George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, set in an imagined future where totalitarian rulers deprive their citizens of all agency to maintain support for their senseless wars, has topped electronic bestseller lists in Russia.
, set in an imagined future where totalitarian rulers deprive their citizens of all agency to maintain support for their senseless wars, has topped electronic bestseller lists in Russia.
Orwell said he had used Stalin’s dictatorship as a model for the personality cult of the all-seeing Big Brother, whose “thought police” force cowed citizens to engage in “doublethink” in order to believe that “War is peace, freedom is slavery”.from the public sphere in his two decades in power, as well as rehabilitating the memory of Stalin.
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