Black in the USSR

Witness History: Witness Archive 2016

English - June 20, 2016 08:00 - 9 minutes - 4.27 MB - ★★★ - 8 ratings
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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)