We all know how much of a good guy Stalin was, right?
Wrong ofc:
Order 270 of the USSR killed the children of any Russian who surrendered to the Germans.
In August of 1941, so many Russians were defecting to the Axis nations Germany, Finland, Romania, Hungary, to escape the concentration camps of Communism that the USSR enacted the notorious "Order 270" which punished and killed the family, which included even children of every Russian who defected to the West.
Actual text of Order 270:
"To bind each soldier, independent of his official position, to rebuff the enemy to the death, rather than to be taken and held captive, the family of the captured Red Army men to be deprived of welfare payment and of aid."
Order 270 of the U.S.S.R.
August 16, 1941
1941, Source: [RGVA], f. 4, pub. 12, d. 98, l. 617-622. Certified copy. Published in Military History Periodical. 1988. ***8470; 9. s. 26-28. I
Orders of the People's Commissariat of the Defense of the USSR.
June 22, 1941. - 1942 g. - M.
Published: 1997. - Vol. 13 (2-2). - S. 58-60. - 448 s. - (Russian archive: Great Domestic).
ISBN 5-85255-708-0
When Order 270 states that all aid to the families of soliders who are captured alive will be cut off, it means all food, water, shelter during the -20 degree Russian winter, a death sentence. When people were denied housing, they became technically vagrants in the USSR, and by law all vagrants were rounded up and sent to die in the Gulags.
Which in a state system means the family freezes out in the cold and starves, until they are rounded up as a vagrants and sentenced to the Gulags for the rest of their lives, which in a Gulag was about 3 years. Being deprived to shelter from the winter, deprived of food and water, condemned to vagrancy and arrest to be sent to the Gulags which was a death sentence for 60 million people.
Source: Roberts, Geoffrey. Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939***8211;1953. New Heaven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2006 (hardcover, ISBN 0300112041), page 98
http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300112047