Putin's grandfather was Stalin's loyal servant, his father was a secret policeman (NKVD), and Putin, the president for life of the so-called Russian federation, was a KBG officer (and is now a billionaire, since he is more corrupt than anyone else in that region) and you are worrying about Freeland's grandfather? Putin didn't fall far from the tree. He IS the tree, from the roots up - a legacy of mass murder, genocide, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, persecution, and imperialism.