since 1990 With the collapse of communism in the late 1980s a major wave of Jewish emigration from the former Soviet Union ensued. In the fifteen years that followed (1990-2005) an estimated one-million-one-hundred-thousand (1.1 million) Jews left the former USSR: approximately 800,000 emigrated to Israel; 300,000 emigrated to the U.S.; and over 200,000 emigrated to Germany. each immigrant get 800 ? per month, free housing an medical car. |
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