My paternal grandmother was from the Ukraine but left prior to the Bolshevik revolution, my dad was born in 1917 in the US. I grew up hearing how horrible the Bolsheviks were and that’s what they were called in our house. I, too, am glad this story will be told.
I have a parishioner who lived thru the Genocide and whenever he is reminded of it he breaks down in tears like it was yesterday.
He lost siblings as well as other family members and hundreds of neighbors on their village.
His descriptions are incredible and painful, but practically no one in the US knows about this because our education system does not allow anyone to learn about it
My parents were little when they fled in the 1940s. Their parents were doctors, lawyers, dentists, and architects, so that was considered upper middle class -— even though their homes were quite modest. They waited it out through the first battles between the Communists and the Nazis, but then had to flee, relatives were starting to disappear to Siberia. And the Russian Communists were placed in my father’s home to “take care of it”....
My father’s family’s choice was Hitler or Stalin, and they were going to be better off in one of Hitler’s camps than in Stalin’s... that is pretty horrible.
My mom’s family made it to Austria which had already surrendered...
They all thought they’d only be gone for a couple of years until the war ended, but we know what Communist-sympathizer and “Uncle Joe’s” buddy FDR did at Yalta.
The Dresden story also needs to be told, full of Baltic people and other refugees, women, children, who were murdered in the worst possible way.