But let us be generous. We will not shoot them. We will not pour salt water into them, nor bury them in bedbugs, nor bridle them up into a “swan dive,” nor keep them on sleepless “stand-up” for a week, nor kick them with jackboots, nor beat them with rubber truncheons, nor squeeze their skulls with iron rings, nor push them into a cell so that they lie atop one another like pieces of baggage – we will not do any of the things they did! But for the sake of our country and our children we have the duty to seek them all out and bring them all to trial! Not to put them on trial so much as their crimes. And to compel each one of them to announce loudly: “Yes, I was an executioner and a murderer.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Totally agree with the sentiment and the moral courage it expresses. It’s just really sad that nothing analogous to the Nuremberg Trials ever happened on behalf of the victims of the Soviet system and its hangers-on…
I wonder why. There is an answer, isn’t there?
Is it that … so many were culpable in the system of Communism – that the populace had become collaborators? And everybody just wanted to forget all about it?
There was a driving passion to expose/reveal Fascism for the unholy evil it was. Unfortunately, any such fervor to expose the evil realities of Communism was dwarfed by strong efforts to portray it as a noble ideology ruined by poor leadership. Those with an undying affection for communist dogma could not allow revelations similar to Nuremberg. To this day, most Americans have no idea of the scope of the inhumanity of Communism as practiced in the Soviet Union.
follow the money.