tv Documentary RT October 31, 2020 9:30pm-10:01pm EDT
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oh man. one. sorry very sorry they. 6 started my interest i should say black americans in the soviet union in the thirty's was finding this portrait even though i had gone to grad school of the master's degree in russian literature i speak russian and i had lived over there in the late eighties finding this portrait was was a stunning development for me how did i not know about this. i didn't know that this was a phenomenon that there were many. african-americans who went to russia in the in the thirty's. in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the city view to union and many
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of the descendants still live in russia. and came at the most because you know no rush but also up a stock yes you got. your wife's at the top and. the rest of the day meet here the 1st day like hey you're more into that i want to be question and then like wait wait wait. they mash it all. back home black american suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that they lump us mud that he'll not be a losing still remain. smug 3 of them dealers is really one by else. but by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in the country about which they knew almost nothing at all some of the or ask your troops who are workers who read the memo to keep your ground grid 3
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clear out. the moon a few go boom to gold. coast motion a significant christiane a from the comfort of you and your glory and now almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went to russia. on possible worst time to go anywhere why not mean. when i come here. my above was well it be at that exciting that i'm not dead like odd or you've got to pull them. off and i'm getting i need stand on my ma by somebody in the addition of my about bush which is this is this was the other skit dealing deal with.
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i need a gun so pulling a slick on the team i don't wish to win it was thing at the boucher misled by me a ticket mixed race couples or such an issue in the united states i think for her because of the jim crow laws of that intense. hatred of african-americans so this notion that you could mix. was was absolutely. you know impossible for many whites to accept that it was illegal in many states but you all my. know what benefit the most on your children needing money is not. so much of a thought or. bullshits that i knew. or i see as much below which in particular this is a very new country being said to have the constitution there actually.
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codes to racial and gender and all different kinds of discrimination my grandfather george titan's. is from. virginia. and he ended up in russian the most peculiar way he was able to land an amazing contract with the ministry of culture in russia and he. got in a boat and then in the soviet union in 1930 s. it's important to remember that this was the period of the great depression and it was also a period in which the soviet government was during a massive recruitment people with turkey who killed. keith graduated in a versity as agriculturists there's no career moves there's no jobs and
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there's so much discrimination what he's supposed to do he went to a country where. he had no clue what was going on and you watch russia on the news soviet union communism why would you want to go there george times had a dream. and he found a solution and. history for some of the african americans who. in the 1930. 6 looking at. cern james crabbers and. james patterson became a national icon. famous circuits.
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the movies circus as an extraordinary story behind it i think it was said to be stalin's favorite. as you see in the opening scene there's a woman running from a an angry crowd threatening her and throwing rocks at her and at the bundle says and carrying is her black child. this german impresario at the climax of the film reveals the truth to the audience in the circus that she has a black child and of course the soviet response is so what do we care we don't care if he's purple polka dotted. and then he goes yelling is passed.
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to various members of the audience policing him a lot by one of the languages or so. i mean it couldn't be more. saccharine and more propaganda stick by it but it hit all the right nerves at the time as explain credibly popular even the song should have gotten. that on the. air. was even a sort of a defacto anthem of the soviet union. it's definitely fear to say that those who are your were the crown and leader
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and anti-racism. the government. and. if you. think. you're right. i think michael that we. all know. that little black boy from the circus movie is now $87.00 he was born and raised in the soviet union he served in the navy as a submarine and he became an author he wrote short stories in the early 1990 s. after the soviet union collapsed. to the usa to his father. homeland to translate his work into english in our lives alone in a social apartment in washington. or mina. moon they. want to go.
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there live. through the real. through go their. baby boom the. now so real do. they believe there. could be. jim's father going to patterson like many other african-americans moved to the u.s.s.r. to work on a contract basis but he loved the country so much he stayed and started a family here. travelled in circles in the soviet union and moscow there he would not have in the united states had a wife. 3 sons career he was busy all the time his wife with. she was. fairly well known designer stations what he saw at that time and 132. in stalin's moscow however strange it might sound
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now he saw a loss of opportunity there. were tears. a lot. of the big guns of. what i'd see as earl of the. old souls. that only got the. duck but at the gun time he can own steam also she. must finish. yeltsin's cooking last article. it's going to get said. i was never able doms let me know what you will be very nice you will mr shelby i mean you mustn't be decked out all over there are still to middling at.
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good older. at the. los angeles. ines are ross the daughter of serviette actor robert ross was born and raised in russia and now lives with her son james near moscow in a big country house. james was a talented athlete as a boy. in the late 1980 s. he played for the reserve team of one of the country's leading football clubs spacek moscow could anybody come. to a little. girl was still. there or be this. me. lunch so this point. so did racism exist in the
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serbia to union. with the mildest of my own but i knew i knew the lady and the ib at this level promotes reporter a pastor what happened after the iron curtain fell when the descendants of those african-americans could return to america their ancestral homeland. to deal with and why now 100 years later is russia again attracting african-americans for skin. tone of the kind of war the proud faces are way in the thick of ideas. when it comes to cope with 19 the most common physiological symptoms off fever dry cough and fatigue but the psychological effects are less well known. with infections on the rise again and new lock downs looming how will the novel coronavirus affect our mental health could the home out lost the pandemic itself.
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an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country threaten the wife of an american. we do everything in our power to protect the. water they are skipping climate change poses the same threat right now alaska does seem some of the fuss just coastal erosion in the world we lost about 30 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. is fast enough means the river is $35.00 closer the power. was 4 i don't think we're part of earth for. forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i robot must
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obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders that conflict with the 1st law show your identification for should be very careful about official intelligence and the point over you see is to trace trusts every one of them shia. areas chozen with artificial intelligence will summon the demon. the robot must protect its own existence as excuse for. not just the celestial is so cool so yes that ice is mum so school so use the tiniest misspelt those in modern russia or it would be hard to find anyone who has known to fueling the hunger she's worked on television since the late 1990 s.
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posting so. popular talk shows including russia's 1st t.v. show to discuss sex. the british despite the pressure of the british were not enough of a full head of everything their show i would be. just especially i should. look at the movie. that nico when you will. find his father george times moved to serve you to union in the 1930 s. along with many other african-americans and settled in the banks of youth republic where he helps develop cattle breeding on collective. that's where
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a 1000000 spent childhood. new with. the deal is that there might be you must prove. he said stuart the. big here. in this city is here illusion i get it that i don't sneer that i says no when medicare. is by me to get the bill and that i see is an order bill chest to. go live out of all the new my mom. when you will but that was done you. mean my dear old media that when you published when you. really knew. there
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was racism to. wow your. but if they work or london or paris take you to read in the very best hotel where that's now when they experience you know a mirror of. daily life or an african-american in the thirty's was. you know frustrating there would be parts of town that you would not be able to go to or you would only be allowed to go to certain stores there were accommodations were black there would be separate correlates for example of why it would be separate water fountains. and they would usually be lower quality i've thought about this many times i don't even i don't know why more african-americans didn't. try to go. there has other places maybe it doesn't occur to them. to comb their will to cease to be sniffling meaning to push their nests. in the way
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to new york that has said this to you i was because i still would duck stop with the cup the porter you know and them i was freezing and yet there was little doubt that sally is a toy that still to be done deal it's got to be natural. when the soviet union collapsed the descendants of those african-americans had the chance to travel and to see their ancestral homeland for the 1st time in georgetown just grandson tines was one of the few who went to the u.s. in the early 1990 s. might have pitched in a boat or coil would be a terrific bitch. but it's your 1st so score so you. cook the fish sure someone has a boy or a small not again his will in the. area we did see in the dust bowl. in the east more than a dozen which were bright you could be forgiven that says consumers are born to. streets and law course of the born years or the year we do a story short enough to do is that the that you must read the world postal short of
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what your stocks cause sedated. q there was more than a burger cost to produce but shows totally acquired the work was what they studied scored in the us so that they would be with him while you were there with the tape that little dust up with the towards him and the what or the more you know with them yes that is it's you know them their style says it but i do preach in new porno soaps nice to talk with so i would do it it sure i do with michele so it's interior with the tomato and support your story shows i. should think you know what i see the show so stood me gotta go out but it was kick up the. name of the star you know score one in a q and you got sent the curtis machine lean more so than iraq with which it has no business so back to season. i mean in tediously plus we're going to be able to just post on this at the q. and a good. meal what i see him as sober. unlike you don't you times his own 15000000 times moved to the usa and became an american citizen. she's lived there for the
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last 10 years. still. loses is a good idea. what should you do admit a serious and use the you know what i see and i may be consequent to the you know what you've been in my. thought of the year with you blue sky bus leave new war the old yes we should leave usual with the d.v.d. in your store with that you see it would be nice to. have. a familiar gun. was there so that they may feel the same way and be in the city if they need a witness themes or there's a now little through wood at the correct teachers in your bus was there. those doubles of on you may dispute you know what is over there says come so use it to show sport not. such
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a waste of my school's commenced which will probably. be as a corn show him a b. or a she's could do with out of milk resist drugs as i know for to school. with the. company of cutlery gave it a set name is a story of this president of my discovery comes. from the city of new business the stuff that's made out of them or both of them are never really going to. go as my friend of mine used to compress even much from the cut of the period and you gore. only know most christians he's premier and it's a from c. and it is known that you are now going to do us must be a wheel horse this way mom we said no no starts with their own personal or corrective steps who has as much as you would chose not to share with lots of us so . why did i make up my mind to move to russia i wanted to
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leave a country where i was. nation racism. have we are all the racial problems from the 1930 no not at all if you look at the recent events. it's all too frustratingly similar to. decades past. it was a situation i remember it was yesterday i aks for help from the police where i was like an emergency and then i became the victim i had 3 police officers. grab me and just throw me down on the ground. and i had a bruise on my hand on my arm. i thought they were going to kill me. that they were going to shoot me and it was by because peace in the series was the worst
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experience of my life that i do not want to ever ever live again. because i grew up in a normal or russian orthodox family you know we're not gangsters. you know no one has a gun and we don't have any hoodies at the police officer to help me why aren't they helping me. it's history that's repeated over and over and over again and it hasn't been fixed my great grandfather george time spearing so that. you know in the great depression sorites movement it's the same thing just a different version. of what. i've been living in moscow for one year exactly i teach english i'm a teacher. i feel free and living in russia. and in russia in the
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matter what time it is i can walk outside and i'm say. we're standing outside the metro area and then with the police officers too close ups is walking towards us and my heart's beating fast like. why because you know living in america. you traumatized and i was like talk i'm scared and then my friend just moved here from america and she's russian he's like really 5 minutes later that same police officer comes back with the biggest bouquet of flowers a stranger and tells me welcome to russia you belong here. i do belong here it's a piece of me and the more i had the more i'm here the more it i see that i'm not
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going anywhere and the russians that i meet here 1st they're like ok you're a foreigner that i want to speak russian and then wait wait wait. the national. thing is set the scene will just go single. at the close of the deal with this way you. know. would you go into the worship with zeal of. the a little bit below. with which history is still a better deal less might do which was pretty vicious in the end of the things i'm not. going to tell in your. political ideologies to do the skills and much of. what you buy. which is. why you.
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use it. that is both new york. this is just published because the. i knew it watching got its out. mama put a lot of trees in the cup with me as leisure will sit by in the more talk with my yeah. with this it's the. second. just leave it to him. let's. move those in the new bin it's saying. on the bridge at the noon eastern us promise and the stars. in the. room to see. him use the it's the.
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has a history of complicated and heated presidential what's different is that the biggest political events of the last 4 years is happening amid the coronavirus and the rest of them to the level of civil unrest sparked by the death george floyd. of the radical groups on both sides of the political spectrum. right there with rick if your. to say. these groups attract barely a week members who have taken to the streets may control tasks look like full scale . use the fear. of what's about. this demonstrators are sometimes heavily armed they are not afraid of violence or law enforcement. if you will of war. we're going
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to meet those groups. are there ready to go to fight for what they believe the state for this country. fighting for his life a priest who was shot outside an orthodox church in the french city of police and so far have not confirmed if the suspect they have in custody is responsible. the incident comes just 2 days after a terrorist brutally murdered 3 people in a in that investigation is now zeroing in on the killer's ties to extremist groups and on his family to deny any involvement. my son does not do such things even hama cheek and i want the truth we are enormously scholz good people who stand against terrorism. and the british prime minister says that there is no alternative as he announces in good will go back into a nationwide lockdown after surgery.
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