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you know what started my interest i should say black americans in the soviet union in the thirty's was finding this portrait even though i hadn't gone to grad school or 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 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 you know not washed but also up at all stuckey

a symbiotic. nice you're going to send us at the dock 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 american suffering from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that the lump a smug deal an idealization still remain. smug 3 of them dealers the issue and one by else a story of 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 agree or ask your groups who are workers who really do need to know to keep your ground grid. lulay a dwarf you know born to go or. you. go as much in

a significant rescue in the from the comfort of a career you grew up and know 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. my above was violet be at that exam that didn't look odd or you've got to pull them . off and i'm getting i need stand up by somebody in the addition of my a bob which is this is this was the other skit dealing deal with this. i need a gun so pulling a slick on the team i don't wish to win you thing at the world to ship. me

a slap 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 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 of. bullshits that i knew. or i see as much below it's incredibly that this isn't a new country being since 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 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. and he found a solution and. history 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 a an angry crowd and 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 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 but it hit all the right nerves at the time as explain credibly popular even the song. 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 were the crown and leader and anti-racism. government. and. if you.

think. you're right. i think michael that 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 a submarine and he became an also he went short stories in the early 1990 s. after the soviet union collapsed. jim patterson moved to the usa to his father. homeland to translate his walk into english he now lives alone in a social apartment in washington. still all me. but in the moon they are. going to go through. valiant low meaning with through all do real good through

go the. baby boom. now some reason to. believe they're. going to go 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 here. 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. fairly well known designer stage designer what he saw at that time and 1932 in stalin's moscow however strange it might sound now he saw lots of opportunity there.

a lot. of them big and little. more i.c.'s. and old souls. who had to. that but at the minute on the medication owns the miles oceanography mohawk must fill in the. yeltsin's cook in the studio are good little. eskin to just set it. on level dom stare look at what you will it will probably ice you mr shelby i mean you mustn't be decked out all over there though to middling at.

good old bird. at the. los angeles. nessa 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. this clip just a little. goes a. little above this beyond. me in the closing lunch so this. so did racism exist in the soviet union. see up with the mildest of my own what are you on your body and the i beat this level up what's a reporter would team up ask 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 i love their skin. but the church on the 20th was the kind of war the proud peace the way it was catholic the idea of. the demick no certainly no borders that is blighting to nationalities. as america we caught up with reality we don't have the facts seem the whole world needs to take the 55th 2. commentary crisis with christensen's times we can do better we should. everyone is contributing it's your own way but we also know that this crisis will

not go on forever the challenges the response has been massive so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. 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 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 and doing. the road to the american dream paved with did refuse it's this very idealized image of our needs americans look hostile the deaths that happen every single day this is

a history of the usa america. not just the russia was so cool so the us the rest is mum so. the tiniest misspelt . 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 the question especially because traditionally a lot of the folks here have overstayed their show he is a. up so why liza to get the question. of their beloved. just especially i took the choice. to get over there to look at

a deal less from. below look at the movie. which they then niko 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 swear in millions spent childhood some of us losing their billy d. its nest is unwilling to stay on the newest union that i list. the most the deal is loyal to them my 50 years of must prove. he says 2 of them got the. most of. it was being. that sound then this idiot year aleutian i get it i don't sneer that ice is known by medicare of things that is why

i need to get the bill gasol dustin that i see isn't the total bill chest. this can say is it the bill but the. disco will give it a golden you my your mama. 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 bring your little but it's the service sales. they knew. there was racism throughout europe. where they work or london or paris or if you read in there. were doubts now when the experience you know mirrored the. 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 for there were 2 separate corners that. there would be separate water. 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. through various other places maybe it doesn't occur to them. own there will be a season to be sniffing 1000000 to piece their nests. in the wood in new york that has been the studio i was because i stole the ducks the but the cut the party all of 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 be natural it's threatening. 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 of bitching about their poor would be a terrific strain to a creditor 1st i was called sales. clerk at the store some was

a boy or was not having his on the door. he did say in the book. in the east more than that i'm not sure but you could be forgiven that says consumers are born into. streets in the course of the born years or the year we do a storm no but sure enough to do is that the mushroom the yodel of them still short of them or their stocks customers are very good though and keep their eyes more than a burger cost to produce but shows till they are put the work was about they started screwing up so that they would be with him while you were there with the tapered little dust over that there would seem to doubt there were more you know with them yes that is it's the other nest also is it better to preach in the new porno soaps dark with stars that would deal with it your idea with michelle's words and theater with the tomato and supports your story shows i. should think you know what i see

the show so stood me gotta go out at. you can either stay you'll score but i need a cue and you got sent to get this machine lean or should quit that is my business so perfect it says i'm for it that i me in tediously of us we're going to be here but just close to me i said take you know what a good dog she gave me what i see in the sudan. unlike you don't you times his own to be a 1000000 times moved to the usa and became an american citizen. she's lived there for the last 10 years. still. loses is a good idea. what should you do admit a sears and use the you know what i see and i may be consequent to the janjaweed she's been in my. thought of which you can discuss bus 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 meet accounts of.

america. was there so that. she'll. be in the city if they need a witness themes or there's a now little need of doing good at the correct teachers in the bus was that. those doubles their value may dispute you know what is over in their system so use it to show sport not. such a waste of my school's commits to too but already there are those that see m.b.'s record showed him to be or she's good even out of milk resist drugs cause i know for to screw. with the. company of qatar agave they said name is a 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. go as much and i'm missing mr progressive enough from the cut of opinion that you gore.

only know most christians he's premier and it's a from seeing that it is known that you are now going to do us must be we'll horseless way mom we said no to the starts of thumpers or corrupted scripts 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. 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. grab me and just throw me down on the ground. and i had a bruise on my hand on my arms. 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 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 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 staring. 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 a rush 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

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 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 on the national at least that. point. of the scene will just go single. at the close of the deal with this way you. would build the doors of would seal up. the deal little could be over. with them which is

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the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interests or you see in this these techniques these 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 courtroom the cia disseminated from within the u.s. intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years and other victims say they still live with the consequences today. this is a speculative attack that iran must is making on the bed right so he's already

going to war at this stage the s.e.c. is already going to war and he's shown them to be in capture now he's gone to war with spit and say look i buy back my own stock i'm going to take your cheap money i'm going to buy it quite like michael saylor. and now 500 other that c.e.o.'s in the s. and p. 500 like you know it that's a darn good idea. though do you know if your book in your. book with the. machine the sort of the beach well storm of the lower street viewer us rule. when you go to the movie way of live that in the video. that. it is the soul of the. chip.

in the headlines this hour russian scientists developed the world's. deadly a virus strain 1st detected in the u.k. we hear from the head of the russian up. while developing the new test and systems we kept in mind that if we need to detect other strains we could do it in a short period of time. the blame game continues as china hits back at washington for questioning the findings at the w h o's coronavirus investigation and will. dock in the hotel room for 10 days this is the new reality for people returning to the u.k. from the hot spots as new quarantine rules come into force but questions remain over the effectiveness of the measure.