SOCIALISM AND BLACK ICONS

SOCIALISM AND BLACK ICONS All too easily we may no longer recall that Russia was an ally in World War II against Nazi Germany. They whipped Adolf Hitler in Eastern Europe as the Allies did in Western Europe and in Africa. The post WWII "Cold War" that ensued (and still continues) was all about spoils, global hegemony between the two former atomic-powered allies as was the Russian scientific marvel of "Sputnik!" Many African Americans were deemed to be socialists of sorts, up to WWII. Langston Hughes actually spent considerable time living in Russia, visiting big cities and remote villages. He writes of his experiences and observations of Russia, China, Japan in the 1930s in I WONDER AS I WANDER his second autobiography, after THE BIG SEA, his first . On the other hand Richard Wright, Langston Hughes's iconic literary contemporary did not care, finally, very much at all for socialism nor communism , as graphically shown in his deft novel THE OUTSIDER. Just thought I would set another context for Trump-Putin detente !