Mao Anying experienced the full brunt of the war against Germany and Japan, only to end up succumbing to an American air raid. In the course of World War II, children of Soviet leaders frequently participated in the fighting together with regular soldiers: among them was Stalin’s son, who was taken prisoner by the Germans (and ended up dying in captivity), artillery battery commander Yakob Dzhugashvili; then there was Khruschev’s son - pilot Leonid Khruschev, who died during combat in 1943. Occasionally, children of major figures of global communism from around the world also came to the defense of the...