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Witness History: Black history

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Black in the USSR

Witness History: Black history

9 minutes

9 years ago

Black in the USSR

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)

Witness History: Black history

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