Wow. I've been watching the first and second parts in a 10 part series about Soviet Russia. It basically begins right as Lenin dies. I always knew Stalin was a butcher but I didn't know how genuinely insane and deeply evil the man really was. It's amazing that anybody survived to keep the nation populated. My great grandfather came to the United States from Ukraine. The town he left either doesn't exist anymore or has been renamed. My uncle who keeps the family records and tree cannot get any information about this town where my great grandfather was born. We have a copy of his birth certificate which is in Russian and German because his parents were from Germany and had relocated to Ukraine, but that's it. After watching this documentary, I can't blame people there for not wanting to give any information out. Between Stalin and Hitler with the religious, political and racial purges in that area, it's amazing people still live in the area and didn't flee for their lives long ago.