Black about Reds. 44 years in the Soviet Union. Autobiography of a black American

In the Epoch of Industrialization, the Soviet Union attracted foreign specialists from around the world. One of them was the young black American Robert Robinson, who arrived in the summer of 1930 from the Ford plant to the Stalingrad Tractor - to work and train Soviet workers. The USSR then offered salaries twice as much as it was possible to expect to get in the US Depression covered by the Great Depression.
For your conscientious work and innovative achievements, Comrade Robinson - a non-partisan black American citizen and a deeply believer man - in 1934 he was elected to the Mossovet deputies, not knowing what it would turn into it. Dividing the fate of millions of workers of the USSR, Robert Robinson survived the Stalinist cleansing, the Great Patriotic War, the omnipresent supervision of the KGB and fully bought the charms of Soviet reality, including the "non-existent" in the co-wind alliance of household racism.
Robinson"s USSR has been escaped only 44 years later - in 1974, aged 67 years.
It was not possible to make a communist out of it: I prevented a firm faith in God, she also helped him to stay removed, sober, albeit sometimes naive, the observer of a huge segment of our daily life - from Stalin to Brezhnev and Gorbachev