Yes, it must have been.
Basically they stole his finest young years from him. You know, the russians didn't really liked the party at Leningrad, so after the war they collected throngs of people from the east of Berlin with german ancestry and forced them to toil in mines and rebuilding their country. We are partially Schwabisch so he and around 70 other young boys from our village was deported to Siberia at the age of 16 or 17, I think. But was still enormously lucky ending up in a coal mine, and not in a mercury, sulfur or uranium mine. Only one out of 3 people came home, from that frozen hellhole. But, thanks to the old gods and the new
he did and being extra horny and all, quickly knocked up the first girl coming into his way, my execrable grandma', so appeared my dad, and eventually me, to bore you guys with my weird tales
Anyway, after months of living on boiled cabbage, I am pretty sure that the commissar's fat cat would seem pretty inviting to you too