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 then tell the victims say they still live with the consequences today. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us in the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. what started my interest i should say black americans in the soviet union in the thirty's was finding this portrait even though i didn't go to grad school of 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. with the name at the most because you know on the west but also up at all stuckey a symbiotic. one being the sun the allies at which i loved up and. the rest of 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 acting up a smug that he'll not be a losing still remain a. smutty then be a lucy issue and one by else of. the 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 or ask your troops who are workers who really do need to know you keep your ground grid. lulay a dwarf you know born to gold. coast motion a significant crest on the from the cup that will be your glory and now almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george time went to russia. on probably the worst times to go anywhere why not mean.

when i come here. to. my above while it be at that exam that i'm not like odd oil you've got to pull them . off and i'm getting i need stand on what i'm up by somebody in the addition of my about bush which is this is this. 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 boucher misled by 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 get up with almost any children meeting is not. 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. codes to racial and gender and all different kinds of discrimination my grandfather 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 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 because. he graduated in a versity as agriculturists there's no career moves there's no jobs and there's so much discrimination what do you suppose 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 seem. to need history

for some of the african-americans who went to school reunion in the 1930 s. . around grade 6 you're looking at lord patterson and fern james patterson. james patterson on a national icon. famous film circuit. 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 and angry crowd threatening her and throwing rocks at her and realize that 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 a risk was. 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.

was even a sort of a defacto anthem of the soviet union i. i i i. i i i it's definitely a fear to say that those who appeared you. were the crown and leader and anti-racism. government. if you. think. you're ugly. why couldn't we. overlook. 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 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 luck into english now lives alone in a social apartment in washington. all mina. but in the moon they. are. to go through. valiant. with through will do real good through to the. baby boom. now some reason to. believe there. could be good it's 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 that he would not have in the united states had a wife. 'd 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 in stalin's moscow however strange it might sound now he saw us of opportunity there. would be. a lot. of them big and little. more i.c.'s earl of the.

old souls. who had. that but it didn't mythic. owns the miles. the mustin the. yeltsin's cooking the student are good at it and. it's going to just set it. on the little dogs there let me know what you will be very nice you mr shelby i mean to go makes you mustn't be decked out all over them are stored in middling at the. worn. good 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. he played for the reserve team of one of the country's leading football clubs spacek moscow could then you believe. this clip just a little a small. little of. me in the causal lunch service. so did racism exist in the service of the union. with the mildest of my own what are you on your body in the ib at this level promotes reporter 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 and why now 100 years later is russia again attracting african-americans was in. the choice in the 20th with the kind of war the

proud faces our way from the catholic idea. but the pandemic knows to you know blood is just blood into nationalities. in. the summer if we don't have a turkey we don't have the facts in the whole world needs to be. judged as commentary prices please mr times we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is critical to response has

been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. though do you know if your book in your. book with the machine in the center of the beach will storm the lower street view of our school. when you go to the movie way of the it in the video it appears with an umbrella. that still has the soul of the disease and i'm with you to keep that from.

strangers human beings to change nature so i think you know the rules are there because what was lost there is it was going to make people uneasy. why should we force the boy scientists because nature. try you're supposed to be in your brain why don't we just choose that. that's just the special itself you'll say yes but i says mom says course i use the tiniest misspelt those in modern russia or it would be hard to find anyone who hasn't heard of fueling the hunger she's worked on television since the late 1990 s. posting several popular talk shows including russia's 1st t.v. show to discuss sex. the bit of

a simple spot that most people should understand not enough of a fold of every t.v. to show i would be is say. is that see it the question. just especially. but there too not that it's in less. hooliganism won't. be a live look at the movie. that nico when you were going in the course of. a 1000000 times his father george times moved to the sort of huge union in the 930 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 sampras was and then there will india it's the. newest union that imo is. the most good deal it's

a lot of them i pity you must prove. he said stuart the. that. was big here doesn't that sound then this city is here illusion i get it that i don't sneer that i see is why medicare saves it this is why i need to get the bogus alleged in that i see is on the total bill chest of the source of the bill so 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 with media that when you publish when you print a little but it's. very new. there was racism throughout your. work or london or peer review 3 and there. were doubts now we're going to 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 through or you would only be allowed to go to certain stores there were common. there would be separate correlates for example of why 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. there his other places maybe it doesn't occur to them. to comb their will to cease to be sniffing 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 police let them i was freezing yet there was little doubt that sally is a toy that still to be done deal it's got to be natural to start.

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 you'll be times is one of the few who went to the us in the early 1990 s. may have pitched in a boat or coil would be a terrific strain but it's your 1st sos course so you should look down cooked of still some most a boy or some not having his will in the. it's in the dust bowl. in the east more than that i'm going to break you could be forgiven that says consumers are born to. college determine the course of the boy in your eyes or the you know you do a story nobody short enough to do the is that the mushroom you know who do it the most will short of them or their stock sky survey every 2 of those and keep them of those that are close to 3 dots but chose to put the word cause what are they studied that so that they would be would mean while you were going to tape it build

us to with that they would soon be out of the woods or the more you know with them yes that is it's yeah i'm just also required to preach in new porno soaps not store it on but dark wood so i will do deal with it sure i do with michelle sweats and t. . what the tomato and supports your story shows i. should think you would want to see the show sisted me gotta go out to kick up the rich you can either style your score let me take you and you folks in the car this machine lean. to it is their business so parked it says i'm. in tediously plus we're going to be yeah but just 1st on your show to queue. up she gave me what i see on the silver. 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 deal still still exists it was shit will live that loses is good at. what you need to admit.

you know what i see and i may be consequent to the janjaweed she's been in my. thought of what you can discuss. us leave new war the old yes we should leave usual to be viewed in your store what they see is one beast. of. america. was there so that was real. they knew the winners themes of these and now little too would at the rock teachers in the bus was there. those doubles their value in these disputes you know because over there says come so use it to show sport not. such a waste of my school's commenced which will probably into the record show him to be or that she's could do with out of milk resist drugs for as i know for to school.

with the. company of cutlery gave a said name is a story of this president and i discovered. from the city of new business stuff that straight out of the mall both of them are never really going to. go as my friend of mine used to compress even much from the cut of the predicament you go or . what. most christians he's put me and it's a from seeing the us now on that ship are now going to do with us must be we'll horseless way mom we said no no starts with their own personal or correctives 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 space and scream a 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 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 officers 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 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 with my great grandfather george time staring. you know in the great depression sorites 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 saying.

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 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 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. the national at least.

the scene will just go single. at the top of the deal with this way you. know. would you go to the doors or would seal up so you can see a little sandwich and a deal it could be only. a couple of them with just 2 years a better deal less might do which was pretty vicious to get the bell of things on the shuttle are always to. be a good idea lisa do the skills and much of. it you buy. this book in new york. because. i knew.

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as the covies vaccine is being rolled out is absolutely necessary to take stock of the economic devastation left in the pandemics wage which is the fate of the working middle class will income inequality continue to decrease when government intervention change the economy and finally does the phrase the new normal. 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 with bill it was my savings i have nothing i have nothing that is now i don't authorize aloof or resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this pass. in the aisle of doing is. the road to the american dream paved with good refugees it's this very idealized image of our america needs americans look pasta the deaths that happen every single day this is a modern history of the u.s.a. america on r.t. . join me every 1st day on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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