BLACK RUSSIANS
@Red_Experience
This's documentary (in post-prod) on Black Americans who left their country for Stalin's Russia in 1930s & their descendants today.
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Robert Robinson who went to the USSR in 1929 worked at the Ford factory in Detroit. He was a very skillful worker and invited by the Soviets to come to the Soviet Union and work for them. During Great Depression that was a good opportunity for him... bbc.com/news/av/storie…
Langston Hughes, a great American poet, went to the USSR in 1932 to make a film called “Black and White” and stayed there for six months traveling around Central Asia. nytimes.com/2019/03/19/boo…
A Forgotten Presidential Candidate From 1904 npr.org/sections/npr-h…
On March 25, 1931, nine unemployed young black men, the Scottsboro Boys were falsely accused of raping two white women on board a train near Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931. Convicted and facing... facebook.com/blackrussianst…
February is Black History Month in America. facebook.com/story.php?stor…
Great Soviet artist Alexander Deineka traveled to USA in the 30s & got fascinated with Harlem. He went there to listen to music and watch people dance, painted a few paintings of African Americans after he came back to Russia. This wonderful painting is titled“Negro concert.”
Wayland Rudd, Sr. came to the Soviet Union in 1932 with a group of 22 people including a great American poet Langston Hughes. He stayed in Russia for good. On this photo he plays Othello in Russian with a traveling theatre, 1947.
A great article by our participant and board member, Maxim Matusevich, on Soviet anti-racism. facebook.com/story.php?stor…
Hatred is in charge of this country.
Opinion | When the Harlem Renaissance Went to Communist Moscow nytimes.com/2017/08/21/opi…
George Tynes, the black American who came to the Soviet Union in 1931, dances with his Russian wife, Maria. An agriculture specialist, he became an important duck breeder in the USSR at that time. In fact, he was the one who introduced turkey to Russia as well as Peking duck.
US reopens investigation into Emmett Till murder case from 1955 aljazeera.com/news/2018/07/r…
Amazing photograph of this march in East Germany after the Soviet occupation. Everyone is carrying a portrait of Stalin just a few years after Hitler’s defeat. They don’t look very happy. facebook.com/story.php?stor…
Lily Golden, the daughter of Oliver Golden and Bertha Bialek -- the interracial couple that moved to USSR in 1931 from New York escaping racism in America -- plays piano for her fellow students of Moscow University in the 1950s. It could've never happened in the US back then.
George Tynes and Wayland Rudd Sr. (both standing in last row) came to Soviet Russia in the 1930s and never came back to segregated America. They married Russian women. Tynes (left) worked at a scientist, duck breeder, for the collective farms. Rudd (right) was an actor.
The Top Secret Scandal Behind the Kremlin’s MH17 Massacre observer.com/2018/05/kremli…
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