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