Posted by Mike on August 22, 2002 at 00:47:14:
In Reply to: Re: Misinformation - neonazi telling you lies Keeley posted by wal on August 21, 2002 at 03:39:30:
Um no... it's not set in Russia. Orwell's uses the figure of Goldstein the same way that Stalin used Trotsky as the object of the two minute hate and a convienent figure on which to lay the blame of the regimes own failures.
Just as he used Oceania as a metaphor for all totalitarian states, Owrwell uses the historical figure of Trotsky to illustrate the regimes methods of propoganda.