However, on January 21, 1981, the United States Supreme Court overturned this verdict[16] and in December 1984 Fedorenko became the first Nazi war criminal to be deported to the Soviet Union.[17] In Punishers: May 9th, it was claimed that he was not detained by the KGB upon arrival and spent weeks drinking in his native Dzhankoy, walking free until his arrest in January 1985 after a report titled "Nazi Fedorenko feels free in USSR" was reportedly published in The Washington Post.