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Orwellian newspeak
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A brief dictionary of Putin newspeak
As George Orwell warned more than half a century ago, a dictatorship that can enforce its definition of…
Newspeak as editorial policy: the Kremlin goes Orwellian on Orwell
A key concept in Nineteen Eighty-Four is “Newspeak.” A language designed by the novel’s IngSoc [English Socialist] Party…
Five more disturbing revenants from Soviet past in Putin’s Russia
Even as Vladimir Putin claims that Russia is fated to have a great future, the Kremlin leader is…