tv Documentary RT February 15, 2021 10:30am-11:00am EST
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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 pursuit of union and many of their descendants still live in russia. and name it the most because you know no washed up at. least one. of the russians that i meet here the 1st day like hey you're part of that i want to ask the question and then wait wait wait. the mashup that also. back home black americans suffering from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that they lump us what the deal an idealization still remain. smoke 3 of them dealers the issue and one by else. but by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in
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a country about which they knew almost nothing at all some of the are asking to rear troops who were too stupid to know you keep your ground grid. lulay a dwarf you go boom to gold. coast motion 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. my above should be at that exxon that will lick od oil available
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to this couple off and i'm getting i need stand up by somebody in the addition of my about bush which is 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 when you think it'll boucher misled me a ticket mixed race couples or such an issue in the united states i think for her really 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 is not. so much of a thought or. on your bullshits that i knew. or i see as much
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below which in particular this is a very new country. says it has a 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 russian 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
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a massive recruitment people with turkey who killed. keith 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. and he found a solution and. history for some of the african-americans who went to school the union in the 1930. 6 look at. cern james patterson.
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james patterson became a national icon. famous 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 a woman running from a an angry crowd and frightening 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
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a black child and of course the soviet response is so 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. was even a sort of a defacto anthem of the soviet union. i. i i. i i. it's definitely fear to say that those who appeared you. were the crown and leader and
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anti-racism. government. and i just. think. you're. right michel 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 'd then he became an author he wrote short stories in the early 1990 s. after the soviet union collapsed jim pattison moved to the usa to his father. who learned to translate his work into english now lives alone in a social. in washington. zeal will mean no. moon they. are going to go on. to.
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valuable well meaning through all do real good through the. baby boom. now through real do. they believe there. could be with moving. 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. travelled in circles in the soviet union and moscow there he would not have in the united states you had a wife. 3 sons. he was busy all the time his wife was. she was a fairly well known designer stations what he saw at that time and 1932
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in stalin's moscow however the stranger might sound now he saw lots of opportunity there. would be. a lot i didn't live there are big and little. more i.c.'s earl of the. old souls. it's a start i'm going to. that but at the gun time it. owns the miles. the mustin the. yeltsin's cook in the studio are deliberately. eskin to just set it. out of the little dogs they're looking at which it will be very nice she will mr shelby i mean economics you mustn't be decked out all over
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them are stored in middling at. good holder. at the. n.s.a. a 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. with all of this. said this point.
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so did racism exist in the serviette the union. with the mildest of my own what are you on your body on the i beat this level up what's a reporter what 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 it and why now 100 years later is russia again attracting african-americans for skin to put the child in the toilet the kind of war the proud face as our way to go.
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out this day comes to advocate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. she still looks for common ground. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century what are the chapters called gun violence school shootings. first it was my job it was my field bill it was my savings i have nothing i have nothing there's 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 as. americans look hostile the deaths that happen every single day this is
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a history of the usa america. not just the school russia was so cool so yes that us is mum so. that i knew she must help those 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. hosting several popular talk shows including russia's 1st t.v. show to discuss sex. the british and the spy that preciousness people should reduce the national coach told to have everything go to show he is a. washed. especially. the 2. boys a. good number 13 not that
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a dyleski must be. below look at the movie. that nico when you were going in the course of. 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 banks of youth 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 of. the newest union that i will miss. the most and zealots loyal to them my 50 years must prove. he said stuart the. demand was big. doesn't it that sound then this city is here allusion i get it that i don't see here the ice is known by medicare i see all sorts of things that is why
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i need to get the bogus alleged in that i see isn't the total bill chest to. say this is it the bill with. the new. go will give it a golden you my your mama and. when you will you probably but that will stun you i made a consummate my dear one you did that when you published when you print a little but it says service sales. they knew. there was racism throughout europe. where they work or london or paris or if you read in the group there. were doubts now when the experience you know mirrored the. daily life for now african-american in the 30s 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 there would be separate currently. there would be separate water around.
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and they were usually of the lower quality i thought about this many times i don't even i don't know why more african-americans didn't. try to go. to various other places maybe it doesn't occur to them. own there will be a season to be sniff a 1000000 to piece their nests. in the wood in new york that has been the studio i was because i still would duck stop with the cup the police yell at them i was freezing and yet there is little doubt that sally is a toy that still to be done deal it's good to me that you will start. when the sylvia 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 you'll get times is one of the few who went to the us in the early 1990 s. my bitching about our poor would be a terrific strain to
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a creditor 1st so score so you should look down cooked of sure some was a boy or was not a good news on the. air and it's in the book. just more than that i'm not sure but you could be forgiven that says consumers are born into. the streets in the course of the bill and other than the you know you do a store or no but short enough to do the is that the mushroom you know you do want them stored short of them or their stocks go see david through a door and keep going as more than a burger cost to produce but chose to lay a quid to work because what they started screwing up so that they would be with him while you were there with the tapered little dust over that would similar to what are all the more you know with them yes that is it's you know them their style so is it better to preach and get them new porno soaps dark with stars that would deal with it your idea 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
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out but it was kick up the. name of the star you know score well i mean a q and you got sent that got this machine lean more towards it is their business so better to see them go for it i mean in tediously of us we're going to be yeah but just 1st on your set take you know to. me what i see him as super. unlike you don't you times he's on to the 1000000 times moved to the usa and became an american citizen. she's lived there for the last 10 years. was she will do that loses 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 you discuss. us leave new war the old yes we should leave usual to be viewed in your store what they see is one beast
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. of. america. was there so that. they knew the witness themes of these and now little through would rock teachers can you was was that. those doubles of on you may dispute you know because over there says come so use it to show sport not. so much always do you know which will so must cause commenced which will probably. be as a corn show him a b. or a she's good even out of milk resist drugs as i know for to screw. with the. company of cutlery gave a said name is a story of this president and i discovered. from the city of new business the stuff that's made out of them or both of them are never really going to have to. go with machine and the thing is to compress even much from the cut of the predicament you
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go or. only know most christians he's premier and it's a from seeing that it is now on that ship are now going to do us must be we'll horse this way mom we sit down there starts with their own personal or corrupted skips who swears as much as you would such as that issue would also receive. why did i make up my mind to move to russia i wanted to leave a country where i would stay. 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. a situation i remember it was
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yesterday i x. 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 a bruise on my hand to some my arm. i thought they were going to kill me. that they were going to shoot me and it was by the. series it was the worst experience of my life that i do 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 we don't have any hoodies at the police officer to help me why aren't they 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 time spearing. you know in the great
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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. and in russia in 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 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
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later that same police opera's 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 going anywhere and 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 you. know. all. of the scene will just go single speed. of elian to deal with this way you. know. would you build the doors of would seal up. a
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little bit below. because with the with just 2 years. which is pretty vicious in that of the elephants i'm not. going to tell in your. political beliefs to do the skills and much of. what you buy. which is. why you. use it. new york. this is just published because the. i knew it watching got its out. mom operationalize raising me as leisure in the more talk about my yeah.
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democracy and the rule of law our bill in the us. 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 it was my fear bill it was my savings i have nothing 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 good refugees it's this very idealized image of our america makes americans look hostile the deaths that happen every single day this is a history of the usa by america on our t.v. .
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