Stalin children

It’s a warm summer’s night in the Soviet Union in 1943. 

A young woman walks home alone through the dark, deserted streets of Moscow. She's just finished a long shift at a nearby munitions factory, and her weary limbs ache for the comfort of her warm bed.

As the young woman shuffles past row upon row of derelict buildings, their boarded-up facades plastered with wartime propaganda posters, she hears the soft rumbling of a car engine somewhere close behind.

Glancing over her shoulder, the young woman notices a black limousine idling in the glow of a street lamp.

Pang of dread courses through her body.

Under the tyrannical rule of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union has become a place of paranoia and suspicion, where even ordinary citizens live in constant fear of being arrested and transported to a dreaded gulag detention camp.

Afraid she’s being followed, the young woman spins around and ducks down a dingy side al