silvia foti in chicago, welcome to hardtalk. hello, thank you.an extraordinary story to tell. let's begin by establishing why you chose to dig so deep into the life of your grandfather who, of course, was a man you had never met because he was executed by the soviets in 1910. so, why did you go so deep into his life? i kind of a sort of stumbled into it, to be honest. i got the story from my mother on her deathbed. and i thought i was going to write about a hero when i started this. i had no idea about his dark past. and it really only came about when i was burying my mother in lithuania and visiting the school named after him when the director very casually mentioned that, "your grandfather was accused of killing jews." and i almost fainted when he said that. because that was the very first time i had ever heard that. i was 38 years old, my mother had just died, my grandmother had just died, i thought i was going to work on a wonderful story about my grandfather, a world war ii hero who fought against the communists. and when he said that that w