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by state 4685 days ago
It seems to me that some people read those books and didn't understand them to be cautionary.
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coldcode 4685 days ago
Yeah they think the are a roadmap.
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alexeisadeski3 4685 days ago
It describes Stalinism as it already existed at the time.

1984 was neither prophetic nor cautionary; it was merely descriptive.

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