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His father was in an NKVD destruction battalion in WW2. His job would have been to terrify Soviet citizens to stop them siding with the Nazis. Thousands of people were shot out of hand, with no process or investigation, just the merest suspicion that they might not be loyal. Criminals were recruited into these regiments. Women and children were massacred. You've got to wonder what impression this made on Vlad.