In 1947 the government of the USSR have decided to forbid marriages between the Soviet citizens and foreigners. To this there was quite reasonable reason: many years after war the huge contingent of the Soviet armies was deployed in the countries of the East Europe. Both many young soldiers and officers had time to start families with russian women, children were born. And when armies began to allocate back in the Union, there was an incident: here in the country set of lonely women, and men there from come family. The government also has accepted the appropriate decision: Not only to forbid marriages with foreigners but also the made marriages to recognize void. Thus the set of the usual families was broken. Have cancelled the decision not soon, only in the beginning of 60th years ...
From a position post Soviet men marriages of our women with foreigners - not that other as "sale for a flank of jam and a box of cookies". The international Russian women marriages - phenomenon quite distributed in the world, but about shameful self-sale "on export" are spoken for some reason only by the Russian-Ukrainian men concerning the Russian-Ukrainian women. Nevertheless, since 1991 workers of the registry offices have noted sharp increase of Russian women marriages. Foreigners prefer to be registered in territory of Ukraine basically for two reasons: the guarantee of that the wife, as against the bride, after arrival the another's country at once will not run away and, second, difficult visa procedures will be easier for overcoming, when on hands there is a marriage certficate. Thus especially often visitors of wedding palaces appear Americans and Germans.