rob: The truth is shocking, isn’t it? A “quite revolution” had occurred in Orthodoxy over the last 35+ years. Orthodoxy had become increasingly Chareidi to the point today that American orthodoxy is overwhelmingly Chareidi, as a highly respected secular national polling/survey outlet with no skin in the game or reason to fudge had reported. In Israeli Orthodoxy it is the same story.
The reason this is a hidden revolution is because chareidim have a tendency to congregate and live in very close proximity to each other and overwhelmingly live in large numbers in a small number of metropolitan areas’ very limited neighborhoods. So when you’re outside in the wider world it’s very easy to miss this phenomenon.
As far as the Russians I’m referring to, they are not even Jewish. They are outright gentiles. Even the Zionists admit add much and thus try to pretend they “converted” them despite their continued eating pork and not keeping Shabbos post-pseudo-conversion.