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Independently Guinea screening with The President of Guinea in the USSR Series: The 15th Annual New York African Film Festival [April 9-April 15] Independently Guinea US Premiere Archival footage, USSR, 1959; 40m. In Russian One year after independence, we catch a glimpse of life in Guinea. The revolution is still alive in the minds and hearts of the people! screening with The President of Guinea in the USSR US Premiere Archival Footage, USSR, 1959; 20m. In Russian Communist leaders welcome Guinean President Sékou Ahmed Touré on his first visit to the USSR as the leader of an independent Guinea. screening with Hello Guinea US Premiere Archival footage, USSR, 1961; 20m. In Russian Leonard Brezhnev visits Guinea and is welcomed by Sekou Touré and the people of Guinea. A brief sojourn into the heart of newly independent Guinea only three years after decolonization.

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