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This chapter suggests that the success of Orwell’s depiction of a society, based on concepts like thoughtcrime and doublethink, was not just because of his vicarious observations of life in the Soviet Union, nor even watching Communist sympathizers contort reality to fit their ideology, but rather his experiences in wartime Britain, where he worked for the BBC World Service broadcasting to India, defending a war for democracy and against fascism to several hundred million people under a colonial rule.
Tribune , Jan. 2003.
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Williams, I. (2017). The Persistence of Pessimism, Oceania 20 Years After Nineteen Eighteen-Four . In: Political and Cultural Perceptions of George Orwell. Political Philosophy and Public Purpose. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95254-0_7
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