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...several unauthorized meetings with Western newsmen, Zoya, now 63, and her beautiful daughter Victoria, 29, disclosed the details. Five months after Zoya's affair with Jack had begun, the actress was suddenly sent on a road tour, and Jack was declared persona non grata by the Soviets. He was put aboard a plane for Washington the same day. Zoya learned later that he had vainly sent her a series of desperate letters. A few years later, he received an anonymous note from Russia, probably inspired by the secret police, that said: "Stop annoying our famous actress. She has married...
Obliterated Name. In fact, Zoya never married. After Victoria's birth, she was arrested and subsequently sentenced to 25 years for espionage because of her relationship with the American officer. Her baby girl was sent to live with an aunt in remote Kazakhstan in Central Asia. Although Zoya now declines to dwell on her ordeal, she is well remembered by another ex-inmate of Stalin's prisons and camps, Alexander Dolgun, who now lives in Maryland. A former U.S. embassy clerk who was kidnaped by the Soviet secret police in 1948 and freed only in 1956, Dolgun spent...
...films, like the ultra-patriotic Boyevye Podrugi (Comrades at Arms), were shown to the prisoners. But Zoya's name was obliterated from the credits. In 1955 Zoya was released and reunited with her daughter. Since then Zoya has returned to films as a character actress, and Victoria has become a famous movie actress herself. She has been featured in 17 major films, and starred as a deaf-mute in A Ballad of Love. When Ballad was released in the U.S. in 1966, Victoria was acclaimed by one reviewer as "perfect in a difficult part." Divorced from her scriptwriter husband...
...recent letter to Zoya he wrote, "I loved you then, and I still love you. We have done no harm to anyone, only loved each other. Why should we be the subject of malice from a powerful political organization or government? And certainly there can be no onus on Victoria, the innocent child of our union." Since Tate, now 77, underwent open-heart surgery in 1973, father and daughter have been determined to meet. "My life is far behind me," he wrote to Victoria, "and the road ahead is short." When he recovered he sent her an invitation to visit...
...Moscow, Victoria's request for a three-month exit permit to visit Tate met with stony silence from the Soviet visa office and disapproval from the secret police. Hoping that publicity would jog the authorities, Victoria turned to the Western press. She told reporters that she fears her career is in jeopardy. Although she was the cover girl of Soviet Screen last March, her picture has been removed from the official Soviet film-export office in Moscow, and her bosses have grown markedly cool...