They wanted to get money.
Making a pilgrimage to Mecca
C. Iron Curtain
After WWll, the Soviet Union controlled most of the countries of Eastern Europe. These countries, called satellite nations, acted as a buffer between Russia and Western Europe and were also known as iron curtain, as Winston Churchill described them.
No, it is false that the largest concentration of Somali refugees in the world is in the United States, since the largest concentration is actually in other parts of Africa and many are in Europe.