many of dolhinovs young men were working in vileika at the time , where jobs were available , but though they could easily have boarded numerous trains heading for the soviet union in time to escape , all of them decided to return to dolhinov for two reasons : to be with their families and , as one of them wrote , we believedthere was no way that the powerful red army could be defeated.1 another who considered , but rejected , running away asked , how do you abandon a house you have lived in all your life ?