...  and shifting pictures of the period of time. Ayn was twelve in 1917 when the Russian Revolution occurred. Her father misplaced his pharmacy since the Soviets confiscated all companies as a way of enforcing the concepts of Communism. The family members moved to the Crimea in the hopes of continuing the enterprise exterior the attain of the Soviet process. Crimea became a Soviet state in 1921. Ayn burned her diary since it contained references to her hatred of collectivism as enforced by the Soviet Union. Read ...