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Сообщение от Tamila

Is it matter what language to speak?
For example, the poet and painter Vladimir Slepian, one of the first who left the Soviet Union, principally spoke only in French (he lived in Paris). And even meeting with his countrymen, demanding to converse in French, no doubt, therefore, expressing his "contempt" for the former homeland. Poems he wrote in French, incidentally.
And does that make it ceases to be "a Russian artist in exile"?

He is not Russian because they refused to from the motherland. These are two big differences.