In other areas he gets a bit off track, concerning himself with repeating the names of Jews in the Soviet leadership. Hoffman even wastes time by listing Generals in the Soviet military with Jewish wives. Just as this irrelevant material threatens to disrail an otherwise wonderful book, Hoffman pulls back. In true revisionist form, Hoffman subverts any and all paradigms. He declares, I don't know how a collection of diehard doubters and sarcastic skeptics is somehow transformed, in the eyes of the media, into a brigade of goose-stepping automatons.
Revisionists are the least likely candidates for such a formation.
If we step to the beat of any drummer it is that of Thoreau. It is this undying spirit of individualism which exemplifies the best in revisionism. With this volume, Hoffman joins a proud tradition of honest non-conformists who have struggled for what they believe is right.