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Old 01-03-2016, 10:37 PM
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Post Think globally.
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Originally Posted by tomwed View Post
Has anyone been arrested and punished? Like in the book.
You are apparently thinking locally rather than globally. Remember the locale for 1984 was not the United States.

Examples of arrest and punishment? The Soviet Gulags and Chairman Mao's "re-education" camps leap to mind.

In a similar vein, the post-war (WWII) Soviets were known to have re-written history books and altered historical photos to make certain people into "non-persons."
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