Ülo Sooster life and time
His high school days were spent in Tallinn at France Lycee. Ülo Sooster studied art in
Tartu during the period of 1943 1949. During his first year there, the scool was
renamed the ,,Pallas Higher Art School".
· In November of 1949 Ülo Sooster and the men belonging to his circle of friends were
arrested, acvused of hardended decadence and bourglious natsionalism (süüdistatuna
paadunud dekadendsuses ja kodanlikus natsionalismis).
· The fate carried him to a prison camp in Karanganda. Despite everything he continued
creating his art there and even found offical ,,application" as the camp's artist. In
Kranganda Ülo met his futuure wife Lidia.
· In 1956 they returned to Estonia together. During those seven years the situation in
Estonia had changed Ülo wasn't able to find work or a place to live so he and his
wife decided to search for a chance in Moscow.
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