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psychological interrogation psychological torture of the cia disseminated within the u.s. intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years then to other victims say they still live with the consequences today. what started my interest i should say in black americans in the soviet union in a thirties was finding this portrait even though i hadn't gone to grad school of a 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 soviet union and many of
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their descendants still live in russia. and the name of the most liquid in the on the west but us though up out of stock yes you've got. the sun the way i set the chair up and ships the rest of that i meet here the 1st day like hey you're part of that i want to speak russian and then like wait wait wait. in the russia that also . back home black americans suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that they lump us what the real and ideal losing still remain. smothered it then be a losing issue and really one by else of. the 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 really do need to know to keep your ground.
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lulay a dwarf you go on to go on. you. know as much in a significant cristiana from the comfort of you and your glory now almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went to russia. on probable worst time to go anywhere why not mean. when i come here. to. my above post well it be at that exam that i'm not like odd oil available to this couple off and i'm getting i need sun on my ma by somebody in the addition
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of my about bush which isn't much of this is i suppose. dealing deal with this. i need a gun so pulling a slick on the team i don't wish to win you posting at the boucher misled by me ticket mixed race couples or such an issue in the united states i think for her because of all 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 meeting is not. so much of a thought or. bullshits that i knew. below which incredibly this isn't
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a new country being since it has the constitution there actually. codes to racial and gender and all different kinds of discrimination my grandfather george times. is from. virginia. and he ended up in russia in the most peculiar way he was able to land an amazing contract with the ministry of agriculture 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 because.
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he graduated in a versity as agriculturist there's no career moves there's no jobs and there's so much discrimination what he's supposed to do he went to a country where. key 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. she made history for some of the african americans who are workers union in the 1930 s. . look at. cern james crabbers. james patterson became a national icon. famous
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circuits. the movie circus has an extraordinary story behind it i think it was said to be stalin's favorite. if 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 been 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 yearly is passed.
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to various members of the audience policing him a lawyer by one of the languages of research. i mean it couldn't be more. saccharine and more propaganda stick by but it hit all the right nerves at the time as explain credibly popular even the song should have. that on them. was even a sort of a defacto anthem of the soviet union. it's definitely fear to say that those who appeared yunior with
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a prominent leader and anti-racism. government. if you. think you can. think why couldn't we. look. at a 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 also he went short stories in the early 1990 s. after the soviet union collapsed. to the usa to his father lloyd patterson's homeland to translate his work into english in our lives alone in a social apartment in washington. or mina. moon they. are going to go learn.
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valuable. through all do you. through their. baby boom. 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 he had a wife. 'd 3 sons career he was busy all the time his wife was. she was. fairly well known designer stage designer what he saw at that time and
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132. in stalin's moscow however strange it might sound now he saw lots of opportunity there. were tears. in the big guns and. more and since earl of the. old souls. that only got the. dog but at the gun the medication owns the amal so she. must fit in the studio going yeltsin's cooking us to our good. if skin to just said. i was a little dog let me know what you will probably i sure will mr shelby i mean you
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mustn't be decked out all over him still in a middling at. good older. at the start. of this. 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 little. lunch so this point. so did racism exist in the serbia to union.
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up with the mildest of my own what are you on your body and the i beat this level up what's a reporter or team up asked them 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 alone for skin to put the child in the toilet the kind of war the proud faces are way ethical ideas. by the demick no certainly no borders and nationalities. as america we caught up with the we don't have the fight scene the whole world
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needs to take the 55th. judgement. commentary crisis like this just intimate. we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing a way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is great the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. to. show the same wrong but all roles just don't hold. the old beliefs yet to shape out of this they come to educate and in gain strength because of the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for
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just the special itself will say yes that ice is mom so. that i knew us misspelt. in modern russia or it would be hard to find anyone who hasn't heard of you linda hunger she's worked on television since the late 1990 s. boosting several popular talk shows including russia's 1st t.v. show to discuss sex. the british and the spy that people should understand that after you have overstayed their show i would be is a. ups the wily is that see it the question of me abs the way. you. just especially. up up was a. good number 13 not that a dyleski must be. below look at the movie. when you cut i mean you know which the that nicko when you will get him in the course of. a 1000000 times his father george times moved to the soviet union in the
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1930 s. along with many other african-americans and settled in the banks interviewed republic where he helps develop cattle breeding on collective farms. that's where a 1000000 spent childhood some of us was and then there will india its nest in the well in the end good. news she knew that i will miss. the most good deal it's a lot of them i pity you must prove she just said she said stuart the. that. but that most of. it was being. doesn't that sound then the cd it's here allusion i get it i don't sneer that i see islam when medicare i see all sorts of things it is i need to get the bogus alleged in that i see isn't the total bill chest to. say this is it the bill but the. school will give it a golden you my your mama and. you stuck with it. when you
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will you probably but that will stun you i made a consummate might get all the needed of when you publish when you print a little but it's the service sales. they knew. there was racism throughout europe. where they work or london or paris or 3 q 3 and there. were doubts now when the experience you know mirrored. daily life for now 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 there were 2 separate corners. there would be separate water around. and they were usually of the 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. through various other places maybe it doesn't occur to them. the
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growing there will. be for 1000000 to peace there and there still is through. the winter. that i said in the studio i was because i still with doc still but the cop the police you know of them i was freezing and yet there was little doubt that sally is the only that still to be done deal it's got to be natural it started. 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 george tines his grandson yogi tynes was one of the few who went to the us in the early 1990 s. my approach to both the coil would be a terrific strain but it's your 1st so score so you should look down kirk the store some most are boy or soon are going to 0 in the. air he did say in the book. as you know just more than that i'm not sure but you could be forgiven that says
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consumers are born the. streets in the course of the bill and other than the you know you do a storm no but short enough to do the is that the mushroom you know read about them stored short of them or their stocks go see david through a door and keep going as more than a burger could last a 3 day but chose to lay a coke with the word cause what are they started screwing up so that they would be with him while they were going to tape that bill does that with that there would seem to be out there what are all the more you know with them yes that is it's the i don't know style so is it better to preach and get the new porno soaps nasturtium but doc watson i will do deal with it sure i do with michelle's words and theater with the tomato and support your story shows i. should think you know what i see the show so stood me gotta go out at. need the studio score let me take you and you folks in the gut this machine lean more should quit which it has no business sober to see them for i knew in tediously of us were going to be able to just post in
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there said think you know what a good job she gave me what i see him as sober. unlike you times his own 15000000 times moved to the usa and became an american citizen. she's lived there for the last 10 years. was she will. lose is a good idea. what should you do admit a serious and use the you know what i see often i mean the consequence to the janjaweed she's been in my. thought of with him discuss. us leave new war the old yes we should leave usual and use the d.v.d. in your store with that you see it would be nice to. have. a familiar gun. was there so that there may still. be in the sim you can use the windows themes or there's a no will through would rock teachers can you was was there. those.
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maze disputes you know because i were there says come so use it to show sport not. such a waste of my school's commenced which will probably. be as a corn show him a b. or c. could even out of milk resist both of us i know for to screw. with this here. company of cutlery gave a said name is a story of this president about the stomach of. the city of new business the stuff that's made out of them on both of them or that never really got into. motion unless i missed a compressor much from the cut of the period and you gore. only know most christians he's premier and it's a from seeing the us now on that ship are now going to do us must be we'll horseless wait mom we sit on the steps of the impersonal or corrupted skips who
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swears as much as you would such as that issue with not so what i see. why did i make up my mind to move to russia i wanted to 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. grabbed me and just throw me down on the ground. and i had
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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 officer is it was the worst experience of my life that i have not want to ever ever live again. because i grew up in a normal or orthodox family you know we're not gangsters. you know no one has a gun 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. you know in the great depression so rights movement it's the same thing just a different version. of what.
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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 the 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 no living in america. you're 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.
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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 going anywhere and the russians that i meet here 1st they're like ok you're a foreigner that i have when i see the question and then wait wait wait. the national at least you. know. the scene will just single. at the close of the deal with this way you. know. would you go into the worship with zeal upside down wish to be a little bit below. the cup with the with just 2 years. which is pretty vicious to get the bell of things i'm not. going to tell in your. political beliefs to do the skills and much of. what you
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buy. which is. why you. use it. new york. this is just published because the. i knew it watching got its out. the mom operationalize raising me as leisure will sit by in the more talk with my yeah. with this it's that low in an older. cyclists can style than. just leave it to him. with those. little is in the newbie and it's saying. in the me but at the minute i used to not sponsor discuss.
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