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I have a friend who did a stint in the peace corps and lived in Ukraine for a year. He said the economy was incredibly depressing. He said the women were cute but it wasn't worth it as the living conditions were awful and a lot of the men drank way too much and were really hostile.

Do girls in these countries seriously want to marry foreigners? Why would a guy marry a girl from one of these places? It seems obvious that any girl who is willing to do this is just using the guy for a meal ticket and will divorce him as soon as possible.

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I thought that the conditions in the Baltic States are much better than they are throughout the rest of the ex-USSR. Supposedly permission to vacation there was a sought-after privledge in Soviet times. Can someone confirm/debunk that for us?