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Between 1917 and 1953 the population in Soviet Union suffered enormous traumas. Their transgenerational transmission is considered by the Author in her own life experience, in her patients and in the whole society. In a totalitarian regime underground culture or that of former times played an important role as witness of truth and human dimension and, working as a container - a second skin - which supported mental survival. Why is it later so difficult to face such traumas and disclose the legacy of terror?