NxNE Austin Rotarian Tink Hill, who always brings us fascinating topics, spoke to the club about African Americans in the USSR. During the 1930s, hundreds of Black Americans left and went to the USSR seeking more freedom. Because of Jim Crow laws in the US, there was more opportunity in the USSR to work especially for skilled workers. There was also less racism in the USSR for mixed race couples. Many of their descendants still live there – approximately 40,000-70,000. Tink showed us video about these emigrants to the USSR. The video contained stories of many of the people that migrated to USSR in 1930s. Some had great success there. The video discussed a film that contained a Black child as star; it was a propaganda film showing that the USSR was anti-racist. That child was interviewed as part of the video. He now lives in the US. Racism in the USSR was on an individual basis instead of state-based racism that was existing in the US at that time. One of the interviewees told of moving back to Moscow because of the racism that still exists in the US; she had a bad experience with the police before she moved to Moscow. Her great-grandfather had moved to Moscow in the 1930s. One of the interviewees is a journalist on Russian TV. This was a very interesting and informative presentation. Thanks, Tink!