The great African American escape to Soviet Russia

While the Soviet Union under Stalin did plenty of internal ethnic cleansing, it also attempted to present a carefully curated vision of equality to the West, in contrast to America. It was a land where anyone could live their dream. The notion of equality and relative freedom appealed to Black Americans living under Jim Crow, which restricted where they could live, learn, and work, who they could marry, and how far they could advance their own lives. — Read the rest