Kaylee

“Then again, some of us are very good at saying—and a shadow flits over our faces—‘WeII, yes, certain errors were committed.’ Always the same disingenuously innocent, impersonal form: ‘were committed’—only nobody knows by whom, You might almost think that it was by ordinary workers, by men who shift heavy loads, by collective farmers. Nobody has the courage to say: ‘The Party committed them!’ Our irremovable and irresponsible leaders committed them!’ Yet by whom, except those who had power, could such errors be ‘committed’? Lump all the blame on Stalin? Have you no sense of humor? If Stalin committed all these errors—where were you at the time, you ruling millions?”
― Alexander Solschenizyn, The Gulag Archipelago