Black in the USSR
Jun 20, 2016 ·
9m 34s
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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...
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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)
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(Photo: Robert Robinson in the 1920s. Source: BBC archive)
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