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 in the in the thirty's. in the 1920 s. and thirty's several 100 african-americans moved to the city view to union and many of the descendants still live in russia. and name it the most because you know no rush but also up a stock yes you've got. some new ways at this and. the rest of the day meet here the 1st day like hey you're part of that i want to speak

russian and then wait wait wait. they mash it all. back home black american suffering from racism and a complete lack of prospects. is that the lump a smile deal an idealization still remain. smothered them below sea 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 asking to rear troops who are workers who really do need to know to be prudent around grit. moulay a groove few go boom to go on the coast machine a significant christian the 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. on possible worst times to go anywhere why not mean. when i come here. my above was well it be at that exxon that lick od oil available to this couple off and i'm getting i need some of them up by somebody in the addition of my about bush which isn't much of this is i suppose. dealing deal with them i need a gun so pulling a slick on them. because it's good don't wish to win you posting at the boucher misled by me 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 benefit the most on your children meeting. of. bullshits that i knew. or i see as much below which incredibly this is a very 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 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 doing a massive recruitment people with turkey called. key graduated a diversity as agriculturists there's no career moves there's no jobs and there's so much discrimination what are you 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 are workers union in the 1930. 6 looking at. cern james patterson. 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 and 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 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 it 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 you. were the crown and leader and anti-racism. government. if you. think. you're right. i think michael

that we should 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 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. are going to go. there live. through all do you. through because their. baby boom. now so real do. they believe they're.

going to paterson 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 he had a wife. as. 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 opportunity there.

were tears. in the big guns of. what i'd see as earl of the. old souls but he says that only got to. that but at the gun time he can only. must fit in the studio going yeltsin's cooking us to our good. it's going to get said. i was never able doms let me know what you will probably i sure will mr shelby i mean you mustn't be doctor nobody ever spoke to middling at. some of the. good older. stuff. at the start was us.

ines or 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 spartak moscow could anybody come. to little. then all of this. will be on me in the course lunch said this point. so did racism exist in the serviette union. see up with a my list of my own what are you on your body and the i beat this level up what's a reporter 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 charming twist with the kind of war the proud face and the way the catholic. religion you know became the bottleneck is a valid excuse you were moved with and you know you see there is a girlfriend who should lead or fall through equal to a division we said action on this lead before you go out to their students and socially east's then copy at least go so it will be stripped of all this your soul is going to your between so you. know those who say only. problem drugs has come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every

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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 back soviet 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. he said stuart the. big. illusion of it that i don't see here that i see.

it is by me to get the best and that i see is a. chance to. go well you've got to go. old and new my mama. just out there was this but it living in that i see is my own you will you probably but that washed on you i made it cuts me i did what you did there when you published when you bring a little but it's a service sales. they knew that there was racism throughout europe. but if they work or london or paris think you read in the very best. we're going to know what the experience you know mirrored the. 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 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. through various other places maybe it doesn't occur to them. to go in their will to cease to be sniffing 1000000 to push their status through. the wood in europe that has been the steam i was cause i still would stop with the cup the poor you know of them i was freezing you know to slow the silly is a story that still to be done deal it's 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 tines was one of the few who went to the us in the early 1990 s. bitching about the queer would be a terrific bitch to

a critter 1st so of course i used to cook the fish sure some was our boy or us will not have been his or in the. area we did see in the dust bowl. you know you just more than that i'm not sure but you could be forgiven that says consoles are born into. streets and 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 and i'm aware of your stocks go see david through the door and keep going i was more than a burger can i still to do it but chose to lay a coke with the word cause it out they started screwing up so that i would be with them while you were going to take that little dust up with the woods into the woods or the idea with them yes that is it's the i don't know 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 wanted to model them and support shift work story shows i should think you know what i see the show so screwed me gotta go out at parties

kick up the little squeak needed to stay you know score a let me take you when you got sent they got this machine lean more shouldn't go quick to it is their business so back to see them for i knew you in tediously of us were going to be able to just close them there said take you know to. me what i see them as super. unlike you don't you times his own to be a 1000000 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 sears and use the you know what i see and i mean the consequence to you would simply be my. thought of what you can discuss bus leave new war the old yes we should leave usual with the d.v.d. in your store with that you see it would be nice to. have. a

familiar gun. there's a. real. b. in this scene you can use the windows themes of these and now little through wood at the truck teachers in your bus was that. those doubles of on you may dispute 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. be as a corn show him a b. or a she's could do with out of milk resist rubberstamp as i know for to school. with the. company of cutlery gave it a set name is a story of this president and i discovered. from the city of new business stuff that's neither of them or both of them are never really going to. go as much and i'm missing mr progressive enough 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 known that you 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. 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 through so my arms. i thought they were going to kill me. that they were going to shoot me and it was by because peace in the series 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 that 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 communication 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 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 2 cars officers 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 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 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 see the question and then wait wait wait. the national at least. thing is set the scene will just single. at the close of the deal with this way you. know. would you go into the worship with seal of

seal put a sandwich and do a little good deal. with them which is 2 years a better deal less money which is pretty vicious to get the bell of things i'm not . going to. be a good idea lesa discs should. you buy. which is. why you. use it. new york. this is just published because the old school. i knew which in got its out. mom operationalize raising me as leisure will sit by in the more talk. my yeah.

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a not so happy easter in europe some states expand covert curbs while others announce the partial closure of vaccine centers. also with millions of americans losing their jobs and small businesses shattered during the pandemic it's revealed that some of the country's biggest companies paid no federal taxes last year. and a new hollywood movie the mauritanian depicts the story of the man considered the most tortured detainee at guantanamo bay r.t. talks to the prisoners lawyer and the director of the film. there was no evidence of julius still to this day means no evidence tool against one told me he was an innocent man there was always pressure to get.