what started my interest i should say black americans in the soviet union in the thirty's was finding this portrait even though i had gone 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 and meet in the thirty's. in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the city of you to union and many of the descendants still live in russia. and the name at the mosque and

on the west but also up a stocky a symbiotic. and. the rest of the day meet here the 1st day like hey you're more into that i want to be question and then wait wait wait. they mash it all. back home black american suffered from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that they love us what the deal an idealization still remain. smothered them 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 african-americans who are workers who are in the no 2 puritans around grid 3. moon a few you're going to go or. you. go as much in

a as a mythical christiane a from the debris of 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. when i come here. to. my above post well it be at that exciting that will look odd or you've got to pull them. off and i'm getting i need stand on my ma by somebody in the addition of my about bush which isn't much of this is i suppose. dealing deal with this choice not

need a gun so pulling a slick on the team i don't wish to win you put this thing at the world to shilpa misled by 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 meeting is not. so much of a thought or. bullshits that i knew. below which incredibly 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 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. 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 s. . look at. cern james crabbers. james patterson became a national icon. famous circuits.

the movies circus has an extraordinary story behind it i think it was said to be stalin's favorite. 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. was even a sort of a defacto anthem of the soviet union. it's definitely fear to say that those who appeared yunior with a prominent leader and anti-racism. government.

if you. think. you're. right think michael 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 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 they. go.

through all the real good through their. baby boom. now so really 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 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 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

a loss of opportunity there. were tears. of loss i didn't move they've begun to. move on since early the. old souls. that only god. got but at the minute on the medication owns the miles. you must fit in the studio going yeltsin's cooking us to our good. it's going to just said. i was a little dog let me know what you will be very nice you will mr shelby i mean you mustn't be decked out all over him though to middling it. some device or.

good old or. at the start was just. 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 then the belief of. this clip just a little. a. little above this. will be our way to not cause a lunch so this point. so did racism exist in the state of your union. when you my list of my own what are you on your lady on the i beat this level up

what's reporter what 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 for skin. but the choice in the 20th was the kind of war the proud faces our way it's got to go. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. 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 the 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 the victims say they still live with the consequences today. not just the special itself will say yes that us is mom so so so use that on us

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 1980 s. posting several popular talk shows including russia's 1st t.v. show to discuss sex. the british and the spy the question is this he was going to stand on africa so he had everything going to show i hope he is a. up so widely is that see it the question. you. just especially. up up was a. good number there to look at that it dyleski. below look at the movie. when you cut i mean you know which the that nicko when you will get i mean nasty mess. it was. a 1000000 times his father george times moved to serve 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 childhood. in that they believe the it's the nest of the willing to stay on the newest union that i've always felt the most the deal is loyal to them i pity you must prove. he says 2 of them got the. most of. it was big here. that's and then this city is here allusion i get it that i don't see here the ice is known by medical of things it is by me to get the bogus alleged in that i see isn't the total bill chest to. say this is it the bill with. the new. school will give it a golden you my your mama. when you will you probably but i wish i knew i made a consummate my dear one you did that when you published when you put in 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 the group. were going to know what the experience you know mirrored the. daily life are now 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 for there would be separate quarterly. there would be separate water around. 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. so there has other places maybe it doesn't occur to them.

to comb their will to cease to be sniffing 1000000 to piece their nests. in the way to new york that has been the studio i was because i still would duck still but the cut the border you know and the my trees and yet there is little doubt that sally is a story that still to be done deal it's got 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 you'll be times is one of the few who went to the u.s. in the early 990 s. my approach to both the coil would be a terrific strain but it's your 1st sos call so you should look down kirk that sure some was a boy but i was not a good news on the. air we did see in the dust bowl. in the east more than that i'm not sure break you could be forgiven that says courses are born the. streets in the course of the bow in your eyes are the to do

a storm no but short enough to do the is that the mushroom the yogi do it i'm still short of time or a door stuck sky survey through a door and kick there is more than a burger can i still pretty much blown up but chose to lay a coke with the word cause what are they studied so that they would be with me while you were going to tape it little dust over that the woods and the woods or the boy did with them yes that is right so you know them just also is it better to preach and get them new porno soaps not stirred them but doc watson i would do it it sure i do with michelle's food and theater with the tomato and support you folks to show because i should think you know what i see the show so stood me gotta go out at. you can either stay you know score let me take you and you folks into got this machine lean more with which it has no business so back to seize them or put the. yeah but just 1st of all i said to cue.

me what i see. unlike you want you tines his own to humiliate tines move to the usa and became an american citizen she's lived there for the last 10 years. that louis is good at. what you need to do of them is sears and use the you know what i see often i mean the concept with the janjaweed she's been in my. thought of what you can discover. us 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. have. a familiar gun sicko daughter it was there so down there. are some way of. the witness themes that there is a no will do would at the teachers in the bus was that. those doubles their value in ways disputes 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 the record show him to be or she's could do that would most resist drugs cause i know for to screw. with the. company of cutlery gave it a set name is a story of this president of my stomach i'm. from the city of new business the stuff that's made out of them or both of them are and never really got into. motion unless i missed a compressor much from the cut of the period and you gore. only know most christians he's premier and it's a from seeing the us now on that ship are now going to do us must be we'll horseless way mom we sit on the steps of the impersonal 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 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. 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 arm. 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 orthodox family you know we're not gangsters. you know no one has a gun 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 communication 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 say. we're standing outside the metro area and 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 just 5 minutes later that same police opera 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. scene will. speak at the close of the deal with this way you. know. would you go into the worship with zeal of. a little bit below. with the with just a better deal less which was pretty vicious to get the bell of things i'm not. going to. be a least idiot skills and much of. what you buy.

which is. why you. of new york. i knew. the mom operationalize raising me a slash will sit by in the morgue talk about my yeah. with this it's that no in an older. cyclists can steiner's than. just live with him struggling with. literals in the nude in it saying you can see in on him but at the noon eastern us promise and discuss.

anything. to see. the civil news with the. small ball do. this or believe me did just says no no no don't. think it's a. sudden screw stopping. the good news any truth issue see in the last 4 years it was the fact you know we had this transformational president with really grand aspirations

that were broadly supported by the american people in the most populous present in the country's recent history were matched by the appointments that were made in the administration i think maybe with his background in business he might have underestimated the importance of personality but having worked in the white house in the executive branch of government so much rests on personnel . emergent thinking up a future textbook on the early years of the 21st century what are the chapters called gun violence school shootings. first it was my jaw it was my bill it was my savings i have nothing i have nothing that is not. aloof or resources i look for jobs i look for everything i can to make this house. in oil

and doing this. the road to the american dream paved with did refute. this very idealized image. makes americans look pasta the deaths that happen every single day this is a history of the usa and america. says this is really the beginning of the changing of the guard in our now handing the baton off to china as the number one economy in the 21st century the numbers are there the statistics are there they. here or there the relationship with russia and iran is there. and their relationship all over africa there. were more politicized than ever or more polarized than ever the 21st century when

speed is measured in megabytes per 2nd. meeting him at a tronic mail electronic money electronic media infinite possibilities for exchanging information i mean the. freedom of speech and social media bents censorship of double standards who should judge what can be said online. the internet audience snow totals almost 4500000000 almost all of them are active social network users but one wrong move on their pages deleted digital. you don't exist anymore. not who runs the show on the web how can anyone stand up to the tech giants if even the heads of state face the threat of being banned is there any limits to hold that. belief.

but i will have reasonable way. in the stories that shape the week moscow warns that brussels is politicizing the fight against the pandemic as the kremlin hits back at controversial comments from the head of the european union casting doubt back seat. also this hour australians launched a campaign to boycott facebook after it bans news posts in the country to tech giants made the move over a proposed law to make social networks pay for news content but the issue up for debate should profit from someone else's work without giving them some look good news probably facebook groups but they're utterly thrown into the merit of i think this whole social media i guess ecosystem is really spun out of control in terms of how it is monetizing.