Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling It was during this same week in 1949 (June 8), that George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” dystopian novel was made known to the world. His book was published after World War II and Nazism’s ruin and at the start of the Cold War. While World War II witnessed some of the most heinous crimes and twisted ideologies committed in the name of humanity, two Cold War superpowers were purging dissenters in their own empires and readying themselves for unimaginable holocaust-like events, even nuclear annihilation. Nazism, the Soviet Union and United States all promised to deliver utopias, or heavens on earth. In these egalitarian societies, people would…
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