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you know no one. needs one being a senior. russian that i meet here the 1st day like hey you're part of that when i speak russian and then. we 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 real an idealization still remain. as my 3 of them dealers is really one by else. 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 some of the or ask your rear troops who are workers who are really in the know to keep your ground grit. to move a few you're going to go or. you. go as much in
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a significant cristiana from the comfort of you and your glory now almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went to russia. on possibly the worst time to go anywhere why not mean. when i come here. my above post by libya that examined the lick od oil available them to the couple often i make i need stand on what i'm up by somebody in the addition of my a bob which is this is this was the other skit dealing deal with. i need a gun so pulling
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a slick on the team i don't wish to win you thing at the world to ship. me a slap me ticket mixed race couples or such an issue in the united states i think rarely 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 money is not. so much of a thought or. bullshits that i knew. or i see as much below which incredibly this is a very new country being said to have the constitution there actually. close to racial and gender and all different kinds of discrimination my grandfather
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george titan's. 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 a massive recruitment people with turkey called. key 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
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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 for some of the african-americans who went to school reunion in the 1930. 6 look at. cern james crabbers and. james patterson on a national icon. famous film circuit.
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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 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 yearly is passed. to various members of the audience policing him a lawyer by one of the languages of research.
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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 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.
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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. 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 they. want to go. there live. with through all do you. through
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their. baby boom the. now so real do. they believe we're there yet. 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 had a wife. 'd 3 sons career he was busy all the time as wife with. she was a. 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
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opportunity there. are tears. and lure. in the big guns a. good chance girl of the. old souls but he says that only god. got bonded to the gun the medication. must fit in the studio going yeltsin's cooking us to our good. if skin to just 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 are still to middling at. some of them a. good soldier.
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at the start was furious. 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. to a little. goes a. little above this field. to not cause lunch so this point. so did racism exist in the sort of u.t. union. see up with the mildest of my own what are you on your body in the ib at this level but what's
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a reporter or team 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 i love your skin. but the church on the 20th was the kind of the crowd that distance away from the catholic idea. by the demick no certainly no borders just by nationalities. as americans we caught up with reality we don't have the facts in the whole world we stick to. judgment 2 commentary crisis that is christensen's times we can do better we should.
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everyone is contributing each of their own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been massive so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interests what you see in this these techniques is the state devising methods to him to essentially destroy personality of an individual. by scientific. 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 torture of the cia disseminated within the us intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years and how
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just russia was so cool so the u.s. that i says. 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 1980 s. boosting several popular talk shows including russia's 1st t.v. show to discuss. the british spy that people shouldn't. have received their show he is a. good. deal less. look at the movie.
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that nico when you will. find 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. knew what she knew that i was. there my baby you must. be said stuart the. big. illusion of it that i don't see here that i see is what miracle of things it is why. need to get the bill go so that in that i see isn't that a bill chest of the source of the sistema bill so this will say is it the bill with
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double that i see is a. disco we live in a golden you my your mama and. you stuck with. him i see is my own you will probably but that will stun you i made a consummate my dear one you did that when you published when you preen a little but it is service sales. they knew that there was racism throughout europe. where they work or london or appear to think you read in the very best. grounds now when they experience your mirror. 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 there would be separate correlates to example of why it would be separate water brown. and they were usually of the lower quality i thought about this many times i don't even i
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don't know why more african americans didn't. try to go 'd. through various other places maybe it doesn't occur to them. to go in there were with us he's not sufficiently familiar in to push their nationals through. the wood in europe that has been this team i was because i still would stop with the cup the polio of them i was freezing in at the slow. is a story that still to be done to deal with it 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 george tines 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 predator 1st so i was. so you should look down kirk the store some was a boy or some not of news on the. we did see in the dust bowl.
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because you know just more than that i'm not sure but you could be forgiven that says come so usable in the. streets in the course of the bill and other than you know you do a storm no but sure enough to do is that the mushroom you know read about them stored short of them or their stocks cousins who gave it to adore and keep. still to do it but she was told a year ago put the word cause what are they started screwing up so that they would be with me while you were going to take that little dust up with that the woods into the woods are all the more you know with them yes that is it's the new style so is it better to preach in new porno soaps nice to them but dark with sizeable to deal with it sure i do with michele so it's interior with the tomato and supports you spoke story shows i should think you know what i see the show sustained me gotta go out at. some of those keep need to stay you know score let me take you
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when you got sent the get this machine lean with that is my business so back to see them. i knew you in tediously of us were going to be able to just post a message take you. to good dog show me what i see evidence of that. unlike you don't you times his own 15000000 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 and 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 with the d.v.d. and you're still with that you see it would be east. of. america. was there so that they may still. be in this city if they knew
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the winners themes of these and now little too would rock teachers can you was was that. those doubles of on you may dispute you know because i were in their system so use it to show sport not. such a waste of my school's commenced which will probably. be as a corn show him a b. or c. could even out of milk resist drugs as i know for to screw. with the sear. company of qatar agave they said in the story of this president about this article. from the city of new business stuff that's neither of them or both of them are never really going to. go with national news and history press even much from that of the 3 of you gore. only know most christians he's premier and it's
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a from seeing that it is not on that show or now but to do us must be we'll horseless way mom we said no no starts with the person or purpose of scouts 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.
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grabbed 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 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 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 spearing so that communication you know in the great depression sorites movement it's the same thing just a different version. of what.
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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 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're 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
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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 wait we wait for the national at least you. know. the scene will just go single. at the close of the deal with this way you. know. would you build the doors of would seal upside down which deal little feet below it. with them which is a better deal less which is pretty vicious to get of the elephants on the shuttle
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when i was told some seemed wrong. but all told just don't hold. the world to get to shape out this day to come out again and again tread because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground the. do you list your book in your post to. the mosley. funny. book with the new machine some of the beach will still move lower street view or us rule. when you go to the movie way of lingo to move video it appears. that it
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still has the soul of the knees and how many to choose to tom. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. in a day or thinks. we dare to ask. this is a speculative attack that iran must is banking on the fed right so he's already going to war to stop the s.e.c. he's already gone to war and he's shown them to be and capture now he's gone to war
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with fed and sand like a buy back my own stock i'm going to take your cheap money i'm going to buy it quite like michael saylor stock and now 500 other c.e.o.'s in the s. and p. 500 a like you know what that's a darn good idea. imagine picking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century what are the chapters cold gun violence school shooting. first it was my job and it was my fear will lose 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. in oil i'm doing this on the road to the american dream paved with good refugees it's this very idealized image of our america makes americans look past the
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debts that happen every single day this is a history of the usa america on our t.v. . headlines this hour russian scientists develop the world's 1st test of the deadly a strain of the coronavirus that many countries to close their borders we hear from the head of the russian nepal. 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 also this stuck in a hotel room for 10 days that's the new reality facing people returning to the u.k. from covert hotspots as new quarantine rooms come into force and a new turn in minneapolis after a push to defund the police the city gives room for some and millions of dollars to tackle a spike in violent crime.
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