me started my interest, i should say in black americans in the soviet union in the thirty's was finding this portrait, even though i'm going to grad school and the master's degree in russian literature . i speak russian and i had lived over there in the late 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 1920s insanity is several 100 african americans moved to the soviet union. and many of their descendants still live in russia. you know, no rush but us though. yes. you choose to nice things. richard lum. the issue of the russians that i meet here, they 1st like pay your partner,

that when i speak russian and then wait, wait, wait, the nation that was go back home. black american, something from racism, and a complete lack of prospects. a just the exact amount of material. and i'd be losing sure to migrate them be ation one by one foot by 2 inches. 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 african americans who went to soviet union in 1930, found great success monet, though if you don't, you heard me go with much less than that. you go. and now almost a 100 years later, a history is repeating itself. my great grandfather george times,

went to russia. party the worst time to go anywhere. why not mean when i come here? ah, ah. my above school. well, it sounds odd. do school oil is hold them just pull up and i me to send them what i'm but i'm showing you my bubble skin, which is more should it is close to the others could be really dealership is short . i made a gun, some bullying slicks on my bumps, kavinski malicious when you processing it to shiver, 70th me to get mixed race, couple of horse. that's an issue in the united states. i think primarily because of,

of the jim crow laws of that, that intense hatred of african americans. so this notion that you can mix was, was absolutely impossible for many whites to accept that it was illegal in many states. but you know, my bumps convince google bruce service because so you know where to put them on your shuttle and they deem it come when use my my status and let them store that. i near near the door. i see is much below it. you probably catch in that says this is a new country being she says it has a constitution that actually sense that they're opposed to racial and gender and all different kinds of discrimination. my grandfather and george time is from mitchell in virginia. and he ended

up in rush in the most peculiar way. she was a friend, an amazing contract with the ministry of culture room in russia. and he pretty much got in a boat and ended up in the soviet union in 1930. it's important to remember that this was the period of the great depression. and it was also a period in which the she'll be a government was doing massive recruitment people with technical skills. ah, he graduated university of agriculture. if there is 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 she had no clue what was going on. you watch, rush on the news. so that union communism. why would you want to go there?

george time had a dream and he found a solution. and seen he made history. some of the african americans who went to soviet union in the 19th thirty's, found great success. you look at lloyd patterson and his son, james patterson. james patterson became a national icon. the baby in the same as film circuits. the rare, you know, be released the movie circuit as an extraordinary story behind it. i think it was said to be stolen. favorite

in the opening scene as a woman running from an angry crowd, threatening her and throwing rocks at her. realize that the bundle she's been carrying is her black child. this german impresario. as the climax of the film reveal the truth to the audience in the circus that she has a black child. and of course, the soviet responses. so what do we care? we don't care if he's purple or pocket out it and then he, little jimmy is pass to various members of the audience who e thing him a lullaby. and one of the language is really the me, me, i mean,

it couldn't be more sac or in and more propagandistic by 2. but it had all the right nerves at the time is incredibly popular. even the song should have gotten should have that on my right. and i was even a sort of a de facto anthem of the soviet union i it's definitely fair to say that the soviet union where the prominent leader and anti racism at the government level is not just a fine. yes, it's the kitchen again. i think what, hello, what was it? what was that little black boy from the sac?

his movie is now 87. he was born and raised in the soviet union. he served in the navy as a sub mariner and he became an author. he wrote short stories in the early 19 ninety's after the soviet union. jim patterson moved to the usa to his father lloyd patterson's homeland to translate his work into english. you now lives alone in a social apartment in washington. the fin jill me monday though she's going to go through the lim low mean, but then we're still on bill through together. we shall be very boring the well to read to say that the be only

we will news categories. mood. jim sada patterson, like many other african americans move to the ussr to work on a contract basis. but he loved the country so much. he stayed and started a family here. he travelled in circles and the soviet union in moscow that he would not have in the united states. he had a wife. ready 3 sons, career, he was busy all the time. his wife was vera. at allah, she was a fairly well known designer station designer. what he saw at that time in 1932 in stollins moscow. however, the stranger might sound now he saw us of opportunity there. oh, oh. oh.

oh, no. they may again the from the godaddy. dolson pretty good. got pallet to milan, connecticut on the mouth solution, lga schumer. i'm assuming the food you good go yelton's cooking us to go into the local dom mr. shelby. i me to go and look over the in stoughton middle, lenient, some new my own. i do go to start the la bama it to start i in this a ross, the daughter of sylvia act, a robot 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, me in the late 19 eighties he played for the reserve team, one of the country's leading football clubs spot at moscow, nebraska, the liberal, petosi, discovered was to level us no little position. she'll not question much. citizens who did racism exist in this interview at the union. when you mileage of my own, what are you on your business level? promote order. watching a pastor. what happened after the iron curtain fell, when the descendants of those african americans could return to america, their ancestral homeland. geothermal importance subs. nice for them with that.

what's the deal with and why now a 100 years later is russia again attracting african americans? i look wish you, most of what the show me kind of puts it could have long distance away. you've got to go to sea food that may be red, orange, yellow. maybe we assume that they going to be on the sweet side of things and received a rounder softer, and they can maybe assume again, that they're going to be sweeter in some way. i will list what it says i'm supposed to put it in for you. i the, who's the person, who would you the questions for something you would bring it in with a cool. that's legible, there was. yep,

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ah, we are just a specialist so close to the yes i see. on the on yes, misspelled in modern russian. it would be hard to find anyone who hasn't heard of healing a hunger. she's worked on television since the late 19 eighties. hosting several popular talk shows, including russia's 1st tv show to discuss sex. nobody question quickly, but we can also see where, where the initial i v is mean. yeah. observe wiley's the see at the course or me abs. well, your blend because my link just especially i took the children i did you fix

it or do less all the more doesn't of the be lose at the moody me because you can, i mean yeah, which been have nico, when you go to mac or a 1000000 times his father george times moved to the soviet union in the 19 thirty's, along with many other african americans. and settled in the back soviet republic where he helps develop cattle breeding on collective thumbs. that's where amelia spent her early childhood. ready summer source and that they were willing to stay on the new union that i was built and the deal is look at them. i pretty much school she just says true. don't go down here so she will move up with them. so damn. yeah. to me. yeah. it was very if rasmus, the feminist issue only be the trends that i see on my medicare i seals as well. so

if you want me to get the book so that in that i, susan authority will chance to go. so that's and this is similar to service and so is it the book that i see them need to go with gold and my mama and roughly crushed into i mean you start cooking him when you will. you probably, i'm with, but i mean, it comes to me. why did you did this? when you published, when you bring your live convert to service, because they knew that there was racism throughout europe. but if they went to london or paris, they could stay in the very best hotel was that's not what they experience in america. ah, they live for an african american in the thirty's was 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. if there were accommodations for black, there would be separate toilets, for example, for what 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 to other places. maybe it just didn't occur to them the ago. she's teaching for me to push them and they're supposed to when you're dressed as junior, i was because i still would still be kept to believe them. i usually without the jelly is a way to deal with the property with the unit. ah, when to see the union collapsed, the descendants of those african americans had the chance to travel and to see their ancestral homeland for the 1st time. george times's grandson yorkie times was one of the few who went to the us in the early $990.00 s, which didn't about acoya with theory, which bird took pretty or so. so of course,

are you the crooked of sure, for most boys will not renewed on dot org. you cut osha. it's in the migration more than that. i'm not sure break. you could be you should let me know. says you're born. yeah, no, i don't college for my course when you're in the store, nobody showed up your d at the machine of the regular school. jordan, i'm glad you're stuck cousins. sure, david, you don't kick in on thursday when i spoke to you. it's just a quick what was, what are the next stage scrooge? and that's the way we would be with them, with the tape and little dash to with it with him that are the void, you know with them? yes, yes, yes. so she had to preach in newport news, smashed with them with duck, what sizeable do deal, which is what i do with michelle with here with him. i don't support your folks to wish to show us where she chauffeur's did make her go ahead,

but it was kick rich kick needed to stay. you want me to q and you sent that this mission. the motion with a business back to season. i mean, it is possible in knowing a little yeah, but just to make sure to get daughter, get the option that got me. what i see. so the unlike your times, his aunt emilia times moved to the usa and became an american citizen. she's lived there for the last 10 years. do those visit with mary lou? this is good. yes. what you'll do is even chance you can use the. yeah, but i see that i'm going to remind you what you've been sort of near what you list bus leave new war. there's old. yes, lou. surely usual with the reading you're still with the fear would be for me to

come to maybe come pick up the gun. i mean, who's ill family when it seems that there's no room, would the teachers give us more of a new way to dis bull chileya. what is our new physical say use a push. i'm not as blood clue as morrison. it always yo chill for me. of course chemistry, you probably know. let me go and show him be the she cook. i do not know i just showed it. i wish i know who it is. voices here come pioneer. katrina, you said news or for any of this is yet to my family come from from the street and your business. right now we haven't really done much with and it's a good price. you mentioned that you go me

only know most crucial. his plan is for francine. it is not that you know what to do. i must clear. we're hoarsely, mom, we sit, you only started. there's a lot of teach kids to play. so you want to just nationally and why is that? i'd make up my mind to move to russia. i want to leave a country where i was for munition racism. have we overcome all the racial problems and i for the 1930. no. not at all. if you look at the recent events, all too frustrating and similar to decades past the situation, i remember like it was yesterday and i asked for help from the police where it was

like an emergency. and then i became the victims as 3 police officers grabbed me and just throwing me down on the ground. and i had a bruise in my hand through my arm. i thought they were going to kill me, that they're going to shoot me by 3 copies in the office. it was the worst experience of my life that i probably not want to ever, ever lived again. i was so sick and because i, i grew up in a normal 4th orthodox family. you know, we're not getting there is, you know, no one has a guy, and we don't have any hoodie, i thought the police were there to help me. why aren't they helping me? it's history that repeated itself over and over and over again. and it hasn't been fixed. good. my great grandfather george times very that combination 1900,

you know, didn't the great depression. so it's moving. it's the same thing. just a different version when india was the, the i been living in moscow for one year. exactly. i teach english, i'm a teacher. i feel free and living in russia. in rush. no matter what time it is, i can walk outside and they were sitting outside the metro livable bench area. and then where the police office district was walking towards us and my heart speeding fast like why? because you know, living in america is the police yellow truck. you're traumatized and i was like, well talk, i'm scared. and then like, oh my friends just moved here from america. she rushed it 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. me. i do believe there is a piece of me. and the more i, the more i'm here, the more i see that i'm not going anywhere. the lessons that i meet here 1st, like okay, you're for, i know that when a depression and then wait, wait, wait to national. the more discussion, the thing is that the scene will start symbols be the social really lose lose weight. so say yes. in the future, you had feel still, boom would be on the doors with feel of your total billing

for them with a better deal as my yeah. gotten here. you're between the shifting if things, if you could actually, and you're doing your job actually mentioned you just lose a gun before my kids creation burning. your study says can you style is building new york and the additional lashley such as bush because the small i knew which in got just for glad to talk at mama brazil as reason. it took me a sledge also into movies or she tells me i was low and

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