>>8668784girlfriend's grandfather fought in ww2, came back a mess and couldn't reintegrate in the society, used to redirect his anger towards his wife who he viciously beat for several years until he succumbed to alcohol and eventually died. The madman built a special room in the attic of the house where he used to lock his wife and beat her for several hours at a time. Pretty fucked up shit to be frank. My own grandfather was taken prisoner in a soviet gulag in 45' after spending 3 years on the Eastern Front; he was released after 7 years, after which he had to literally walk back to Romania on foot. When he entered the country, the Romanian communist regime arrested him for treason (all the officers that fought on the Eastern Front received the very same treatment), and he was locked up in a penal facility for another 6 years, where he was forced to work for more than 14 hours a day, every single day. After he got released in the late 50s, he never could reintegrate in the newly created communist "utopia", as he was branded an "enemy of the state", alongside his entire extended family. He managed to live until the 80s, wrote two books about his war experiences, but never really talked about them with anyone from his family. Both of the books were released after the 89' revolution by his son, my uncle.
Pretty fucked up if you ask me. My mum and her siblings couldn't attend university because the entire family was branded as "impure" by the communist state (a branch of the family were hardcore monarchists, while the other branch were hardcore Iron Guard sympathizers). They all had a hard time during communism, their lands got seized and all of their goods got redistributed by the state. They were forced to live like rats up until the late 80s. Even now they still have a light form of PTSD whenever they talk about life during communism...
