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 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 wehrmacht in and red army in any of those dates started also a new period of underground activities