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Re:CCC Talk: All cops are broadcasting Obtaining the secret ... by HWR_14 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @08:11PM (#37204160)
> I wonder where George Orwell got his inspiration for 1984 from?

Stalin's USSR and Nazi Germany.

Re:CCC Talk: All cops are broadcasting Obtaining the secret ... by sitkack on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @03:22AM (#37219676)
True, but it was his exposure to the Soviet Communists while he was a Marxist in the Spanish Civil War.

Everyone should read, "Homage to Catalonia"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia