A unique film explores the history of the first child born to African-American parents who left the US for the Soviet Union to find a better life. RFE/RL reports
They mostly call me Joe,” says Yosif Stalin, an octogenarian resident of Kremlin, and Virginia who claims to be the first child of African-American parents ever born in the Soviet Union. Now aged 84,full name Yosif Stalin Kim Roane, he is among the few living descendants of the black men and women who travelled to the nascent USSR in the 1920s and 1930s in search of a better life.
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Source: theguardian.com