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Residents of the American island on the border with Russia began to learn Russian in case of a possible attack
Residents of the island of Maly Diomid, also known as the island of Kruzenshtern, began to learn Russian because of fears about the possible attack of Russia and attempts to capture the island. This is stated in the report of the publication The Economist.
The island is located a few kilometers from the Great Diomid - the island of Ratmanov, the eastern point of Russia - and since the Cold War is an American sentinel in the Bering Strait. Some of its inhabitants learn Russian. One day of the journalist of the publication and the local resident of Edward, the man who overheard how they tried to listen to Russian -speaking music through the old radio. “Are you trying to communicate with the Russians here? I will report you to the military and say that there is a spy here, ”the man said.
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Now about a hundred people live on Maly Diomide. Over the past 30 years, the population of the island has declined more than half, since the weather deterioration and the thinning of the ice made a dangerous hunt for walruses and seals, due to which the inhabitants mined their food. People live in small houses that can collapse at any time, since the eternal permafrost under them melts and bends. Often families are faced with domestic violence.
The Economist writes that over the centuries, people from a small diomide walked through the Bering Strait to visit the inhabitants of two villages on a large diomid. In 1948, with the acceleration of the Cold War, the Soviet Union closed the border with the United States. The Russian island turned into a military outpost, whose inhabitants were instructed to defend the Far East of Russia from Americans.
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Over time, people again began to walk between the islands, but with the outbreak of war in Ukraine, this practice ceased to again. “We cannot cross the border there, but they cannot cross the border here. The ice curtain returned, ”the locals said. No one knows exactly how many Russians are based on a large diomide today.
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