![]() ![]() Russia’s aggressive state media campaign to justify its invasion of Ukraine has drawn comparisons to Nineteen Eighty-Four and its most celebrated line: “War is peace. And you were made to believe that Orwell wrote it about you.” Zakharova suggested the audience member tell her relatives abroad: “It’s you in the west who live in a fantasy world where a person can be cancelled.” “He wrote about the society in which he lived, about the collapse of the ideas of liberalism. ![]() “Orwell did not write about the USSR, it wasn’t about us,” she said. Zakharova had been asked by a member of the public how to respond to friends and relatives abroad when they suggested that Russia was living in a modern-day replay of Orwell’s novel. Orwell is believed to have modelled the totalitarian government depicted in the novel on Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Published in 1949, the book is seen as a cautionary tale warning of the consequences of totalitarianism and mass surveillance. ![]()
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