Yuri’s work on his historical DNA database project was progressing every day as his secret source gained more access to items worn by historically significant Russian people and samples from their known descendants. His latest triumph was a sample from Vladimir Putin and he excitedly ran it through his system.

After several hours he had a match. His mouth gaped.  Joseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, born in Georgia in 1879, later adopting the name Joseph Stalin. Unaware his system had been hacked, he answered the door to the men from the Russian Ministry for State Security, the reincarnation of the KGB.