She returned to the Soviet Union in the spring of 1937 , the year of the Great Terror , where she worked as an announcer and editor for the English-language broadcasts of Radio Moscow , the international shortwave news service of the Soviet government . Burroughs remained in Moscow for virtually the rest of her life . In the spring of 1940 she made a request to return to the United States together with her sons but was persuaded to stay owing to the lack of capable Americans remaining in the USSR . The war intervened and Burroughs and her sons remained in Moscow until 1945 , when she finally managed to return to New York with the younger boy
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Williana Burroughs