Because the horrors of the past are being swept under the rug and forgotten just as they were when they happened.
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
Koestler made his international breakthrough as a writer with Darkness at Noon. It depicted the fate of an old idealistic Bolshevik, Rubashov, a victim of Stalin's rule of terror. Rubashov is imprisoned in 1938 and persuaded to confess crimes 'against the state', of which he is innocent. In his own mind Rubashov knows he is guilty of working for system, that has cost too much suffering. "I no longer believe in my own infallibility," he admits. "That is why I am lost." The book was based partly on writer's own experiences a prisoner and on Stalin's trials. It revealed the totalitarian system and the decay of the Russian Revolution.
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