He didn't die in Paris
There is a Ukrainian rock 'n' roll song called "We Will Not Die in Paris" by a band called Dead Rooster that became popular in 1991 as the Soviet Union was losing its grip on Ukraine. The context of the song was that a lot of Ukrainian poets and artists had fled to the West while their homeland was a Soviet client state, and that they intended one day to return.
Source: arkansasonline.com