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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

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Past and present The future Disinformation Totalitarianism

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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