesn’t like the way they tend to vote.
Or maybe they don’t want the people who have seen the Western world to be able to return. TV propaganda would not work half as well on them and they might tell other Russians uncomfortable things a about the world.
I have agreed, until recently. Naturalized US citizens can still have their newfound citizenship revoked. That means you become a man without a country.
Also, if you have parents still in your home country, you have easier access to handle property and family issues with what is left of your former citizenship.
I still say dual citizenship is not optimal, but I now see why it could be kept.
The Our Lord's Transfiguration's Church in Kizhi
Rides in sledges drown by three horses ("troika)
Classical ballet
Paintings in the Hermitage, the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov gallery
Hounding hares, foxes or the boar
Climbing rocks in Siberia
...it will certainly apply to thousands of Jews who emigrated from Russia after July 1, 1991 — the date on which the Soviet Union, then in its final days, ended its policy of taking away the passports of Jews who left the country with exit visas to Israel. (The Soviet Union was formally dissolved on December 25, 1991.)IOW, Putin continues to march Russia back to the Gulag.
We should do that here. American citizenship should not be a flag of convenience.
It's a pressure cooker over there, for sure.
They also have the non-Jewish presence of non-Jews.
From Wikipedia:
The demographic features of Israel are monitored by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.
The State of Israel has a population of approximately 8,463,500 inhabitants as of the end of 2015.
74.9% percent of them are Jews (about 6,336,000 individuals),
20.7% are Arab (about 1,757,400 individuals), while the remaining
4.4% (about 370,000 individuals) are defined as "others" (including family members of Jewish immigrants who are not registered at the Ministry of Interior as Jews, non-Arab Christians, non-Arab Muslims and residents who do not have an ethnic or religious classification).
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They must all work together for the country to thrive. They SEEMED to do that when we went there a few years ago. However, I do know that things change.
But, thanks anyway for the mini-trip. You are welcome to go and live there. I prefer this wonderful country.
Большое спасибо
I meant just a visit :)
:o) Whew.
I was thinking the opposite, what better way for a Western spy to gain access to the Russian Federation than to show up with an old expired Soviet passport and claim Russian citizenship?
What Western spy? Our last known successful American spy who penetrated the Kremlin was Morris Childs, a former Soviet operative/Communist Party USA secret leader from Illinois/Chicago, etc (See: John Barron, “Operation SOLO” re America’s man in the Kremlin and Havana, about 1995.
We have been incredibly inept in penetrating the Soviet Union, Red China, No. Vietnam, No. Korea or even Cuba.
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