`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.     == `