goldsnow,
Well...when Orwell wrote about the Soviet Union, he
called the book "Animal Farm". That was the Ruskie
police state. When he took a look at the future and
wrote about a nation that used language to control
its subjects, I think he was aiming at England. Note
how the English were the most willing to use the language
to define the war against Yugoslavia. Remember old
Jamie Shay? What a mouthpiece of Orwellian Doctrine.
I love some of his one liners...when asked about the
attack on a Yugoslavian Television Station and how
that constituted a war crime in the Geneva Convention,
Jamie Shay simply replied that it was "A Ministry of
Propaganda". He could massage the language like nobody
I ever saw. After Kosovo was "liberated" by NATO and
the Albanians began to attack and kill Serbs, Gypsies,
and Bosniacs, a reporter asked Mr. Shay what was going
on. Mr. Shay said that the Serbs had "abandoned" their
homes (as opposed to Albainians who had been ethnically
cleansed of them). Of course, all the Albanian violence
against Serbs (and others) since the war has been given
the designation of "revenge". The fact is that Albanians
had been attacking and killing Serbs, Gypsies, Jews, and
other ethnic groups in Kosovo for almost a decade.
Jamie Shay is a master of "double speak" and "double think"
as the evidence seems to indicate.
As for the days in Russia...yea, I don't think I'd last
long in a police state...in fact, I would probably be
the first to go!
-John |
