Soviet Russia was on trial.
In a glittering hall of Brussels' Egmont Palace, six black-robed men and one woman sat in judgment over an entire regime. They had been chosen by the International Commission Against Concentration Camp Regimes, an organization of 100,000 survivors of Nazi camps, to decide whether the Russians run a similar system. Said Prosecutor David Rousset, a French writer and former Nazi prisoner: "For the first time, the men who lived at Auschwitz and Buchenwald are going to hear men who lived through Kolyma and Magadan."
For four days the judges, all laymen and former Nazi camp...