Mass flight of tech workers turns Russian IT into another casualty of war

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

RIGA, Latvia — In his two-bedroom Moscow apartment, 35-year-old start-up wizard Pavel Telitchenko spent years mulling a move from Russia, fearing the gradual rise of a police state. Then, three days after the Kremlin’s tanks rolled into Ukraine, he made the hard choice — packing up his young family, along with his prized vinyl-record collection, and joining a historic exodus that includes a massive outflow of Russia’s best and brightest minds in tech.

“I did not want to make an emotional decision, but I could not raise my son in a country like that,” said Telitchenko, who resettled in neighboring Latvia in March with his wife and 3-year-old son. He spoke in their comfortable Riga two-story walk-up, standing near a high shelf with a white Santa Claus statue from his childhood — a reminder of what he had left behind.

“The war made me realize that Russia will not change,” he said.

Western attention is focused on the millions of refugees who have fled Ukraine since the Russian assault began on Feb. 24. But Russia is also in the midst of an emigration wave that is upending its spheres of arts and journalism, and especially the world of tech.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mass-flight-of-tech-workers-turns-russian-it-into-another-casualty-of-war/ar-AAWNqA5

Heckuva job Pooty Poot.

[Wounded Bear]

1. The Manhattan Project was staffed with a lot of German physicists who fled Hitler...nt

[Lancero]

3. More specifically, Jewish physicists. Jewish scientists in general, really.

They chased off their best and brightest, meanwhile the concept of Deutsche Physik meant that what they did have left ended up rejecting a lot of the predecessors work entirely out of hand.

[Cha]

2. TY

💙💛

[Talitha]

4. "The war made me realize that Russia will not change"

That's pretty chilling.