Shortly after the 1991 collapse of USSR Communism, Mordechai Ben David, Rabbi Berel Zaltzman, Sandy Shmuely and Rabbi Baruch Shlomo Cunin spent Chanukah travelling the USSR performing and bringing the joy and light of Chanukah to the Jews of the country. This mission was encouraged by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who promised yet years before that there would come a day of freedom to Russian Jews.