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eighty's 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. and name it the most because you know no rush for us though up at all stuckey assume. the sun there was at the end of the russians they 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 that they lump us all of the deal an idealization still remain. smug 3 of them dealers isn't really one by else.
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but 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 some of the or ask your rear troops who are workers who really do need to know to clear the ground grid. room a few go boom to cool. co as much in a significant cristiana 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 time went to russia. on possible worst times to go anywhere why not mean. when i come here.
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to. my above post well it be at that exam that i didn't like odd or you've got to pull them. 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 this choice. 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 all 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
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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 it's incredibly this isn't a new country being 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 agriculture in russia and he. got in a boat and then in the soviet union in 1930 s.
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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. he graduated a diversity as agriculturist 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 union in the 1930.
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6 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. as you see in the opening scene there's a a woman running from a an angry crowd threatening her and throwing rocks at her and at the bundle says and carrying is her black child. this german impresario
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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. should have that on them. was even a sort of
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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're right. i think when you look we. all look. 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 'd then 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 their. jim's father lloyd 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
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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 . in stalin's moscow however strange it might sound now he saw lots of opportunity there. are tears. lot. of the big guns the. more eyes he has girl of the. old souls. that only got the.
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duck but had to make it on the medication almost a mile so she. must finesse to do good yeltsin's cooking this to are good at. its skin to just say. i was never able doms let me know what you will probably ice you mr shelby i mean you mustn't be doctor nobody ever spoke to middling at. some. good old are. at the start. of this. ross the daughter of serviette actor robert ross was born and raised in russia and now lives with his 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
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spacek moscow. to little. lunch so this point. so did racism exist in the soviet union. up with the mildest of my own what are you on your body in the i've been this low up what's a reporter or 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. of the choice in the 20th was the kind of war that the proud of our way to go idea.
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they gave it to. my social class. people to poverty 1st. if you're born into a poor family 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. in years and is born into generational poverty. it's a tough tough fight every day to meet your needs and the needs of your family. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development the only posts really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.
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an entire village in alaska. 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 seems some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world we lost about 35 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. is fast and that means the river is 35 closer to the power than was 4 i don't think were part of the 1st for.
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just russia was so cool. 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 despite the pressure especially because the british are not enough to control everything good or show he is a. deal less from. the movie.
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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 farms that's where a 1000000 spent childhood. knew what she knew that i was. then my pretty you must prove. he said stuart the. that. was big. and then this year illusion i get it that i don't sneer that i says no when medicare. is by me to get the best and that i see is
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a lot of bull chess to. go well you gotta go. old the new my mama. put it living in 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 when you bring a little but it's a service to say. they knew that there was racism throughout europe. where they work or london or paris think you read in the very best work you know we're going to know what the experience together mirror of. 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 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
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were usually of the lower quality i 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 go in there will be a season to be sniffling meeting to push their nests you're. in the way to new york that has been the team i was because i still would stop with the cup the portfolio of the mio season without the slow silly is a story that still to be done to deal with the book to be actually started. 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 tynes was one of the few who went to the us in the early 1990 s. made pitched into both our poor would be a terrific strain to look prettier for so school so you should look down cook the
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store some was a boy or a lot of news or in the. area we could see in the store. you know just more than that i'm not sure but you could be forgiven that says come so usable in the. streets in the course of the bill when you're older than i you know we do a storm no but sure enough we do use that argue you know we do let them school children i'm aware of your stocks go see david through the door and keep them a burger can i still to do it but she was told a year ago quit the work was about they started screwing up so that they would be with me while you were there with the tape and build us there with that the woods into the woods or the war you know with them yes that is it's. right but i had to preach in new porno soaps not dark wood so i will do deal with it sure i do with michelle sweats and theater with the tomato and support shiftwork story shows i should think you know what i see the show so screwed me gotta go out but it was
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kick up the. need of the studio score and i need a q and you got sent because this machine lean more shouldn't do it is my business so perfect season record i knew in tediously bus was going to be able to just post in there so take you though to. me what i see them as super. unlike you don't you tines 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. still exists it was she will do all the lives that louis is good at. what you need to admit a series so you know what i see and i may be consequent to the janjaweed simply my . thought of the year with you blue sky. bus 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
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familiar gun. that was there so down there. are some way of. the witness themes of the days of no will to would the correct teachers in your bus was there. those doubles of on you may dispute you know because i were there says come so use it to show sport not. such a waste of my school's commenced with 2 but already there. is a corn show him a b. or c. could do that i don't know who has just published papers i know for to screw. with the. company it could sort of gave it a set name is a story of this president to write this article. from the city of new business the stuff that straight out of the mob wrote the cold war and that never really had to . go with nationalism is to compress to a mushroom the cut of the period and you gore.
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must critias he's premier and it's a from seeing that it is not on that ship or do us must be here we'll horseless way mom we said no this starts with our personal or purgatives 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 'd 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
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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 the 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 that the police were there to help me why aren't they helping me. it's history that's repeated insult over and over and over again and it hasn't been fixed my great grandfather george time staring. you know in the great depression so rights movement it's the same thing just
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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're 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
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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 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. the scene will. speak at the toast of the iliad to deal with this way you. know. would you go into the worship with zeal absolutely.
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to be able to. pick up with them which is a better deal less my which was pretty vicious in that of the of things i'm not. going to. be a least idiot skills and much of. it you thought. about. why you. are using. this book in new york. because. i knew. the mom operationalize raising me as leisure will sit by in the more talk about my yeah. with this it's that no in an older. scientists can study than. just leave it to
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thing you know became the bottleneck is a. movement and you know full well if you see cooperation there is a girlfriend to some mental food we call to do division we said action on this lead before you go. and socially then. at least those 2 by the skin salute in between so you. know those who say the only. problem drugs has come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we seem very sharp increase in the number of people
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humanity has never seen such strange natural phenomena before coming to this appearing in the peninsula. one after another. was never the good news if you have to take your fear for you. he warned me of. this one appeared in 2020. how often and where will new creatures. how dangerous are they for humans oh my you know and in 2021 russian scientists came quite close to working out what's going on. they build a full scale 3 d. model of the black hole.
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in some of the stories that shaped this week's news a stark admission of failures on the handling of the covert crosshairs spy the french president as the country imposes a 3rd national locked up. fears of a nursing exodus in the u.k. a poll reveals one in 4 n.h.s. workers are more likely to quit now about 2020 but many sought exhaustion from the pandemic we speak to one british nurse. we've had to use it needs to be increased quite a bit. because the wages have been criticized so much. and i feel the government need to help increase the white. repose of trump off social media continues with facebook to lead to.
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