Hagarag, before saying anything about Soviet Union do not forget that educational system in Soviet Union was much higher than here in US. The Soviet high schools and Universities provided the highest education for everybody, unlike the US where u have to get into the Ivy League schools, in order, to get the highest education. In Soviet union people were informed about everything, unlike in US, where most of the people have no information about anything. The Soviet educational system still exists in ARmenia. I'm 19 years old and i didn't get the chance to attend a Russian school in Armenia, because the same year Armenia broke away from the Soviet union, so i had to attend an Amenian school. When I 1st moved to US, our schools here were 2 years behind the ARmenian (soviet) schools. The schools here do not go further into a subject, i mean schools here only cover the basics let's say in chemistry or biology. In ARmenia, for example, instead of taking bilogy for only a year or a semester, he started studying biology from 6th or 7th grade until the 10th grade. The same thing with other subjects. ARmenia really prospered during the Soviet Union scientifically, economically (in a way i guess), culturally, moorally etc. I'm sure who ever was born and lived in Armenia or in other Soviet republic in here, will understand what I'm trying to say. Not many people like communism, but we can't deny that the life back then wasn't good, even though i do not remember or even experienced much because i was born in '83 but i do remembr many things. I always hear older people often talking about those days and about all the good memories they had living in ARmenia. I won't make any comments on the same thing that u said about the ARmenians from Arab coutries, since i'm not a middle eastern ARmenia and never been there, but I'm sure that everything was different there and that educational system wasn't good as it was in Soviet Union. You won't impress us by intentionaly letting us know that you belong to the elite class in US, because the elite class in SU was much educated and smarter (most of them at least). In your previous post you made it sound like it's bad to be from the Soviet Union or the Middle east because we were not free, we didn't live under a democratic system and that we were brainwashed somehow. But i can assure you that i'm very glad that i was born in my country, lived during and after the Soviet time, saw Armenia becoming independent (i do have some memories of the riots during the collapse of the SU), attended ARmenian school for some years, and at the same time went through the horrible years of '92-'94 i believe. Without living in Soviet union, it is wrong for you to say that the soviets didn't think clearly because if they didn't think at all teh soviet union wouldn't have been considered a superpower. At least, SU didn't lie about landing on the moon.