The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, during a meeting in Yekaterinburg, called the “fake” the opinion that George Orwell described totalitarianism in the 1984 novel-Antiopia. Zakharov quotes e1.ru.
Zakharova at an event called “Battle of speakers” asked the question: “We are here in our country, we feel the upsurge of patriotism. And friends and relatives from abroad tell us that we are a reflection of the novel” 1984 “. What is them to them. answer? “.
The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry said: “For many years we believed that Orwell described totalitarianism. This is one of the global fakes. Orwell wrote about the end of liberalism. He wrote how liberalism will lead humanity to a dead end. He did not write about the USSR, he wrote about The society in which he lived, about the collapse of the ideas of liberalism. And you were imposed on you that he wrote about you. Therefore, tell me that he wrote not about us, but about them. You live abroad in a fantastic world where you can cancel a person. ”