The half of my father's extended family that survived the Nazi genocide of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe ,endured the entirety of the Cold War under the oppression of the communist Soviet Union.
In the case of New York City: We know where that goes and what it does. Ever see the musical play "Fiddler On The Roof"? That is a lighthearted window on what Stalin's communist control of Ukraine was like in the post-WW-I communist takeover of what had been Russian society in Ukraine.
The unvarnished, harsh eality there is that Stalin starved millions of Ukrainians to death tin order to iforce their submission and mpose the Soviet model of society and steal "the means of production" for the State.
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