Stalin s regime was certainly much softer than the Hitler s one Stalin let millions people starve before the war probably more than the number of Holocaust victims was so generally Stalin s regime wasn t certainly much softer If we discuss 1944 in Lviv it was softer for certain groups the same for certain ones and harsher for other ones It wasn t liberation for all In Western Ukraine Red Army was welcome in 1939 Wehrmacht in 1941 and Red Army in 1944 Any of those dates started also a new period of underground activities