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Ooooh. I never thought of that.

That's pretty cool.

That's not to say everyone with a an English name was forcibly renamed. Many married into those names. Similarly, "Ivanoff" is a surprisingly common surname that came from Marriage to early Russian hunters.

Ivanoff?

Ever bumped into an Ivanons? Bah dum psh!

I'm guessing those marriages didn't happen too long ago, since marrying Russians would have been condemned before then because of the Cold War?

I'm honestly guessing here. I've read on American history, but the books aren't everything.