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Black in the USSR

Stories of black Americans, who fled to the Soviet Union to escape race discrimination

Fed up with constant racial discrimination, several hundred African Americans moved to the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Many still live in Russia and explain why they left the ‘land of dreams’ and how they gained freedom behind the Iron Curtain.

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