BBC NEWS | Europe | Huge cross marks Stalin purgesYulia Shcherbakova - now in her 70s - wanted to explain her personal tie to Stalin's terror.
"It's terrifying to think back. I remember people in our small house being arrested - people who lived below and above," she told the BBC.
"I was seven when my neighbour, a priest, was taken away - he disappeared without a trace. And everyone was afraid to mention his name." Never forget, always remember that Stalin and Communism killed more than the Nazis.