>>“I never doubted these Chaldeans.”
Any idea what 'Chaldeans' means in this context?
From my reading, they were a people mentioned in the bible, part of the Babylonian empire. Today there are Chaldean Christians living in about the same area (now Iraq) who have been persecuted. I know one who moved to the US. She's told me her entire family has left Iraq - but not all came to the US.
And none of that fits here - unless they also fled to Russia and are now part of the Duma?