> 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.
