Orwell's Wartime Collected Works (complete Works of Orwell)
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"A lie is a lie whether it is discovered or not." - George Orwell. World War II was a key event that profoundly affected Orwell's life experience and ideological dimensions. In this war that once pushed Britain into a desperate situation, this nation with a liberal tradition (along with Orwell himself) experienced rationing and material shortages, propaganda wars and press censorship, general war and indiscriminate bombing. From 1941 to 1943, Orwell even joined the Eastern Program Group of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), responsible for broadcasting to India. In the smokeless battlefield of the battle between the Allies and the Axis Powers for Indian hearts and minds, Orwell became a screw in the propaganda war machine. It can be said that without World War II, Orwell would not have written those three warning quotes in his "1984": War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. From the various texts Orwell left behind during the war, we can clearly see the evolution of his thoughts and the gradual fixation of the picture of the postwar world in his mind.
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