BS”D
Here is the view from “the battlefield” regarding the FSU “olim”:
Not one of those mixed couples emigrated to EY for any reason other than a free ride. When they left, the situation here looked bleak and thanks to the Shamir-Bush kombina, the US was closed to them. (Some could and did choose Germany.)
Now that there are more opportunities here than in EY, the most entrepreneurial former “olim” have returned and are doing very well in larger cities throughout the FSU.
Some real Jews stayed in EY and are contributing to society, though many would like to move as they are working far below their capabilities and are looked down on because of their origins.
Today, the Sochnut representatives here basically do nothing but hold a few cultural programs because no one is interested in emigration anymore. If anyone is emigrating, it is a handful of baalei tshuva who really want to learn in EY (and many return to teach and serve as rabbonim in the FSU) and a few idealistic students who often also return once they grow older and wiser or even sooner because they realize they have become lowly, despised “Russians” in EY.
As far as potential converts and the parents of same are concerned, the non-Jewish half of the mixed couples often still wears a cross and worships in a kloister, and the worst of the non-Jewish olim, where actually NEITHER half of the couple is an halachic Jew or where a non-Jew of Jewish heritage emigrated based on the faulty Law of Return, includes quite a number of anti-Semites.
If they convert, it is not out of any sort of sincerity; it is just so that the next generation can marry Jews. This is the legacy of Communist inspired dishonesty, preserved thanks to secular Zionism and those rabbonim who are blindsided by the Zionist tuma masquerading as Religious Zionism.
This is indeed my last post regarding this subject. I only posted again because I have first hand knowledge of the fifth column that has emigrated from here and now wants to undergo McConversions so they can marry, often into the lowest social strata of “indigenous” EY secular society which is still one step up from the social status of a Russian speaking immigrant or child thereof, halachically Jewish or otherwise.