The objective of the present scientific paper is to bring out of anonymity an important segment of the evolution of national art in the context of the eastern refuge-exile of the 70s. The exodus of the people of culture, unprecedented in other ex-Soviet republics, is accentuated ab ovo. It is explained by the establishment of an atrocious ideological dictate in the Moldovan SSR, which uprooted everything that was talent and value. Appealing to the juxtaposition of the identity and psychoanalytic perspective, we come to the conclusion that the refuge-exile oxymoron manifests itself in two diametrically opposed stages, the first paying tribute to the utopianism of the 60s, and the second being inscribed in the immanence of the loss of the artistic self, ravaged by the orphan syndrome. In conclusion, the author argues the need to evaluate the serious consequences of the refuge-exile equation, a borderline situation for the artists rejected by the homeland, but also of the homeland left without Artists, and of the phenomenon of the second “ethnic renaissance”, guided by the Moldovan diaspora in Moscow.