George Orwell's great book came out 60 years ago In the Soviet Union, Orwellian dystopia was equated with subversive literature, "defaming the Soviet state and social system." And it is no coincidence: Oceania, in which the action takes place, and its leader - Big Brother - were as if written off from the USSR and Joseph Stalin (the novel was released in 1949). However, not only. From Nazi Germany, from Maoist (and in some ways even today - p. 27) China, from today's North Korea - too.

In the USSR, Roman-Generation became proof of the prosecution Resistance mechanics. In the ranking of enemy literature of the Soviet secret police, the novel “1984” was at the top of the list - along with the “Gulag Archipelago” Alexander Solzhenitsyn and “Will the Soviet Union be allowed until 1984?” Andrei Amalric. There was a real hunt for these books: they were seized during searches, hemmed to business articles, included in the conviction.

Gordon Brown on the eve of the resignation Gordon Brown: On the edge of the abyss. A few months ago, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was called a man who will save the world financial system from the crisis. Two months ago, he reveled in success, chairing the “Big Twenty” summit in London. His Labor Party has most places in the UK parliament (350 out of 646). And the following universal elections were to be held only in May 2010.

St. Petersburg Economic Forum ends the political season Previously, this invisible curtain fell when the State Duma went on vacation. Now the calendar of what was once the Russian parliament is of no interest to anyone. At all venues, the executive branch is the soloist. And no one but her. Petersburg forum in the "presidential" format is held for the fourth time. During this time, a tradition has developed to demonstrate unbridled optimism on it.

A new reading of Orwell In Soviet times, 1984 went into quotes: It was a novel about our life. The New Times re -read it with a fresh eye “On each site, the same face looked from the wall. The portrait was made in such a way that wherever you got, your eyes did not let you go.

How they broke the Soviet intelligentsia The Ministry of Love. So in the novel "1984" is called to perfection the torture bolt. It is to force everyone who got there to love a big brother All the confessions that are pronounced here are true. We make them true ... We do not destroy the dissenter because he rebelled at us, never kill him while he resists. We turn him on the path of truth, master him with heart and soul, remake him.

On the relationship of the writer with the country of Soviets Legally the novel "1984" was published in the USSR in 1988. However, he was translated into Russian back in 1959-on the instructions of the ideological department of the CPSU Central Committee. What attracted Orwell Soviet “Ministry of Truth” - The New Times was interested in In fact, the works of Orwell could appear in Russian somewhere in the late 1930s. Catalonia. 1936.

"What is they written by a pen for them, it will be washed off tomorrow our blood." 20 years ago there was a tragedy on Tiananmen Square. This happened at the very beginning that yesterday and today's guards and pacifiers with enduring nostalgia are called “Chinese perestroika”. Today, their choir flows and due to that our problems and unprofiting are caused by the unwillingness to go along the Chinese path. Recall what the path is and how it began.

Harry Kasparov proposes to revise the Basic Law In 1992, on June 12, when the country first celebrated the day of the adoption of the Declaration of the State Sovereignty of the RSFSR, which subsequently dried up to the day of Russia, we were citizens of the state who firmly embarked on the path of freedom. It seemed that no one would drive us from him. Shot down. And we go in the opposite direction.