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English Women Marry Soviet Poets Refuse to Renounce Home
American and British women who wed Soviet men in Moscow face mixed fates as officials and families react with disapproval. Jan Butler and Jennifer Louis, both English born, live in Moscow with their husbands Yevtushenko and Viktor, enjoying unusual privileges. A less fortunate American recounts a fiancé who vanished after marriage plans faltered, highlighting the risks of cross border unions in the Iron Curtain era.
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Iron Curtain
Moscow
Christina Onassis
Jan Butler
Soviet Union
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Jennifer Louis
Viktor
London Evening News
United States
Jennifer
Jan
Yevtushenko
Louis
Russia
Siberia
Progress Publishing Co
Soviet Writers’ Union
Progress
Jan Yevtushenko
London