And here I thought "red square" was just a name. I stand corrected.

This can be color-corrected and sharpened for free. r/picrequests

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This is uncalled for. What is the point of making comments like this?

Edit: I also understand this may be a bad time to post things about Russia. But it is part of my past and it’s good to remember that people are also prisoners of their own country’s politics.

It’s a rectangle actually but…Russia

Thank you!

Exactly, Russia.

To be fair, "Red Rectangle" just doesn't have the same ring to it. So I'll give them a pass on that.

I used to work with a Vietnamese coworker whose parents met in Russia, while she was born in Prague. I forget her name, but I'm sure her last name was Nguyen.

This is really interesting! Thank you for sharing.

This is so common with communist countries back in the day! My mom told me whoever was deemed exceptionally smart would be sent to another country for studies. In my moms case she went to med school but quit because she was tricked into thinking she could practice outside of Russia. I’m unclear of the details but they basically said if you become a doctor you have to stay here, so she quit and left for America. I’m unclear how accurate I’m telling it.

In Mother Russia, the Square reds You.

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Yes, if there’s anything that politics teaches us, it’s that every single person in a country has the exact same beliefs.

studied at Moscow University and lived in student housing ? Did they by chance frequently cook a lot of salted fish, particularly did they fry it ?

All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.

My mom loves fried fish but it’s also such a Vietnamese thing too!

Magenta Square

Wow, that's a dirty trick they pulled. Sounds like the Soviets were desperate for good talent or something, if they were doing crap like that though.

they likely lived on the same floor as some of my relatives

Are your relatives Vietnamese too?

She would have had a very very hard time practicing as a doctor in the US. Russian medical education isn't really comparable. A LOT of Russian doctors come to the US and find out it's just incredibly difficult to be licensed here. They often go into an easier, medicine-related field. It can be done, but it's super hard.

She would have been able to practice in other countries though. Mexico, Brazil maybe, etc.

Then she made the right decision to quit

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Russian, lived on the same floor with all the Vietnamese students :)

Very cool

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