LOL! I just knew the bulldozer driver was Russian. I never heard the fact about it before today though.
Man, until you meet the 'rough' version of Russians, especially Russian Jews, you haven't met a Russian. The furniture movers who came to move me from one state to another were all Russians and they were hulking Cossacks who were dead grim serious. Like they were born tough. As in, think of the toughest guy you've ever met in your life and these Russians would have been tougher than him at fifteen years old. Out of central casting tough. The kind of Russian mobsters who are now taking over South Brooklyn and scaring away the original mobsters who lived there comfortably.
I can just imagine a Russian just like these guys not stopping his armored bulldozer for no hippie American girl from Seattle if he was ordered to mash a Palestinian terrorist's home flat with his Caterpillar.
I'm just trying to imagine such a guy with an armored D-9, and license to doze at will. Wow.
You have that mostly right. The German Jews first immigrated here. They were richer and more refined. They called the later arriving cruder Russian Jews kikes. My heritage is half Russian Jew so I’m just saying.....