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Black in the USSR
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:09:20
Publish Date: 2016-06-20 03:00:00
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)
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