In Belarus, the forgotten story of the "kids from France" Like millions of others, mainly from continental Europe but also Britain and the United States, Yanina Stashko's family was persuaded by a post-war propaganda drive, to leave their native country and start a new life in the Soviet Union, some 70 years ago. But when they got there they lost their previous nationality, found themselves impoverished at best and victims of political repression at worst. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES