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What characters journey really bothered you? (lazysoci.al)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

you should read his journals, he thought Hitler was too big of a bafoon to ever become a real threat. 1984 was pretty close to just a Stalin documentary though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

🎶History rhymes, history rhymes

Bad things wait 'til we forget the bad times...

History rhymes, history rhymes

Don't you blink or you'll miss the same crimes... 🎶

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

True but it was also his view on something that could happen to england. His view on how an established totalitarian system modelled after Stalinism could take hold and look like in the UK.

Basically written as a sort of warning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

yeah the more i learn about ww2 the crazier the things become that i didn't know about