'Hopelessness was everything': Elena Solovey told why she left her career and moved to the USA
'17.04.2020'
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The once-popular actress explained her decision to move to America, writes "Kinoafisha".
Elena Solovey visited the studio of the program “The Fate of Man” on the TV channel “Russia 1”, where she admitted why she preferred the United States to Russia.
She recalled that in the 1980s in the era of the USSR there was a very unstable situation. No one understood what would happen to the country further. Alarming times have come. As a result, Elena and her husband and children decided to go to America.
“Now this, of course, sounds scary,” the actress shared. - The decision was not easy. But still it happened. My daughter just graduated from school, then his son Pasha was 15 years old. "
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Elena did not see the future for her children in Russia, and in the United States there were prospects for their education and further development. This is what served as the main impetus for the decision. In addition, according to the actress, there was hopelessness around, everyone was leaving, everyone needed money.
“There was some hopelessness in everything,” admitted the movie star. - Many mathematicians and physicists then left. "Ira’s daughter in America immediately went to study, Pasha went to school."
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In the US, Nightingale and her husband quickly found a decent job, although the celebrity was no longer able to build an acting career.
“Jura got his first job in the USA at a jewelry factory,” said Elena. - All the artists who came to New York from the USSR worked there. I went to work on the radio. I understood that for me in the Union, my acting career was over. Colleagues did not know at all that I would leave, because a year before leaving, she quit the theater. For loved ones, our move was a drama and a tragedy at the same time. ”
