tv Documentary RT February 15, 2021 6:30pm-7:00pm EST
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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 of the descendants still live in russia. and name it the most because they know no rush but also up at all stuckey a symbiotic. 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 all of the deal and i'd be
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a losing still remain. smug 3 of them dealers the issue and one by else the store 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. from a very or ask your troops who are workers who really do need to know to clear the ground grid. to move a few you're going to go on. you. know as much in a significant christiane a from the comfort of you you grew up and now almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went to russia. and probably the worst time to go anywhere why not mean. when i come here.
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to. my above post by libya that exxon that will lick od oil you've got to pull them. and i'm getting i need stand on what i'm up by somebody in the addition of my about bush which is much of this is i suppose. dealing deal with. i made a gun so pulling a slick on the team i don't wish to win you posting it to want to show. misled by me a ticket mixed race couples or such an issue in the united states i think rarely because of 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
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my. know what the etiquette almost on your children meeting is not. so much of a thought or. bullshits that i knew. or i see as much below which in particular this isn't 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
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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. he graduated university as agriculturists 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. history for some of the african-americans who went to school reunion in the 1930.
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6 look at. cern james crabbers and. james patterson on a national icon. famous circuit. 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
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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 yelling is passed. 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 explained credibly popular even the song. that on the. air. was even a sort of
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a defacto anthem of the soviet union. it's definitely fear to say that those who appeared yunior were the crown and leader and anti-racism. government. and. if you. think. you're right. i think michael that we. all 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 'd then he became an also he went short stories in the early 1990 s.
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after the soviet union collapsed. to the usa to his father. who learned to translate his work into english in our lives alone in a social apartment in washington. or mina. moon may i. want to go. there live. through the real. clue go there. 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
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a family here he 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. she was. fairly well known designer stage designer 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. of loss i didn't move the big guns of. what i'd see as earl of the. old souls but he says that only god.
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got bonded to the gun that maybe can own steam also she. must finisterre as you go yeltsin's cooking us to our good. it's going to get said. 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 them i. will still go to 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.
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he played for the reserve team of one of the country's leading football clubs spacek moscow could anybody come up with those 2 biggest clue posts a little a small. little of this beyond. me and not cause lunch so this point. so did racism exist in the soviet union. when the mildest of my own but i knew i knew the lady in the ib and they slow up what's with order 14 i passed them what happened after the iron curtain fell when the descendants of those african-americans could return to america their ancestral homeland get them an important. to deal with and why now 100 years later is russia again attracting african-americans for skin. but the choice in the 20th was the kind of war the proud face of the way the catholic idea of. crushing
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relations got a reality check last week russia's foreign minister sergey glover of read the riot act to the bloc also washington never ceases to lecture the world about democracy and the rule of law to any u.s. . burd do you wrote your book in europe do. so mostly from blue. book with the machine sort of the beach or a storm of the lower street view of our school. when you go to the movie way of ligo it in the video it appears with an umbrella. that in still chill it is the soul of the disease and i'm with you to keep calm.
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the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person if there is. no dares thinks. we dare to ask. not just the special itself will say yes that us is mum so skills i use that on us 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.
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show to discuss sex. the bit of a simple spot that people should understand i'm not a control of everything going to show i repeat is 6 up so widely is that so you get the question. you. mean yeah cestus pressure. please enough to include some of those to note that it's in less from the hooliganism or. below at the movie. because the couple you cut i mean you know which the that nico when you were going in the course of. a 1000000 times his father george times moved to the sort of 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 farms that swear in millions spent on each child hood. and that they will idiots the nest. as they
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knew it she knew that i was. the most the deal is loyal to them my 50 year must prove. he said stuart the. that. was big here was the sound then this idiot here allusion i get it that i don't sneer that ice is known by medical of same as it is by me to get the bogus alerts and that i see a total bill chest of a source in the system i will say this is it the bill with. the new disco will give it a gold the new my mama can. see is when you will you probably but that will stun you i made a cuts in my beer with media that when you publish when you prenatally it will but it says so viscous sales. they knew. there was racism throughout europe. where they work or london or paris or if you read and there.
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were doubts now what the experience your. daily life for an 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 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. there his other places maybe it doesn't occur to them . to comb their will but i ceased to be sniffing meaning to push their nests. in the wood in the uk that has been the team i was because i still would duck stop with the cup the polio in them i was freezing yet i'm slow about that sally is
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a story 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 tines was one of the few who went to the us in the early 1990 s. my pitch in a boat the coil would be a terrific strain and it's your 1st sos call so you should look down cooked of your some most a boy or assumed out of the news on the. air we did see in the dust bowl. in the east more than that i'm not sure but you could be forgiven that says come so usable in the. streets and the course of the boy in the other than the you know we do a story nobody short enough to do the is that the mushroom you know read about them school children and what their stocks go to say david to a boat and keep. still to do it but chose to put the word cause what they started
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screwing up there so that the queer would be with him while you were going to take that bill duster with that they would soon be out of the woods or the boy did with them yes that is it's the other nest also is it better to preach in new porno soaps nice to them but dark with sizeable to deal with. it sure i do with michelle and theater with the tomato and support your story shows though i should think you would have seen the show so stood me gotta go out at the bar with kick up the rich people need to destroy your score but i mean a q when you sent the curtis machine lean. to it is my business so perfect season record. in tediously plus we're going to be able to just post on your show to q. do you mean what i see. unlike you don't you tines his own to be 1000000 times moved to the usa and became an american citizen she's lived there for the last 10 years deal still still exists it was shit will live that lewis is good at.
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what you need to admit a series so you know what i see and i may be consequent to the janjaweed simply my . thought of what you can discuss bus leave new war they're all just leave usual and use the d.v.d. in your store what they see it would be nice to. have. a familiar gun. that was there so that in them in jail for someone to be in this city you can use the windows themes the days are now little too would like teachers in your bus was there. those doubles of on you may dispute you know because i were in their system so use a push from the sport not. such a waste of my school's commenced to tool but i will be there. as a corn show him a b. or c. cook i did not have milk resist rubberstamp as i know for to school. with
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the. company of cutlery gave it a set name is that so i knew the story of this president to write this article. for the city of new business just if it's for either of them or both of them are in that 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 played minutes of from seeing that it is not on that ship but i do us. we'll horseless wait mom we sit on the steps of thumpers the local activist groups who swears as much as you would such as that issue we would also want to 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
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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 like 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 crews on my arm. i thought they were going to kill me. that they were going to shoot me and it was by because he's in the series it was the worst experience of my life that i have to not want to ever ever live again.
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because i grew up in a normal or orthodox family you know we're not gangsters. you know no one has 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. 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 see.
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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 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 opposite 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 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. the national at
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least. the scene will just single. at the top of the deal with this way you. know. would you go into the worship would seal up. the deal little he'd be able to. pick up with them which is a better deal less my which is pretty vicious to get the bell of things i'm not. really used to the skills and much of. it you buy. which is. why you. use it. in new york. because. i knew.
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mom operationalize raising me as leisure will sit by in the more talk about my yeah . with this it's that no not all and. just leave it to him. with those. little is in the new bin it's saying needed to numb him but at the noon eastern us promise and discuss. in the. end to see. the 1st stimulus the. small model that they supposedly mean it's just no not old.
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it's a. science crystal think. this is a speculative attack that iran must is making on the fan right so he's already going to war with the staff the f.c.c. is already going to war and he's shown them to be. captured now he's gone to war with the fed and sound like a buy back my own stock i'm going to take your cheap money i'm going to buy it quite like michael sailors do and now 500 other c.e.o.'s in the s. and p.
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500 like you know it that's a darn good idea. 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 and it was my fear would lose my savings i have nothing i have nothing to lose now i don't authorize aloof or resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this house. the law in the doing is. the road to the american dream paved with did refer. to this very idealized image of all america needs americans look pasta the deaths that happen every single day this is a modern history of the usa america monarchy.
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crushes even relations got a reality check last week russia's foreign minister said again lover of read the riot act to the bloc also washington it never ceases to lecture the moon about democracy and the rule of law our bill into you works. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation or community. are you going the right way or are you being led. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallowness.
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the u.s. off to washington to question the findings of the world health organization probe into the origin of the corona virus. with the u.k. still new rules people traveling in from. countries to quarantine for 10 days. but concerns remain over the plans. to protest. a divided america i feel that being conservative is very physically threatening to journalists.
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