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Adam Samogit (born 1936 in Vilimski, Lithuania), 
sculptor/painter/poet, fled from the USSR, jumping ship
(s/s Szczenin) and wisely did not report to German police, to 
avoid  giving him back to The Soviets.   He walked 
miles and miles near Nuremberg. Then the Germans could not refuse 
him political asylum.
In  the late 70s. he won a contest (over Henry Moore) for a 
sculpture destined for The Bank For International 
Settlements BIS, in Basle. He lives , with his family, close to 
Paris. Invited to the new democratic 
Lithuania,Adam Samogit executed a  sculpture "National 
Resistance" in Klaipeda.
Adam Samogit is among the great masters of The New Russian, 
Nonconformist, Dissident, Avant-Garde.   You can see his works 
and those of other famous artists( Kabakov, Bulatov, 
Yankilevsky, Rabin, Tselkov, Yakovlev, Weissberg, and many 
others,in "The Lili Brochetain Collection" at
http://www.stria.ca/Brochetain