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The_General_Patton 244 points ago +247 / -3

He was British Intelligence, not psychic. He knew what the plan was and used a fake name to warn us.

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AsaNisiMAGA 207 points ago +207 / -0

He was writing in highly fictionalized form about the Soviet Union and other communist shitholes in 1948. Get it? They used to teach this with the book in middle school. It wasn't prescient. It was already happening and he observed it.

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OwnaLib87 137 points ago +137 / -0

This is it. We stopped teaching this here, and those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. This wasn’t a vision of the future, it was a fictionalized journal of his present, to warn against the cycle repeating.

Read the gulag archipelago if you want the non-fiction version of 1984.

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POed_Texan 2 points ago +2 / -0

I have never heard of this book. Thank you for introducing it to me.