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World Service,20 Jun 2016,9 mins

Black in the USSR

Witness History

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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 Âé¶¹Éç archive. (Photo: Robert Robinson in the 1920s. Source: Âé¶¹Éç archive)

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