Does anyone here remember an interview he did with a Female black commentator from the Soviet Union who was a descendant from Black America? Form what I remember:
She was a 24 year old commentator that said she received her College education in journlism from the Soviet Academy of African Arts, which is located in Moscow. She went on to say that her great grandparents were among several Hundreds of African Americans that left the United States during the Great Depression to find work. She stated that several american blacks fled to europe during this peroid and spread themselves out all over the continent (Josephine Baker was amongst those that fled to france). Anyway, her (this commentator)'s parents chose to go to Russia seeking work and were employed on farms working in the potato fields. Later on the war started and the blacks in Russia fought bravely in the Soviet Army against the Nazi invaders. After the war, ( and the revolution afterwards), they were finally nationalized as full citizens and the Soviet Academy of African Arts was built for them in their honor. She went on to say that the black population in Russia is roughly around 3% of the entire population in general, and that both she and her family was very happy there.
I have been serching for more info to cite this but so far I have come up with nothing. Does anyone here know how or where I can find any information on the black population of Russia? (… Books, websites, anything)?
When I visited Russia (about 10 days in Moscow and Kaliningrad), I saw approximately zero people of apparent African descent. Maybe 1 or 2.
Its possible the black population is centered somewhere other than those two cities, but the apparent non-european ethnicities I encountered were mostly Mongolian in appearence.
Starguard: I remember this woman as well, but can’t think of her name. By using the search terms
“blacks” + “Soviet Union” + “Great Depression”
I did find a cached page which confirms that hundreds of American blacks did at least visit the Soviet Union during the 1920’s and '30’s. The title is RUS 493 - Module #3: Introduction.
The most famous “black Russian” is Alexander Pushkin, the author of such works as the drama Boris Godunov and the novel Evgeni Onegin. As this page states:
