Originally Posted by CyberSEO

You are wrong here. In 70's only Jews were able to leave the country (don't you know they are chosen nation?) Russians had no right to relocate form the USSR. So they are not Russians. They are Jews and they are Soviets.

As the chief of NYPD said in some Discovery documentary, the Russian mafia of NYC is a name of the criminals of mostly Jewish nationality who came from the USSR (not Russia but all the former Soviet republics). You will barely meet an ethnic Russian living in Brooklyn...

When a Russian Mafia Is Not a Russian Mafia