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Because there were only two ladders "up" in society: science and the military. There was also a secret third way of "bureaucrat", but without connections (or if you were a jew) you were shut out.
Why do people think the first big emigration wave from SU in the 80s were Jews fleeing to Israel?
In US now kids think they can "make it" by being an (((influencer))) or a sports star or whatever faggy shit alpha-gen thinks of now ("muh skibidi", probably).
