Seeing Russia from Little Diomede is common knowledge here in Alaska. I worked on the Trans Alaska Pipeline with an Eskimo lady who was from Little Diomede. She said, even though Big Diomede was close, it represented America’s enemy, Russia, and the people on Little Diomede stayed away from it.
Stalin evacuated all of the people from Big Diomede and moved them to the mainland; he didn't want them strolling across the border in the wintertime and visiting with their American cousins.