ATRIUM promotes a new look at the built heritage left by totalitarian and autocratic regimes but maintains a critical and ethical repudiation of these regimes. The democratic basis for the route is indicated very clearly in Article 2 of the Statute of the ATRIUM Association:
"The Association's activity is inspired by the principle of the promotion of the values of democracy and cooperation between peoples as the foundation for peaceful and civil coexistence. In no case and in no way does the Association accept expressions and forms of historical revisionism, exculpation for authoritarian, dictatorial or totalitarian governments."