Silencing What Was Seen

"At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned people and executed them to keep them from doing something.....They improsoned all those POW's, of course, not for treason to the Motherland.... They imprisoned all of them to keep them from telling their fellow villagers about Europe. What the eye doesn't see, the heart does not grieve for."

- Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago.