Comment by dotancohen

  > if you are from a group of people that you government has decided is trouble, then you tend to disappear in the night.

So this really is a case of survivorship bias. Those that survived the Soviet times, remember it, not fondly, but as a more secure time. Those that didn't survive, we don't hear their accounts very much.

  > my father in law was hiding "reds" under the floorboards as they where Jewish and being procecuted.

Why were the Jews being persecuted then?