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Immigrant voters compare U S democracy with Soviet past
In Brooklyn Brighton Beach immigrants from the former Soviet Union describe U S election turmoil as starkly different from one party Soviet rule. They praise voting as a chance to change outcomes, while recalling compulsory ballots and 99 percent turnouts.
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New York
Josef Stalin
Yevgeny Gorelik
Belarus
U.S
Gorelik
Soviet Union
Florida
Brooklyn
Brighton Beach
Vladimir Rozenshteyn
Moscow
Rozenshteyn
Communist Party
Lana Khrapunskaya
Jewish Community Center
Ukraine
Khrapunskaya
United States
Boris Kaplan
St. Petersburg
Russia
Kaplan