Russian President Vladmir Putin welcomed home two married undercover spies, and their children, as a part of the prisoner swap with the U.S. The undercover spies did not tell their children they were Russian until the swap. The story is similar to that of the TV show 'The Americans.
Why did Russian President Vladimir Putin greet the children of just-freed Russian spies in Spanish? The reason is straight out of an episode of the hit TV spy show “The Americans.” Among the first prisoners stepping off the plane to greet President Putin was a slender brown-haired woman grasping the hand of her young daughter. She appeared to stifle a sob as she hugged Putin. He handed her a bouquet of pink flowers, and another to her daughter. Putin also hugged her husband and kissed their son.
Their children attended an international school in Ljubljana and, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, were only told on the plane to Moscow that they were Russian. “Before that, they did not know that they were Russian, that they had anything to do with our country,” Peskov said in a statement on Friday.
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