Those who reject socialism as an ideology on the basis of past experiences, disregard the fact that the social system build with the slogans of socialism should in no way be identified with socialism itself. The efforts of renewal in 1956,1968 and in the 1980s were based on the illusion that the East European systems can be reformed by „lifting in" certain elements of capitalism.

This is a testimony of the value of a document about Stalinism by a one time camp inmate philosopher. The writing reflects a whole historical period and the world of emotions and way of seeing of a whole generation.