What are you going on about, Demento? The 'momentum of a Soviet Union' in the 1930s - you mean the Stalinist dictatorship that murdered millions of Ukrainians with a staged famine in 1932-33 (the Holodomor) or that collaborated with Nazi Germany even as western Europe was being subjugated by Hitler's legions? That empire collapsed (thankfully), although the KGB man in the Kremlin seems intent on putting Humpty back together again...as for Brazil or Mexico - I can't think of too many Canadians who'd trade a place here for one in either of those two countries (and, it seems to me, we get 'refugees' - sic! - from both but I have never heard of a single Canadian seeking refugee status in Russia, Brazil, or Mexico).