"Echoes of Kafka...Show Trials Resonate With My Story." In Stalinist show trials, there was no due process, and evidence was disregarded; the machinery of power had already decided the outcome. The structure of injustice is eerily similar to Marie Odtojan's story, but even more sinister because it is covert, unsuspecting, and happening in a democratic country, Australia, within the civil courts of New South Wales under the guise of the Rule of Law.