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It's a warm summers 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 any of my 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,

they're boarded up façades 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.

Hang of dread courses through her body.

Under the tyrannical rule of Joseph Stalin,

a 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 alley,

her heart rate quickening.

But before she can get very far, limousine screeches to a stop alongside her.

The door swings open and two men in military uniform step out.

They stride up to the young woman and order her inside the vehicle.

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