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Soviet Immigrants Develop Tight-Knit, if Scattered Community
They came from Russia with love, and not much else.
Today, in their twilight years, they form a hidden community in the subsidized apartment houses of Montgomery County. Many of them were professionals in the former Soviet Union and are now getting by on fixed incomes, happy to be living quietly in downtown Bethesda and booming Silver Spring....
Theirs is a tight-knit, if scattered, community, a waning generation clinging to the Russian language and culture. Soon enough, they will be gone, leaving children, grandchildren and great-granchildren fluent in English and assimilated into American life. Theirs is but a blink in time, a passing community that is here and now, but not for long and not forever.
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