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Greetings from Big Brother

Orwellian Patterns of the Soviet “Struggle for Peace and Disarmament”

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The “forces of peace” are in a continuous struggle against the “forces of aggression.” They are always and forever the champions of disarmament, but have to care for the protection of their political and societal achievements against the unending plots of their enemies, who feverishly crave for more and more armament. Their policies of “military détente” drive the proponents of “military adventurism” mad and make them double their efforts directed at preparing “predatory war.”

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Shlomo Giora Shoham Francis Rosenstiel

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© 1985 The Council of Europe

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Wettig, G. (1985). Greetings from Big Brother. In: Shoham, S.G., Rosenstiel, F. (eds) And He Loved Big Brother. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07831-8_7

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