George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 13 - Part 2 Chapter 5

The story takes place in an imagined future. The current year is uncertain, but believed to be 1984. Much of the world is in perpetual war. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, which is led by Big Brother, a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the Party's Thought Police. The Party engages in omnipresent government surveillance and, through the Ministry of Truth, historical negationism and constant propaganda to persecute individuality and independent thinking.

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George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 13 - Part 2 Chapter 5

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 13 - Part 2 Chapter 5