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it was finding this portrait even though i had gone to grad school with 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 city of utah union and many of their descendants still live in russia. and the name at the. no no rush but also up at all stuckey assume. the sun your wife's at the top and. the rest of the day 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
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american suffering from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that they love us love the deal and i'd be a losing still remain. smothered then be a lucy issue and one by else. but by doing. so they decided to leave everything behind and start a new life in a country about which they knew almost nothing at all some of the are asking to rear troops who are workers who really do need to know to keep your ground grid. move a few go boom to gold. coast motion a significant cristiana 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. and probably the worst time to go anywhere why not mean.
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when i come here. my above post well it be at that exxon that i didn't like od oil you've got to hold them to this couple often i'm getting i need stand up by somebody in the addition of my about bush which isn't much of this is a. big deal they deal with this. i need a gun so pulling a slick on the team i don't wish to win it was thing at the boucher misled 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
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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 channel and meeting. of. bullshits that i knew. or i see is much below which incredibly this is a very new country. says it has a constitution they're actually. close 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
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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. he graduated in a versity 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. 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
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for some of the african-americans who went to school reunion in the 1930. 6 look at. cern james patterson. 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. as you see in the opening scene there's a woman running from
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a an angry crowd and frightening 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. 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.
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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 appeared yunior were the crown and leader and anti-racism. government. and. if you. think. you're right. i think michael and 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
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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. moon a. valuable . through their. baby boom the. now so real do. they believe they're. going to patterson like many other african-americans moved to the u.s.s.r.
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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. '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 lots of opportunity there. were tears. lot i didn't move the big guns the.
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earl of the. old souls. that only got the. dog but at the minute on the medication. the must finish. yeltsin's could last article. if skin to just said. i was a little dog stand let me know what you will probably i sure will mr shelby i mean you mustn't be decked out all over him are still in middling at. cinema is. still so good a holder. at the start. of this. ines are ross the daughter of serbia director robert ross was born and raised in russia and now lives with her son james near moscow in
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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 the new billy cook food loop a bit don't steal this clip just a little. goes under those heels a little of this been. me to not cause lunch so this point. so did racism exist in this sort of union. when the mildest of my own what are you one year in the i've been this low up on what's reported 14 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 you don't know to put the child in the 20th place
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of the kind of war the proud peace the way you discuss to go. this is a speculative attack that iran must is making on the bed right so he's already going to war at this time the s.e.c. is already going to war and he's shown them to be. captured now he's gone to war with spit and sand like a buy back my own stock i'm going to take your cheap money you know buy it quite like michael sailors do and now 500 other c.e.o.'s in the s. and p. 500 go like you know it that's a darn good idea. the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in 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
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psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation psychological torture the cia disseminated within the us intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years meant other victims say they still live with the consequences today. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. direct. what is truth what is faith.
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in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows. just the special itself will see us that us islam says course i use the tiniest misspelt 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. posting some. popular talk shows including russia's 1st t.v. show to discuss next. the british spy that president bush the british prime minister you have everything going to show he is a. deal
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less from. below at the movie. that nico in you will. find his father george times moved to serve you to union in the 930 s. along with many other african-americans and settled in the back soviet republic where he helps develop cattle breeding on collective. that's where emillio spent childhood. knew if she knew that i was. there might be you must prove. he said stuart the.
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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 i wish i knew. my dear old media that when you published when you . really knew. there was racism to. wow your. but if they work or london or paris think you read in the very best hotel were that's now what the experience you know mirrored that. daily life for 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
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separate correlates for example of white it would be separate water fountains. and they will 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 'd. 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 you. know when you express it in the studio i was because i still would duck stop with the cup the portfolio of them i was freezing you know to slow the sally is a story 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 and his grandson tynes was one of the few who went to the u.s. in the early 990 s.
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my approach to both the coil would get over it but slid to a perimeter 1st so of course i used to cook the fish sure some was a boy or a small not again his role in the. area we did see in the dust bowl. in the east more than that i'm not sure but you could be forgiven that says consumers are born to. college between the course of the bow and arrows or the you know we do a story short enough to do is that that you. read the word postal short of the word your stocks say david. didn't keep. us to produce but shows to leo put the word cause what they studied so that they would be with him while you were going to tape it build us there with the woods and the woods 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 in new porno soaps dark with stars that will do deal with it sure i do with michelle and theater
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with the tomato and support your story shows i should think you would want to see the show so screwed me gotta go out but it was kick up the rich need of the star you know score i mean a q. and you got sent to get this machine lean or should quit that is their business so perk to see them. in tediously of us who are going to be able to just post an ascetic you know to. me what i see them as so they are. unlike you don't you tines his own 15000000 times moved to the usa and became an american citizen. she's lived there for the last 10 years. was she. loses is a good idea. what should you do admit a series so you know what i see and i may be consequent to the janjaweed she's been in my. thought of with you discuss. us leave new war the old yes we
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should leave usual with the d.v.d. in your store with that you see it would be nice to meet accounts of. those there's a. real. b. in this if you can use the windows themes of these and now little to would rock teachers in your bus was that. those doubles the value may have disputes you know what is over in your system so use a push from the sport not. such a waste of my school's commits to 2 but i would even though that your b.s. record shows him to be or she's could do with out of milk resist drugs as i know for to screw. with the. company of qatar agave they said in the. story of this president and i discovered. from the city of new business stuff that's neither of them or both of them are never really going to
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. 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 pretty mean and it's a from c. in the us non that you are now but i do us must be we'll horseless way mom we said no no starts with thumpers a lot of troops kids who 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.
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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 a bruise on my hand crews on my arms. i thought they were going to kill me. that they were going to shoot me and it was by the officer is 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 russian orthodox family you know we're not gangsters. you know no one has a gun and we don't have any hoodies at that the police were there to help me why aren't they helping me. it's history that's repeated over and over and over again
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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. 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 is deeply traumatized and i was like talk i'm scared and then
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my friend just moved here from america and she's russian he's like really just 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 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 wait we wait for the national at least. the scene will just go single. at the close of the deal who just wait.
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in the. woody building to worship with seal up so you can see a little sandwich and be a little bit below it. because with the with just 2 years still a better deal less money 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 buy. which is. why you. use it. new york as national useless it just published because the outskirts. i knew which in got its outside. mom operationalize raising me as leisure will sit by in the more talk with my yeah.
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with this it's that no in an older. cyclists can stand than. just leave it to them start. with those. little is in the movie and it's saying. on the bridge at the noon eastern us promise and discuss. and if not. to see. the civil news with the. sob or do. this or believe me it's just no not all of them. but it's. so it's crystal clear.
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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 it was my field it was my savings i have nothing i have nothing there's no like i don't try 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 all america needs americans look pasta the deaths that happen every single day this is a modern history of the usa america on r
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calmly to choose to not. leap to. china for a spot of the us off the washington question in the fall endings of a world health organization probe into the polar regions of the corona virus. whether you care you still in locked out new rules the people traveling in from the red list countries to quarantine for 10 days in selected hotels concerns remain over plans for all of the how the plans will be implemented. at a conservative justice harassed and associate a she was a black clubs about a protest to get her take on what life's like for a reporter in a divided america. i feel that being a conservative media is. now very physically threatening to journalists.
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