Wow. I wonder how they came to adopt the boys.
I originally suspected it was an extended family adoption where a niece or young cousin gives up her babies to an older relative before she goes to jail, dies or submits to hard-core drugs.
At their ages (62 & 50), it would be nearly impossible to get an American adoption approval for babies. They likely did come from an Eastern-bloc country. The Russians do not give up their healthy babies but they were selling the ones with problems and disabilities. Well-meaning naive Americans were buying.