They were dying anyway. Starved by Russians. Farms, food, and freedoms were ripped from the people. If you were wealthy, they took your home, land, bank accounts, and titles, then shackled you to factories. If you were noble, it was to a train and east to a work camp where the work only finished with your last bourgeois breath. Academics were jailed. Poets conscripted. Artists had their hands cut off. And if you were young and strong, it was to the mines to break your spirit and back.