George Orwell, Call Your Office: Putin Is Trying To Turn ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ Against the West
The claim that Orwell’s classic lampooned not the USSR but its free foes comes as Putin’s regime cracks down on speech and expression and cranks up propaganda relating to its invasion of Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin’s Russia is here to correct the literary record. A spokeswoman for the Moscow strongman argued that George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” is not about the perils of totalitarian communism, but rather an indictment of the lies of the liberal West.
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