Agreed. My great grandmother died in a Gulag in 1984.

Her crime? My Great Uncle being a forest brother who were partisans fighting Soviets after they annexed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and my grandfather jumping ship in Germany and defecting "to the west"

Most fun childhood memory? Seeing mom punch out some low level bureaucrat from the Soviet Consulate who came to our farm to inform us of her death. And then demanded money for her "final expenses"

God I wish I had a camera that day.

My mom is 6'1" and towered over the fat bureaucrat