http://slate.msn.com/?id=2069345 Anne Applebaum reviews Christopher Hitchen’s review of Martin Amis’s Koba the Dread. She writes: (a) that the “the horror of Soviet camp guards lay not in their sadism but in their total indifference to prisoners’ fate”; (b) that “totalitarianism … was the product of institutions, of bureaucracies, and above all individual choices and decisions of millions of people” (i.e. individual Russians—and not just Stalin—were responsible); and (c) Amis’s decision to criticise Hitchens in particular is peculiar as well as unfortunate since Hitchens, a Trotskyite, well knew the horrors of Stalinism. 21:09