Go On Pretending: African-Americans and the USSR

Robeson had to know what Stalin was doing to his own people. But Robeson also believed in the Communist cause enough to overlook Stalin’s crimes in the name of the greater, theoretical, it’s going to happen any second now good. Not to mention, as an African-American  (nay, an African-American celebrity), Robeson was, of course, treated better in the USSR than he was at home. He thus assumed that all African-Americans in the Soviet Union (and thousands of African-Americans, as well as Africans did make that move in the 1920s, 1930s, 1950s and 1960s) were treated equally well. And since the Soviet Union had outlawed racism upon its creation, that meant all minorities were treated exactly like him. 

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