Timewatch · SEASON 10
Reluctant Comrade
Episode 4 · 1991-02-27
- Documentary
Episode overview
In 1934, Robert Robinson, a young black car worker from Detroit, was blacklisted by America after renewing a short-term contract from the Russians to work in the First State Ball Bearing Plant in Moscow. During his enforced 44 years inside the Soviet Union, Robinson was coerced to work alongside Stalin on the Moscow Soviet and ultimately to take citizenship. He finally succeeded in escaping while on a visit to Uganda. Now 84 and living in Washington, DC, Robert Robinson recounts his extraordinary life and observations of the Soviet Union during a crucial period in its history.
50 minutes
Season 10 episodes
1. Savagery and the American Indian: 1: Wilderness1991-01-23
2. Savagery and the American Indian: 2: Civilisation1991-01-30
3. The Man Who Made the Supergun1991-02-13
4. Reluctant Comrade1991-02-27
5. The Transmission of Roger Bacon1991-03-13
6. Palestine: The First Intifada1991-03-27
7. A Cold War1991-04-10
8. Beside Franco in Spain1991-09-18
9. Charles Darwin - Devil's Chaplain1991-10-02
10. The Columbus Conspiracy1991-10-16
11. Harvests of Iron: 1: The Watch on the Somme1991-10-30
12. Harvests of Iron: 2: The Theatre of Operations1991-11-06
13. Suffer the Children1991-11-20
14. The Spoils of War1991-12-18
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