George Orwell / Eric Arthur Blair born in British India, grew up in England, from 1922–1927 served in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma (Myanmar), an experience that filled him with guilt and disgust for colonial repression

lived among the poor in London and Paris, documenting homelessness and low-wage labor

fought in the Spanish Civil War with the POUM militia; being hunted by Stalinist forces radicalized his anti-totalitarian worldview

During WWII he worked for the BBC Eastern Service; not an MI5 agent but provided opinions about suspected communists to the Information Research Department

Animal Farm (1945) - an allegory of Soviet Union: a fable where revolutionary ideals decay into tyranny under the pigs’ rule

Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a totalitarian state where the Party controls reality itself through surveillance, propaganda, and engineered language.

Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia in state of "perpetual war"; history is rewritten on-the-fly

Telescreens combine television and camera: omnipresent devices that both broadcast propaganda and watch citizens continuously

Doublethink is the mental discipline of holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously

The System embodies inversion: Peace (war), Love (torture), Plenty (rationing), Truth (lies). Truth is whatever the Party declares as true

The 2 minutes Hate & mass rallies channel collective emotion, transforming fear and frustration into ritualized obedience

новояз ("novy jazyk" - "new tongue") refers to the systematic substitution of euphemisms by Russian state media and officials to shape public perception, obscure realities, and reinforce government narratives. Examples: "Special Military Operation" (специальная военная операция); "Liberated Territories"; Gesture of Goodwill (жест доброй воли) etc.