II. Questioning Those Directly Responsible for Such Immense Misfortune: the Supreme Leaders of the Soviet Union and the Captive Nations

This outcry will be voiced above all against those directly responsible for so much pain accumulated for such a long time, over such immense expanses, and upon such and impressive number of victims.

Unless logic has totally deserted human events (a tragic desertion which history has witnessed repeatedly in epochs of total decadence like this end of century and millenium), the victims of so many calamities will unite their clamors to demand that the world bring those responsible to justice.

Those responsible have been preponderantly the higher echelons of the Soviet Communist Party, which have always exercised the highest authority in the Soviet hierarchy, superseding even that of the communist government. The heads of the communist parties and governments of the captive nations have been analogously responsible.

These leaders could not have ignored the untold disgrace and misery inflicted upon the masses by the communist doctrine and regime.  Despite this, they did not hesitate to spread this doctrine and to impose this system