![]() Raisa and Leo’s daughters, Zoya the cynic, and Elena the idealistic dreamer, are part of the Soviet student delegation. She’d stood by him and still regards herself as lucky to have him as a husband. Too proud to ask for help from the US Communist Party, he releases records via subscription and lives on his wife’s waitress earnings. ![]() Harassed by the FBI, he found himself without a record deal, unable to book venues for concerts and forced to move from a luxury lifestyle to a crumbling apartment block surrounded by the unemployed and neglected. Meanwhile Jesse Austin has fallen on hard times. She snatches the opportunity to organise a students’ music concert with a choir and orchestra of both American and Soviet music students in New York, deliberately choosing politically neutral pieces for the performance. Leo has good reason to remember Jesse Austin with fondness as he meets his wife Raisa at the concert.įast forward to the mid-sixties, Leo and Raisa have two adopted daughters, Leo has left the KGB and Raisa is still a teacher. ![]() ![]() The Soviets regard Jesse Austin’s outspoken admiration for Communism a huge propaganda coup and want his visit to Moscow to be a success. In the build-up to the Cold War, Leo Demidov, a KGB officer, is assigned to ‘babysit’ US singer Jesse Austin. ![]()
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