[Colonel Kangaroo]

Fascinating that they proclaimed their innocence to their children - basically telling their kids: "I'd rather die for Stalin than live for you."

And at that very time, Stalin was starting to put together the early stages of his most terrible purge/pogram, the infamous "Doctors' Plot".

[Borges]

The Soviet Army had never stood down after WW2 ended. Stalin was planning to exile all Jews to Siberia and intensify a massive purge that would be the final rupture with the West and bring on another World War he thought they were sure to win.