Lost generations… Lost in wars and unstable times. Lost in the maze of deceiving political regimes. The history of the cruel and deceitful communist regime in Russia was a long one—over 70 years. Four generations lived their lives in the communist country, four generations of my family, too.

My great grandparents, whom I can hardly remember, were starting their families in the newly born Soviet Republic, controlled by the Communist Party. After their land and house had been confiscated during “collectivization,” they had to endure years of hunger, hard work, deprivation—all for the sake of building a bright future for Communism, while the country was supporting the heavy apparatus of party officials, and donating goods and money to newly converted communist partners in the West and East. The confiscation of my great grandparents family farm was far from gentle. They were forcefully relocated from Russia to Kazakstan overnight—with all their money and possessions taken away, and with them labeled part of the “evil class of proprietors.”

My grandparents grew up during Russia’s huge industrial push, which cut open and devastated the land, leaving behind masses of exhausted soil and piles of waste all over the country. Their youth in the 1930’s was suppressed by fear of persecution and concentration camps dedicated to World War II, and then more fear and more persecution after the war. When Stalin, the notorious tyrant, died in 1953, people deceived by communist propaganda cried in grief upon hearing the news—they had lived with the lies and fear for so long that they could not imagine themselves without him.

My parents were born in 1950’s and were members of established communist groups. My father joined the Communist Party in the 1980’s, as it was a necessity for his career.

Finally, I had to join the elementary school communist organization “Octoberists” in 1989 as a natural stage of my education—and of my indoctrination by the state’s propaganda machine.

The communist regime lost its grip in 1990. With freedom of speech, the truth came out—there were millions and millions of Russians, four generations, feeling deceived, manipulated, lost.

What was lost in over 70 years of pointless battling and killing, however, was more than lives—the Russian people’s souls were torn apart by atheism, cultural nihilism and heavy blows delivered to traditional morality and belief.

A lot has been written about the lies and killing of the former communist regime in Russia, but many have agreed that the recent Epoch Times publication of the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party” is a profound study of the evil communist specter, helping to release people from a haunted past and a joyless future without faith or truth.