Either way, if they take it out of the U.S., I will be impressed. Portraying 1983 America is one thing but pulling off 1980's USSR or even Kenya would be a lot more challenging.

I think you might be spot on. Did you see the season finale episode description from IMDB: Elizabeth and Paige take a trip that lands them in treacherous territory. Nothing more treacherous than the USSR :).

Has anyone seen the episode synopsis on imdb for next week's episode? "Philip and Elizabeth struggle with the gravity of unexpected collateral damage." This is telling me someone important is going to die. Thoughts? Martha, Kimmie? It could just be Hans, I suppose, but it just doesn't seem to me like they would…

It's the difference between tu and Usted in Spanish.

The reviewer incorrectly says she is in a Gulag - she is actually in Lefortovo, which was a political prison/detention center in the center of Moscow. That is the place they would bring people off the street, hence the clothes might still be their street clothes. It's still a detention center before she gets sent…