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    Black in the USSR

    Black in the USSR

    FromWitness History

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    Black in the USSR

    FromWitness History

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    Length:
    9 minutes
    Released:
    Jun 20, 2016
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    Robert Robinson, a Jamaican born engineer, was recruited to work in the USSR from a factory in Detroit in 1930. Having had his US citizenship revoked, he spent 43 years unable to leave the Soviet Union. Dina Newman tells his story, using BBC archive. (Photo: Robert Robinson in the 1920s. Source: BBC archive)
    Released:
    Jun 20, 2016
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    History as told by the people who were there.