Public Figures in the West Did Little to Free the Victims of Soviet Slavery

Finally, the Discontented will turn to the public figures of the rich countries of the West and ask them why they did so little to free countless victims from the dark and endless night of Soviet slavery.

When this happens, we know well what these ever‑smiling, well‑rested, well‑groomed, and well‑fed public figures will jovially respond: "Come now! You blame us? We are precisely the ones who sent so much money to your governments, extended them so much credit, and bought the shoddy goods produced by your inferior industries. We did all this to lessen the pangs of your hunger, and here you are with this foolish reproach! " They will yet add: "Go to the UN, to UNESCO, and to so many other institutions that champion human rights, and see how many grandiloquent and Polished Proclamations we have issued throughout the West to protest your plight. Was this not enough?"

If these amiable Western potentates think they thus stifle the objections that will be inevitably directed to them, they are mistaken.