After visiting the Soviet Union in the 1930s, American actor/singer/civil rights activist Paul Robeson became smitten with communist society and it’s egalitarian ideals. He found that “the country was entirely free of racial prejudice and that Afro-American spiritual music resonated to Russian folk traditions.”
“Here, for the first time in my life … I walk in full human dignity.”
He welcomed the arrival of communism in China by singing the Chinese national anthem ‘March Of The Volunteers‘ at a performance in Europe in 1949:
