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" ... They hid the fact that many people in Ukraine, Belarus and other republics didn’t want to live under Soviet rule. In territories occupied by Germans during the war—mainly Ukraine—some people hoped the Nazis were the lesser evil and fought alongside them. Also, some in the heart of Russia elected not to support a Soviet regime that displaced and killed millions of citizens during famines and in labor camps. They looked for ways to avoid fighting in the Soviet Army against Germany. My very own maternal great-grandfather, Sergey, was one of those. Living in central Russia, the Soviet regime almost arrested him, labeling him “kulak” (a prosperous farmer, dangerous to the regime as a potential capitalist) and he fled his home with his entire family. Sergey didn’t like the soviets; when he was drafted during WWII, he shot himself in the leg and, after a doctor identified it as a self-inflicted wound and agreed not to report him, Sergey was left to work behind the lines. Our family never mentioned that story until the 1990s. ... "