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Originally Posted by svin
That's true, there were not African refugees. The only half-black children I know appeared after Moscow Olympic games in 1980.
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Actually, there were some blacks in the Soviet Union before that.
See:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=003...3E2.0.CO%3B2-C
An interesting comment:
"Some allegations, such as one that by the end of 1962 racism against Blacks in the Soviet Union was worse than in the United States"...
This probably referred to an incident when some Negro made a Russian woman pregnant and wanted to marry her. Her brother killed the black man.
Hundreds of blacks reportedly chimped out on the Red Square "demonstrating against racism" and this was not tolerated by the KGB.
BTW, my university does not give me access to that journal so perhaps someone else can more accurately report what it says. The quote appeared in the Google search. =)