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“The American Embassy was the lifeline for rejectees,” she said. “Communism ran the art communities, providing studios and materials for those who painted Lenin, healthy babies and happy women in the fields gathering wheat,” she added.
Describing the life of those artists who refused to paint what they were told, she said, “I visited many one room dwellings that housed whole extended families. The artists had lost their jobs, they struggled to afford art supplies and hid their paintings under cloths.
“They had to rely on the risky business of selling their work underground to collectors who had contact with western diplomats. Often these dealers were KGB contacts who would interrogate them and possibly send them to a psychiatric ward,” she said.
It was in these difficult times that Robin met Maryanne Ozernoy. Her father read western literature and exposed her to western ideas at a young age. She began to express her struggle toward freedom through poetry.
She was quite talented as a young girl. As her disillusionment wjlh communism rose, her poetry no Tonger held the appeal with the ruling conservatives.
Forced underground when her fanmily applied to emigrate, she lost her job and began writing what she needed to say.
For seven long years she wrote and struggled to give her daughters the best education possible while her husband kept his job as a valuable astro-physicist with the Soviet space program.
Finally they were allowed to emigrate in 1986, two years after Robin
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