And his weary reaction is just "Why do you think that happened, where did you see this happen, who witnessed it" "Well that's the kind of thing commies do, and this barrage of deflecting questions is the kind of thing commies say"
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Orwell himself did not see it this way What he meant by it was that Goldstein was Trotsky and the Brotherhood were Mensheviks If you said "Okay but in most of the Western world, Stalin himself is obviously an exaggerated bogeyman", he would've gotten very very angry with you
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Because he was, to be blunt, Extremely Online (The "online" of the day being internecine conflict with other British left-wing intellectuals in academia and upper-class media) Like seriously earnestly worrying the West would fall to Stalin, or to Marxist-Leninist ideology
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cf. stranger things s2, where it's treated as totally normal that there might be a secret soviet base full of secret soviet murderers underneath small-town america and the local sheriff has to go kill them all
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