More than one Eastern European intellectual survived doing menial work temporarily, e.g. Milan Kundera https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/r

More than one Eastern European intellectual survived doing menial work temporarily, e.g. Milan Kundera https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/russian-and-eastern-european-literature-biographies/milan-kundera https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/russ...