The choice of America was welcomed not only because it was a land of wealth and liberty, a racial melting-pot where they need not worry about racial discrimination, but "even more importantly, post-war America was a firm anti-communist bastion.
而除了少數留在德國，或轉往法國以外，大部分喀爾瑪克人都選擇美國，不僅是因為美國富庶、自由，也不僅是因為這是個「民族大熔爐」，不必擔心太多的歧視和異樣眼光，「更重要的，戰後的美國是最堅強的反共堡壘。