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In Stalin's USSR, White Americans were arrested, prosecuted & deported for the crime of White Chauvinism against Black Americans. (hexbear.net)
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Found via this tweet. Here 's the book where the quote is from.

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[–] ComradeSankara@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

Am I just making a stupid assumption or do I feel like when Anglicizing a Jamaican they could pick a fucking better name than "Robert Robertson" ?

Maybe just don't do it at all

[–] SiskoDid2ThingsWrong@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

This is an interesting story, but correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t Robertson that guy who was made a Communist Party Member against his will and ended up not being allowed to emigrate back to the US despite wanting to?

[–] richietozier4@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

think so yeah. seems like a dumb thing on the USSR's part

[–] SiskoDid2ThingsWrong@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

Yeah I saw an interview with him once, he didn’t seem very happy about the whole affair