There's really no way to know. Plenty of Soviet POWs were sent to the Gulags after they returned home because they'd been in enemy territory and were accused to collaborating. There were spy exchanges, but there were also spies who probably were left to rot on their own in American prisons.
Twenty years in America, the fact that they'd probably object to leaving behind some of their kids' things, the children would probably get into trouble which would lead to blaming the parents and it all really depends on who's in charge, when they'd be caught/sent back, or anything really. After Stalin, Gulags and prison sentences tapered off a bit, but they're still sort of practiced - just not to the extreme they were. Plus, Moscow could always refuse to claim them/deny knowledge and with no way to show a Soviet passport and all forged documents, they wouldn't be able to get in publicly if Moscow didn't want them.
Elizabeth is really naive. When they suggested Gregory go to Moscow I about choked on my water. I love Russia and all, but I'll be blunt: a lot of them are racist as hell. An African American in the 80s would probably end up committing suicide if he had to live there for the rest of his life. No one would really trust him (he's a foreigner, it's the USSR, someone might be looking for traitors), he'd be isolated, no one would have his culture, he wouldn't know the language, he's used to a nice apartment, if he got put in a kommunalka tensions would probably rise, and he would not be prepared for the weather. She has this idea that all that matters is that he's fought for the cause, but that's not all that matters.
The kids would fare even worse. They'd been raised as Americans, aren't fully capable of understanding the ideology disagreements, Paige is materialistic (all the leg warmers which will start a famine :) ), used to a better quality of life, don't speak a word of Russian, and they'd arrive in the decade before the Soviet Union falls, the economy goes into haywire, and they would have to fight in the Soviet job market where who knows what would happen. In the 80s, they'd make friends because they'd be the epitome of the underground western culture but that'd really be it of the perks.
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Twenty years in America, the fact that they'd probably object to leaving behind some of their kids' things, the children would probably get into trouble which would lead to blaming the parents and it all really depends on who's in charge, when they'd be caught/sent back, or anything really. After Stalin, Gulags and prison sentences tapered off a bit, but they're still sort of practiced - just not to the extreme they were. Plus, Moscow could always refuse to claim them/deny knowledge and with no way to show a Soviet passport and all forged documents, they wouldn't be able to get in publicly if Moscow didn't want them.
Elizabeth is really naive. When they suggested Gregory go to Moscow I about choked on my water. I love Russia and all, but I'll be blunt: a lot of them are racist as hell. An African American in the 80s would probably end up committing suicide if he had to live there for the rest of his life. No one would really trust him (he's a foreigner, it's the USSR, someone might be looking for traitors), he'd be isolated, no one would have his culture, he wouldn't know the language, he's used to a nice apartment, if he got put in a kommunalka tensions would probably rise, and he would not be prepared for the weather. She has this idea that all that matters is that he's fought for the cause, but that's not all that matters.
The kids would fare even worse. They'd been raised as Americans, aren't fully capable of understanding the ideology disagreements, Paige is materialistic (all the leg warmers which will start a famine :) ), used to a better quality of life, don't speak a word of Russian, and they'd arrive in the decade before the Soviet Union falls, the economy goes into haywire, and they would have to fight in the Soviet job market where who knows what would happen. In the 80s, they'd make friends because they'd be the epitome of the underground western culture but that'd really be it of the perks.