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what started my interest i should say and black americans in the soviet union in the thirty's was finding this portrait even though i had gone to grad school of 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 and meet in the thirty's. in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the city view to union and many
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of the descendants still live in russia. and name it the most because you know no washed up at all stuck yes you've got. one thing. and the russians they meet here the 1st they're 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 they lump us all of the deal an idealization still remain. smothered them below sea issue and one by else as. a 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 you to rear troops who are workers who really do need to know you keep your ground grit. lulay
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a dwarf you know born to go or. ruth go as much in a significant cristiana from the comfort of you you grew up 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. my above post well it be that it sounded like odd oil available to this couple often i make i need stand on what i'm up by somebody in the addition of my about bush which is much of this is i suppose. dealing deal with.
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i made a gun so pulling a slick on the team i don't wish to when you think it will boucher misled by me a ticket mixed race couples or such an issue in the united states i think rarely because of 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. on your bullshits that i knew. or i see as much below which incredibly this is a very new country being since it has a constitution they're actually. close to racial and gender
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and all this return to 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 who killed. keith graduated university as agriculturists there's no career moves there's no
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jobs and there's so much discrimination what he's supposed to do he went to a country where. key 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 the union in the 1930. 6 look at. cern james crabbers. james patterson became a national icon. famous circuits.
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the movie circus has an extraordinary story behind it i think it was said to be stalin's favorite. opening scene there's a a woman running from a an angry crowd and frightening 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.
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to various members of the audience policing him a lawyer by one of the languages of research. i mean it couldn't be more. saccharine and more propaganda stick by but it hit all the right nerves at the time as 16 credibly popular even the song was shit i. should have put on them that night i. 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
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leader and anti-racism. government. if you. think. you're. right think why couldn't we. all look. at a 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 'd 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 lloyd patterson's homeland to translate his work into english he now lives alone in a social apartment in washington. or mina. moon they. want to go all.
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valuable. through all do you. through their. baby boom. now so real do. they 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 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
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. in stalin's moscow however strange it might sound now he saw a lot of opportunity there. were tears. in the big guns of. what i'd see as earl of the. old souls but he says that only god. got bonded to the gun then that he can own steam also oceanography. must finish. yeltsin's cooking us to our good. it's going to get 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 though to middling it. some there was.
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good older. stuff. at the. los angeles. ines a 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 only believe the. biggest clue as to little. that all of this been. said not causing much so this point. so did racism exist in the soviet union. when the mildest of my own what are you on
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your nobody in the i've been this low up on what's your poison a pasta what happened after the iron curtain fell when the descendants of those african-americans could return to america their ancestral homeland. dark with sorrowful to deal with and why now 100 years later is russia again attracting african-americans for skin. but the charming twist was a kind of war for the proud pieces our way for us to go. one else seemed wrong. by all. just don't hold. any gold yet to shape out just to become adequate and engagement equals betrayal.
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when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. humanity has never seen such strange natural phenomena before giant creatures appearing in the peninsula. one after another. but never the will to break up again you've had us get you you put you know them does what we thought of it that he would be at. this one appeared in 2020. how often and where will new creases appear as i described how dangerous own day for humans from on my end is due to the 182021 russian scientists came quite close to working out what's going on. they built a full scale 3 d. model of the black hole.
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that's just the special it's all tools in the us that us his mom says. that i knew she must help those in modern russia or it would be hard to find anyone who hasn't heard of you linda 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 that question especially for showbiz tonight after the show you have everything you did or show i would be. up so widely is that so you get the. rush when i should. have been there to look
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at it dyleski. be a live look at the movie be. that nico when you are going in the course of. a 1000000 times his father george times moved to the center of 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 'd some of us losing them to believe it's the nest. the newest union that i've always. understood feel it's loyal to them my 50 years of musk rule. he said stuart the. that. was big. doesn't that sound then this city is here allusion i get it i don't sneer
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that i see is known by medicare i see all sorts of things it is by me to get the bill gasol dustin that i see is a lot of bull chess to. say this is it the bill with. the new. disco will give it a golden you my your mama can address the. one you will you probably but that will stun you i made a consummate my beer with you did that when you published when you bring your little but it's. very new. there was racism throughout europe. where they work or london or paris or if you read and there. were doubts now we're going to experience your. 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 through or you would only be allowed to go to certain stores there were accommodations for there were 2
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separate coralie. there would be separate water. and they were usually of the lower quality. 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 1000000 to push their nests. in the wind in europe that has been this team i was because i still would duck stop with the cup the port deal with them i was freezing rain at times lol but the sally is a story 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 from whence to be lance in the early
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1990 s. my of bitching about the coil would be a terrific strain but it's your 1st sos call so you should look dumb cooked of still some was a boy or was not a good news on the. air we did see in the dust bowl. mongers in the east more than that i'm not sure but you could be forgiven that says consumers are born that is. just a dumb typo college determine the course of the bill in the other than the you know you do a storm no but short enough to do the is that the mushroom you know read about them school children and more of your stocks go to see david 2 of those and kick them out there is broken are still to be judged but she was told a year ago quit the work was what they started screwing up so that they quit with what meanwhile you are going to take that bill does that with that they would soon be out of the what or the why do it with them yes that is its get them their style so is it better to preach and get them new porno soaps dark with stars that will do deal with it sure i do with michelle's words and theater but that's more than
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support you folks to show that as though it should take you know what i see the shows as did me good to go out at. some of those you can either stay you know score . i mean a q and you got sent the curtis machine me. though it is their business so parked it sees them. in tediously bus for one it will be yeah but just close them there said take you. mean what i see as sober. 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 you need to admit a series so you know what i see and i may be consequent to the janjaweed she's been in my. thought of what you can discuss. bus leave new war the old yes we should leave usual and use the d.v.d.
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in your store with that you see it would be nice to. have. a familiar gun. that is there so that. the some way it be in the city you can use the windows themes or there's a no will do wood at the correct teachers in your bus was that. those doubles the value maze disputes you know because i were in their system so use it to show sport no. more than 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. company of qatar agave they said name is a story of this president and i discovered. from the city of new business the stuff that's made out of them or both of them are never really going to. go with motion
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and the thing is to compress even much from the cut of the period and you gore. only know most christians he's premier and it's a from seeing that it is not on that ship are now going to do with us must be we'll horseless way mom. said no this starts with the impersonal or corrupted scripts who swears as much as you would such as that is so we don't so what i see. why did i make up my mind to move to russia i wanted to leave a country where i was spayed. nation racism. have we are all the racial problems for the night no not at all if you look at the recent events. it's all too frustratingly similar to. decades past. it was
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a situation i remember like 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 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 orthodox family you know we're not gangsters. you know no one has 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
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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 see. 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 you know living in america. you're traumatized and i was like talk i'm scared and then my
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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 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 we wait. the national at least you. know. the scene will. assemble. at the close of the deal with this way you. know. would you go into the worship with zeal of. the deal
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little he'd be able to. make up with them which is a better deal less which is pretty vicious to get the bell of things i'm not. going to tell him you're. really used to do the skills and much of. it you by. my you. use it. that is both new york and the other side as nationally as this is just published because the outskirts want to see out what i knew which in got its outside. the mom operationalize raising book i mean yes leisure will sit by in the more. with my yeah.
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with this it's the. second skin style than. just leave it to start. with us. little is in the movie and it's saying. on the bridge at the noon eastern us promise and discuss. anything. to see. him use this in the. civil war do. this or believe me it just says no no no don't. think it's. squeezed please.
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an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out an american town. we do everything in our power to protect the. water they escaping climate change poses the same threat right now alaska seems some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world we lost about 30 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. is fast and that means the river is 35 closer than how ben was 4 i don't think we're part of earth from. historically speaking the cold war was a great ideological confrontation western liberalism versus soviet communism
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according to joe biden. the great geopolitical struggle of our time is democracy versus autocracy for biden we are in another great ideological struggle but there is a difference the west particularly the united states is the only ideological actor . problem drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we've seen the very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids and invented america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers all the governments.
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