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we are segregated only by social class. people also in poverty by 1st. if you're born into a poor family ah you're born into a minority family if you're born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people die on average 15 years old if you're born into generational poverty. it's awfully tough fight every day she is to meet your needs and the needs of your family. started my interest i should say black americans in the soviet union in the thirty's was finding. even though i had to go to grad school for the master's
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degree in russian literature i speak russian and i had lived over there in the late eighties finding this 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 fifty's several 100 african-americans moved to pursue a view to union and many of their descendants still live in russia. no no washed up at. least one being. a russian that i meet here the 1st day like hey you're part of that i want to be questioned 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 all of the deal and i'd be
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a losing still remain. smothered them be a losing 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 after rear troops who are workers who are in the know to keep your ground grit. lulay it through if you go boom to go on. you. know as much in a significant pressing on the from the comfort of you as you grew up and now almost a 100 years later the history is repeating itself my great grandfather george times went to russia. on possible worst times to go anywhere why not mean. when i come here.
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my above was well it be at that except that i didn't like odd oil available to this couple off and i'm getting i need sun on my ma by somebody in the addition of my a bob which isn't much of this is i suppose. dealing deal with. i made it gun so pulling a slick on the team i don't wish to win you thing it'll bhutia 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
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impossible for many whites to accept that it was illegal in many states but you all my. know what benefit the most on your channel and meeting. of. the new bullshits that i knew. or i see is much below which in particular this isn't a new country. since it has a constitution they're actually. close 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
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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 a diversity as agriculturists there's no career moves there's no jobs and there's so much discrimination what he's supposed to deal 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. he found a solution and. history
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for some of the african-americans who went to school reunion in the united 30. 6 looking at. cern james crabbers. 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
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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.
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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. if you. think you can. 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 and he became an also he went short stories in the early 1990 s.
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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 their. baby boom the. now so real 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
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a family here. 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 his wife with. she was. 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 opportunity there. are tears. and lure. in the big guns a little. more and since earl of the.
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old souls. it's not only got the. dog but it the middle and maybe can own steam also she. must fit in the studio going yeltsin's cooking us to our good. it's going to just say. i was a little dog instead. of what you will be probably a she will be special big i mean you mustn't be decked out all over him still in a middling at. cinema is. good. at this. ines our ross the daughter of servia director robert ross was born and raised in russia and now lives with her son james near moscow in a big country house. james was
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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 spartak moscow could only believe. the clippers to little. then all of this been. said. so did racism exist in the serviette the union. with the mildest of my helmet a one year nobody in the ib at this level but what's a reporter up asked him 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 to put the child in the toilet the kind of war the proud faces our way it was catholic.
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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 then escaping climate change poses the same threat right now alaska does seem some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world we lost about 30 feet. 35 feet of
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ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. it is fast and that means the river is $35.00 closer to an hour than was the year of the war i think were a part of america 1st from across. the river. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. this in you know became the bottleneck refusal of politics if you will movement and
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you know for what you see there is a girlfriend who should lead to war through equal to the division of the selection on this lead before you know you go out to larry birns and socially stand. up at least those so-called peace with the palestinians all against you between so you know what about me when you know those who say only you know. just the special tools that i says. that. 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 sex. the british the spy that was 1st introduced to not enough of
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a fold you have everything you did or show i would be. especially i try to. look at the movie. that nico when you. are. 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 republic where he helps develop cattle breeding on collective. that's where a 1000000 spent childhood. new with. the deal is that there might be you must prove.
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he says throughout the. big. illusion of it that i don't see here that i see is in the way medicare. is by me to get the best and that i see is a lot of bull chose to. go to all the new my mom. i just really. put it leaning that i see is my own you will probably but that will stun you i made it cuts me i did what you did there when you published your brain a little but it's obvious to say. they knew there was racism throughout europe. but if they work or london or paris think you read in the very best you know we're going to know what the experience you know mirrored the.
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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 black 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 has other places maybe it doesn't occur to them. to go in their will to cease to be sniffing 1000000 to peace in their stores through. the wood in europe that has been this team i was because i still would duck stop with the cup the police you know of them i was freezing you know to slow about that sally is a story that still to be done to deal with the book to get to work.
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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 tines was one of the few who went to the us in the early 1990 s. may have pitched in a boat or queer would be a terrific street to a commuter 1st so of course i used to cook the fish sure some was a boy for us all not having his will in the. area we did see in the dust bowl. in the. just more than that i'm not sure but you could be forgiven that says consumers are born into. college determine the course of the boy in the other than you know you do a store or short enough to do the use that the mushroom you know you do want them still short of them or their stocks suited to a dollar and keep more than a burger cost to produce but chose to lay a quid to work because what they started screwing up so that they would be with
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them while you were going to tape and build us there with that there would seem to doubt there were more you know with them yes that is its style so is it better to preach in new porno soaps not dark with stars would deal with it sure i do with michelle sweats and theater with a tomato and support shift work story shows i should think you know what i see the show so stood me gotta go out at. some of those q can you just tell your score let me take you when you got sent that got this machine leaned more sure than i could to which it has no business so perfect season record that i knew in tediously bus was going to be yeah but just close to me i said take you know what a good dog she gave me what i see that i'm super. unlike you don't you times he's on to the 1000000 times moved to the usa and became an american citizen she's lived there for the last 10 years. still exists it was she it will do all the lives that lewis is good at. what you need to admit. you know what i
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see and i may be consequent to the janjaweed she's been in my. thought of with you discuss. us leave new war they're all just leave usual and use the d.v.d. in your store with that you see it would be nice to. have. a familiar gun. was there so that. they knew the winners themes of these are now little too would at the correct teachers in your bus was that. those doubles the 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 2 but i would hear that your b.s. record showed him to be or she's could even out of milk resist rubberstamp as i know for to screw. with the. company of qatar
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agave they said there was a story of this president to write this article. for the city of new business just straight out of them or both of them are and never really wanted to. go with my friend of mr christie one much from the cut of the 3 of you gore. must critias he's premier and it's a from seeing that it is not on that ship are now going to do us must be we'll horseless way mom we said no to the stuff of thumpers a lot of troops kids 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
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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 on my arm. i thought they were going to kill me. that they were going to shoot me and it was by because peace in the office series 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
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one has a gun and we don't have any hoodies i thought the police were there 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. 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 because in russia the matter what time it is i can walk outside and i'm say.
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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 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 read the more i'm here the more i see that i'm not going anywhere 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.
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drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we see me very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids and invaded 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
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