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Christopher, there was, also, a massive brain drain from old Soviet areas including Russia in the early 1990's. Ass soon as the wall came down, mathematicians and physicists packed their bags and moved to the west in droves. Those folks helped fuel the technology that was implemented in various aspects of the World Wide Web.

We received thousands of brilliant mathemeticians from formerly Soviet dominated areas.

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As was the case with post WWII Germany

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