My father was known by most as 'Fred'. 'Alfred' according to his British passport. However, his birth name was 'Albert' and he was born in Niitskovitsa village, Ingria, Russia. A deep sadness in his past he kept to himself: a past where his family were stripped of all they owned and made homeless. The change that Stalin brought affected the lives of everyone and for those specifically targeted life came to an end. There seemed no place for the likes of the Georgijev family in Stalin's Russia. The state programme of class genocide was carried out ruthlessly by an army of secret police who were accountable only at the highest level. Vassili and Alide were left with nothing other than a large family that had to be protected.