"Izvestia" & History

Today I decided that every working day I will find an interesting article to read in Russian language - just to train up my reading & understanding skills a bit. So, a while ago I stumbled on a history section of a Russian newspaper "Izvestia", where my attention was caught by another subsection - the newspaper had announced a competition about the best family legends 'in photographs' older than 1957. Anyway, this is what I learned today (the story is told by a photo-corespondent Victor Ahlomov about his own childhood) : during the WWII (namely 1941), when the Germans had neared Moscow, Stalin gave out an order to evacuate all children out of Moscow to some sort of centers. People say that during 'training' air raids, where everybody was obliged to run to shelters and subways, the 'discovered' children were immediately taken away despite them actually being together with their parents. Following the orders of Stalin, you see. Anyway, Victor's family, deliberately ignoring those instructions, stayed in Moscow all throughout the war. He remembers (he was 4 at the time) him being carried in a large bag or a backpack under the disguise of being "valuable items" to the nearest metro station during some air raids. His family lived in a 5-room apartment "community" or as called in Russian "kommunalka" - a  large apartment occupied by several families, each having only one room. Time to time their home would be inspected by some true believers of the "system" - Victor was always successfully hidden; mostly on the top of the roof of the 5 story building or with other neighbors. Thus he avoided the "evacuation". Unfortunately the article doesn't say anything more about the "evacuated" youngsters.