Yes.
I have also heard that many in Ukraine supported the Germans, until the SS showed up and started rounding up and killing people.
It was the retaliation killings that turned the general populace against the Germans; again, it was openly admitted after the USSR collapsed. The USSR was a giant prison, and less than a decade earlier Stalin had killed millions in Ukraine (the Holodomor).
One need look no further than the treatment of returned POWs after the war to understand Stalin.