Most of the Russians who came over were very conservative.
Of course, in those days, conservative meant anti-Communist, anti-Soviet.
If we change the terms of debate, not everybody's going to follow.
The old-time refugees really hated Stalin and Communists and liberal dupes but weren't always very keen on absolutely free markets.
That would have been too much of a change for them, though the Russian teachers generally thought better of Reagan than their American students did.
Today's Russian moguls (I don't actually know any of them) are more capitalistic, but also more liberal on social issues (like millionaires everywhere nowadays).
The ones I know are more or less household names in the sec biz. Dmitry Gryaznov, for example, thinks he knows that islam is very peaceful.
Others hold that there is no right or wrong, just shades of gray - a prevalent view at places like Microsoft. Others think that no shariah law exists.
None of them is worth a gob of my spit.