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To: LindyBill who wrote (40570)	8/28/2002 6:28:54 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Thus, Amis notes that at a 1999 public event in London, Hitchens's joking remark about his Communist past was received with affectionate laughter; a similar casual reference to one's past as a Nazi sympathizer would be unthinkable. Here is where I think Amis, and Young, are off the mark. Hitchens, a Brit, has no complicity in Stalin's monstrosities, despite the fact that he was a Communist. Similarly, a Portuguese fascist under Salazar cannot be charged with Hitler's crimes. However, every German Nazi is complicit in those crimes. Do you see the difference? The communist ideology isn't what killed people. Lots of perfectly nice, even good, people believed in communism. I knew some myself.