Article 5ZHPC Orwell’s 1984 was about liberalism, not totalitarianism, claims Moscow diplomat

Orwell’s 1984 was about liberalism, not totalitarianism, claims Moscow diplomat

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Pjotr Sauer
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Maria Zakharova says idea book is about totalitarianism is one of the biggest global fakes', in claim disputed by Russian translator

George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984 was written to describe the dangers of western liberalism - not totalitarianism - a top Moscow diplomat has claimed.

For many years we believed that Orwell described the horrors of totalitarianism. This is one of the biggest global fakes ... Orwell wrote about the end of liberalism. He depicted how liberalism would lead humanity to a dead end," Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for Russia's foreign ministry, said during a public talk in Ekaterinburg on Saturday.

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