== Soviet Union and culture ==
[[Image:Hitchens,_Stanford.jpg |right|thumb|200px|Atheist [[Christopher Hitchens]] is known for having a history of heavy drinking.<ref>http://www.counterpunch.org/mccarthy02212003.html</ref>]]
Peter Hitchens is the [[ex-atheists|ex-atheist]] brother of atheist [[Christopher Hitchens]]. In an article entitled ''Britain needs God'' [[Creation Ministries International]] wrote about Peter Hitchens:
{{cquote|Peter wrote that his views changed slowly, as he came to see the fruit of [[atheism]]. Part of this realisation came when he was working as a journalist in [[Moscow]], during the final years of the [[Soviet Union]]. His depiction of this godless society was sobering. He wrote of the riots that broke out when the vodka ration was cancelled one week; the bribes required to obtain anaesthetics at the dentist or antibiotics at the hospital; the frightening levels of divorce and abortion; the mistrust and surveillance; the unending official lies, manipulation and oppression; the squalor, desperation and harsh incivility. Peter wrote of how traffic stops dead in Moscow when rain begins to fall, as every driver fetches wind-screen wipers from their hiding places and quickly fits them to their holders. Any wipers left in place when the car is parked are stolen as a matter of course.