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i have nothing to lose no i don't authorize alou for resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this house. annoying the doing is. the road to the american dream paved with did refuse it's this very idealized image of this older america needs americans look pos to the deaths that happen every single day this is a history of the usa my america. started my interest i should say and black americans in the soviet union in the thirty's was finding this portrait even though i had gone to grad school for 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
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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 their descendants still live in russia. and name it the most because they know no rush but also up at all stuck in a symbiotic. sun your bios at the top of the russian 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. they mash it all. back home black american suffering from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that they lump us what the deal an idealization still remain. smutty of them dealers the issue and one by else of.
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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 are asking to rear troops who were too stupid to know keep your ground grid. lulay a few go boom to go on. you. know as much in a significant crystal meth from the comfort of you as you grew up 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.
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my above as well it be a big something that will lick od oil available them to the couple often i'm getting i need some of them up by somebody in the issuing of my about bush which is this is i suppose. dealing deal with. i need a gun so pulling a slick on the team i don't wish to win you posting it will boucher misled me a 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
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meeting. of all started. when you bullshits that i knew. or i see as much below which in particular this is a very new country. since it has a constitution there actually. codes to racial and gender and all different kinds of discrimination my grandfather george tines. 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
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was also a period in which the soviet government was during a massive recruitment people with turkey quote. 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. 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. he found a solution and. history. looking at. cern james crabbers.
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james patterson. from national. famous circuits. the movie circus has an extraordinary story behind it i think it was said to be stalin's favorite. 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
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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. 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 16 credibly popular even the song should have. that on them. was even a sort of a defacto anthem of the soviet union. it's
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definitely fear to say that those who appeared yunior were the crown and leader and anti-racism. government. if you. think. you're. right think michael that we. all know. that 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 then he became an also he went 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 he now lives alone in a social apartment in washington. or mina.
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moon they. want to go. there live. with through. through 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 he had a wife. 'd 3 sons career he was busy all the time his wife with.
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she was. fairly well known designer stations what he saw at that time and 132. in stalin's moscow however strange it might sound now he saw a loss of opportunity there. were tears. and lure. of the big guns that. would see as girl of the gaiety an old souls. that only got the. dog but at the gun to make you own steam also she. must finisterre as you go yeltsin's cooking us to our good. if skin to get said.
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i was a little dog let me know what you will probably i sure will mr shelby i mean you mustn't be decked out all over him though to middling it. some of the. good old are. at the new. 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.
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girl was still. there all of this. will be on me to not cause much service. so did racism exist in the serbia to union. with the mildest of my own what are you on your body in 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 to put the child in the toilet with the kind of wall the proud face of our way in the thick of ideas. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation
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snow dares thinks. we dare to ask. just russia was so cool. that. in modern russia or it would be hard to find anyone who hasn't heard of yelena 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 not a car full of everything good or show he is a. good
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. deal less from. the movie. that nico when you go to. a 1000000 times his father george times moved to the soviet union in the 1930 s. along with many other african-americans and settled in the republic where he helps develop cattle breeding on collective. that's where a 1000000 spent childhood. we knew was that i was. lord of them i pity you must prove. he said stuart the. that.
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was big. and then this year illusion of it that i don't see here that i see is no where near to. is by me to get the best in that i see is and will chance to. go will you go to go. old the new my mama. put it leaving him i see is my own you will probably but that will stun you i made it cuts me i did what you did there when you published in your brain a little but its service sales. they knew there was racism throughout europe. where do they work or london or paris think you read in the very best hotel grounds now where the experience you know mirrored the. daily life for an african-american in the 30s was. you know frustrating there would
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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 white it would be separate water fountains. 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. for his other places maybe it doesn't occur to them. to comb their will to cease to be cynically military and to peace in their status through. the wood in europe that has been the steam i was because i still would stop with the cup the polio of them i was freezing you know to slow the silly is a story that still to be done deal it's got to be natural to start. 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
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his grandson yogi tynes was one of the few who went to the us in the early 1990 s. where pitched in a boat or korea would be a terrific strain to a competitor 1st so score so you should look down cooked of your some most a boy or assume not of his will on the. we could see in the dust bowl. because you know. more than that i'm going to break you could be forgiven that says come so usable in the. streets in the course of the bill when you're older than i you know you do a storm no but sure enough to do is that the mushroom you know read about them still short and i'm aware of your stocks customs are very good though and keep. still pretty much but chose to lay a quid to work cause what out they started screwing up so that they would be with me while you were going to tape it bulldust to with that would seem to doubt the what or the more you know with them yes that is it's you know them their style so
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is it better to preach in new porno soaps dark with stars that would deal with it sure i do with michelle sweats and theater with the tomato and supports of perks to the show because i should think you know who it was so that i see the show so stood me gotta go out at. some of those you can either stay you know score let me take you and you folks into got this machine lean or should quit that is my business so back to see them. i mean you in tediously of us who are going to be yeah but just post in there said take you know a good deal of. me what i see that i'm super. unlike you don't you tines his own g.p. a 1000000 times moved to the usa and became an american citizen she's lived there for the last 10 years deal still exists it was she it will do all the lives that loses is good and. what you need to do of them is a series so you know what i see and i may be consequent to the janjaweed she's been
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in my. thought of which you can 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. they knew the windows themes of these are now little too would the truck teachers in your bus was there. those doubles of on you may dispute you know because they were in their system so use it to show sport not. such a waste of my school's commenced which will probably into the record show him a b. or c. could even out of milk resist rubberstamp as i know for to screw. with the. company of qatar agave they said name is a story of this president and that the stomach of. the city of new business is
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stuff that's for either of them or both of them or that never really got into. motion of mr christie one much from the cut of the predicament you go or. only know most christians he's premier and it's a from seeing that it is not on that ship are now going to do us must be we'll horseless way mom we said no to the steps of their own personal or corrupted scripts who swears as much as you would such as that is so we don't see what i see . why did i make up my mind to move to russia i wanted to leave a country where i was space and scream a 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.
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decades past. 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 through so my arms. i thought they were going to kill me. that they were going to shoot me and it was by the officers it was the worst experience of my life that i have to 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
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helping me. and it's history that's repeated over and over and over again and it hasn't been fixed my great grandfather george times. you know in the great depression so rights 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 because in russia the matter what time it is i can walk outside and i'm say. we're standing outside the metro area and with the police officers too close ups is walking towards us and my heart's beating fast like. why because no living in
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america is deeply 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 want to hear it's a piece of me and the more i read the more i'm here the more i see that i'm not going anywhere the russians that i meet here 1st they're like ok you're a foreigner that i have when i speak russian and then we wait for the national at least. the scene will just go single. at the top of the deal with this way you.
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know. would you go into the worship with zeal of. the deal little good deal. with the with just 2 years. which was pretty vicious to get the bell of things i'm not. going to. be a good idea least to the skills and much of. it you buy. which is. why you. use it. in new york. because. i knew. mom operationalize reason they'll call me a slash will sit by in the more talk. my yeah.
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with this it's that nolan and. scientists can start. live with him start name with us. move those in the new bin it's saying niggas in the moon but at the minute i used to not sponsor the skulls. in the. end to see. the 1st civil mused it's not. so i will do. this or believe me it's just no no no don't. think it's a. sudden screw stopping. seemed
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their own interest or you see in this these techniques is the state devising methods to him to essentially destroy the personality of an individual. by scientific means this is how one doctor's theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation psychological court for the cia disseminated within the us intelligence community and worldwide among allies for the next 30 years and other victims say they still live with the consequences today.
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imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century what are the chapters called gun violence school shootings homelessness 1st it was my job then it was my fear was that it was my savings i have nothing i have nothing that is not like i don't trust aloof or resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this house. in oil of doing is. the road to the american dream paved with dead refugees it's this very idealized image of. americans look pasta the deaths that happen every single day this is a modern history of the usa america monarchy.
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