During the US-inspired Cold War, the West resurrected this Nazi German myth as a means to discredit Stalin and the Soviet achievement of defeating Germany Nazism during the Great Patriotic War (1941-45), which saw the deaths of between 27- 40 million Soviet men, women and children.
His lies about the Soviet Union are many and numerous and would justify a separate study. Suffice to say, Hitchens was a bourgeois Trotskyite who dedicated his life to destroying any genuine working class revolution by reducing all politics to the fetish of the capitalist individual.
THE SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 