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Was Orwell Right?
by John Bennett
- Paper Presented to the Sixth International
Revisionist Conference.
Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
-- O'Brien in 1984
Every government is run by liars and nothing they
say should be believed.
-- I. F. Stone
Many of the predictions made by George Orwell in his
book 1984 in relation to "Big Brother" surveillance, corruption
of language and control of history have already come about to a great
extent in Communist countries and to some extent in the West.
The powers of security police in Western countries to intercept mail and
tap phones have often been extended, police agencies keep numerous files
on law-abiding citizens, and more and more public officials have the
right to enter private homes without a warrant. Many government
departments keep computerized information on citizens and there is a
danger that this information will be fed into a centralized data bank.
Attempts by law enforcement agencies to obtain more
information through informer schemes, through new law enforcement
agencies, and through new techniques such as computerization of information,
are understandable, but the cumulative effect of such Big Brother
activities is to make countries such as the United States, Britain and Australia increasingly totalitarian societies. The corruption of
language described in 1984 is widespread in the media today, with
"Newspeak" terms such as democratic, socialist, fascist, war
criminal, freedom fighter, racist and many other expressions being used
in a deliberately deceptive, propagandistic way to whip up mass hysteria
or simply to ensure that people can never achieve even an approximation
of the truth.
Control of the Past
The fact that almost all media commentary, book
reviews and feature articles about the book 1984 have ignored the crucial
role of controlling the past indicates that Orwell's prophecy has already
been partially fulfilled. The central theme of his book, the control of
history, has already been largely written out of references to his book
and has disappeared down the memory hole.1
The book's hero, Winston Smith, works in the Ministry
of Truth rewriting and falsifying history. The Ministry writes people out
of history -- they go "down the memory hole" as though they
never existed. The Ministry also creates people as historical figures who
never existed. Big Brother, who controls the State of Oceania, uses
"thought police" to ensure that people in the inner and outer
Party are kept under control. Oceania is at perpetual war with either Eurasia or
Eastasia. Alliances between these three states change without rational
explanation. "Hate weeks" are organized against Goldstein, the
leader of an alleged underground opposition to Big Brother, and hate
sessions are organized against either Eurasia or
Eastasia. O'Brien, a member of the inner Party, pretends to Smith that he
is part of the Goldstein conspiracy against Big Brother. He asks Smith
what he would most like to drink a toast to. Smith chooses to drink a
toast, not to the death of Big Brother, the confusion of the Thought
Police, or Humanity, but "to the past." Both Smith and O'Brien,
the main characters of 1984, agree that the past is more important.
Unfortunately, almost all of last year's media commentary about Orwell's
greatest book ignored the importance of the past and control of the past
as a theme in 1984. The extent of censorship of history is indicated by
suppression of the fact that Orwell originally considered giving the
title 1948 to his book because of widespread Big Brother tendencies
already in the year 1948, including control of history.2 It is also
indicated by the suppression of the fact that Orwell queried the
allegation that there were gas chambers in Poland.
Orwell wrote that
indifference to objective truth is encouraged by the sealing off of
one part of the world from another, which makes it harder and harder to
discover what is actually happening. There can often be doubt about the
most enormous events... .The calamities that are
constantly being reported -- battles, massacres, famines, revolutions --
tend to inspire in the average person a feeling of unreality. One has no
way of verifying the facts, one is not even fully certain that they have
happened, and one is always presented with totally different
interpretations from different sources. Probably the truth is
undiscoverable but the facts will be so dishonestly set forth in that the
ordinary reader can be forgiven either for swallowing lies or for failing
to form an opinion ... 3
Because of his experience in the Spanish civil war
that media reports of the conflict bore no relation to what was
happening, Orwell developed a great skepticism about the ability of even
a well intentioned and honest writer to get to the truth. He was
generally skeptical of atrocity stories.
It should be noted that Orwell worked for the BBC
for a time, and the Ministry of Truth is modeled to some extent on the
BBC. Orwell noted that the BBC put out false hate propaganda during World
War II, and controlled history by censoring news about the genocidal
Allied policy of leveling German cities by saturation bombing. Orwell's
beliefs about the control of the past, including the recent past, also
derived from his experiences in the Spanish civil war, where he found
that "no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain for the first time I saw newspaper reports which did not
bear any relation to the facts."4
The popular perception of history is based on
brainwashing by the mass media, indoctrination by the education system,
peer group pressure, self-censorship and television
"docudramas." Docudramas such as Winds of War; Tora, Tora,
Tora; Gandhi; Gallipoli; and Holocaust, which pervade people's 1984-like
telescreens, are a blend of fact and fiction. They give a clear and
believable, but usually completely misleading view, of historical events.
Such devices to indoctrinate and mislead people are not new.
Shakespeare's docudramas, such as Richard III, served a similar purpose.
The pervasiveness of television and widespread literacy make people more
susceptible to brainwashing by Big Brother agencies than was possible in
the past. The twentieth century is the century of mass propaganda. Due to
different systems of propaganda, people in different countries such as Russia, China, and the United States will have quite different beliefs about history. The
"Winston Smiths" in Communist countries who query approved
history are likely to be more harshly treated than their counterparts in
the West.
Book Censorship
and Treatment of Dissidents
Many of the books mentioned in this essay are, for a
variety of reasons, including direct censorship, trade boycott and
self-censorship by booksellers, distributors and librarians, difficult to
obtain. (However, many of them can be ordered from the Institute for
Historical Review.) Obtaining banned books and access to restricted
information plays a major role in Orwell's best-known work. One of the
most important developments in 1984 is when Winston Smith obtains a book
by Goldstein which had been effectively banned by the Thought Police.
Pressure from people with a thought-police mentality inhibits freedom of
speech in my own country, Australia, and has helped to restrict the circulation of some
books. Extreme cases of book censorship in the West have occurred in West Germany, where Professor Helmut Diwald was forced to delete
revisionist portions from his History of the Germans. Retired judge Dr.
Wilhelm Stäglich had his book on Auschwitz seized,
and the University of Tuebingen, which had granted him his law degree, deprived him of
it, ironically under a law passed by the Nazis. In Sweden, Ditlieb Felderer's writings were also recently seized
and he was imprisoned for the "thought crime" of querying the
Holocaust. His arrest and detention should alarm all people concerned
with civil liberties. Mr. Felderer, who has questioned the extent of
alleged German war atrocities and pointed out the extent of Allied war
atrocities, including one million civilian deaths from saturation bombing
of German and Japanese cities, was jailed because of his writings.
Following the precedent of Soviet authorities in dealing with dissident
thinkers, he was forced to undergo psychiatric examinations. The jailing
of Felderer for querying the establishment version of history and his
harassment by psychiatrists is clearly an attempt to intimidate him and
other free thinkers who have dared to ask challenging questions about the
past. The harassment or persecution of Felderer is part of a worldwide
attempt to silence revisionist writers. An unsuccessful effort was made
to silence Professor Robert Faurisson, a French revisionist historian, by
court proceedings in 1983 involving potential penalties of $200,000,
while moves are currently being made, supported by some so-called
historians, to remove Professor Arthur Butz from his teaching position at
Northwestern University. Canadian postal authorities denied the use of
the postal system to revisionist publicist Ernst Zündel for a time.
Various West German writers have been imprisoned, while a French
revisionist was assassinated a few years ago. Many civil libertarians,
such as the distinguished Jewish intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Alfred
Lilienthal, have protested against the attempts to silence revisionist
historians, while other so-called civil libertarians have been strangely
silent, preferring to defend only the civil liberties of those whose
views they agree with.
Gandhi and Bose
Henry Ford said that history is bunk, while Dean
Inge noted that historians have the power denied to almighty God of
altering the past. These statements are relevant to the film Gandhi,
which was mainly financed by the government of India and which won numerous best-film,
best-actor and best-director awards. It is widely accepted as an accurate
biographical portrayal of Mohandas K. Gandhi. The film portrays the
Indian political leader as a saintly figure virtually without fault and
suggests that he and his campaign of non-violent resistance to British
rule was the reason India gained independence in 1947. The portrayal of Gandhi in
the film of that name is a massive distortion. The film ignores Gandhi's
tyrannical habits, his hypocrisy, his appalling treatment of his wife and
children, his bizarre fixation on bowel functions, and his support for
violence in various wars. The film ignores Gandhi's views that sexual
attraction between men and women is unnatural and that he demanded
celibacy between even married members of his entourage. He was so
fanatical about his views on sex that he disowned his son Harilal for
wishing to marry, and repeatedly tested his own will by sleeping nude
with young women. The film Gandhi ignores the Mahatma's elitist
attitudes. He is portrayed as a champion of freedom and individual
rights, but in real life he was steadfastly opposed to granting
additional rights to India's millions of Untouchables. The film's portrayal of
Gandhi as a pacifist is incorrect. He supported the British military in
the Boer War and World War I. The so-called pacifist gave his approval to
men who, as he put it, were "using violence in a normal cause."
He gave his blessing to the Nawab of Maler Kolta when he gave orders to
shoot ten Moslems for every Hindu killed in his State. Gandhi's hypocrisy
and double standards (not mentioned in the film) are also indicated by
his opposition to modern medicine and his refusal to allow his wife to
receive a life-saving shot of penicillin when she was dying of pneumonia.
When he contracted malaria shortly afterwards, however, Gandhi accepted
for himself the alien medicine of quinine, and when he had appendicitis
he allowed British doctors to operate to save his life.
Perhaps the most serious distortion of history in
the Gandhi propaganda film is the total suppression of the role played by
Subhas Chandra Bose in the events leading to the independence of India. (This subject was examined in detail by Mr. Ranjan Borra
in an essay published in the Winter 1982 issue of The Journal.) At the
time that India attained independence, British Prime Minister Clement
Attlee regarded the armed insurrection led by Bose as a far more
important factor leading to independence than Gandhi's activities. However,
Bose is not even mentioned in the Gandhi film. The eminent Indian
historian, Dr. R.C. Majumdar, wrote: "There is... no basis for the
claim that the civil disobedience movement (led by Gandhi) directly led
to independence. The campaigns of Gandhi... came to an ignoble end about
fourteen years before India achieved independence."5
There is ample evidence to substantiate the fact
that the armed assault on British
India by Bose and his Indian
National Army (INA) during World War II was the decisive factor that
forced the British withdrawal from the Asian sub-continent. The exploits
of this army, when they became known, undermined the loyalty of the
Indian soldiers, or sepoys, of the British. These men were the mainstay
of colonial rule in India. Bose and the INA ignited the spark of a potential
military revolt within the country, which the British dreaded above all
else. This forced their decision to quit India honorably, while there was still time. As Majumdar wrote:
"In particular, the revelations made by the INA trial, and the
reaction it produced in India, made it quite plain to the British,
already exhausted by the war, that they could no longer depend upon the
loyalty of the sepoys for maintaining their authority in India. This had,
probably, the greatest influence upon their final decision to quit India."6
Perpetual War
for Perpetual Peace
The changing alliances between Oceania, Eurasia and
Eastasia described in 1984 are similar to the changing alliances between
the United
States, Russia, and China. The state of perpetual war described by Orwell is also
reflected in the three hundred wars since 1945, the thirty-seven armed
conflicts under way in 1980, and recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Central
America, and Grenada. Perpetual civil war also seems to prevail in various
multi-racial societies.
"Doublespeak" propaganda terms are used in
these conflicts. "Peace-keeping forces" are used to make war, invasions such as in Grenada are described as "landings," planning for
aggressive war is described as "defense strategy." The book
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace edited by Harry Elmer Barnes describes
the permanent war economy of the United States, the trickery employed by the U.S. government to enter World War I and World War II, and the
censorship of dissident historical views by the media, the book trade,
libraries, the curricula sections of education departments, and book
reviewers. The Dynamics of War and Revolution by Lawrence Dennis
discusses the need for preparation for perpetual wars to overcome
unemployment, boost profits, and use up excess capital. Foreign markets
are secured through war and foreign aid. Huge loans are made which cannot
be paid back by debtor nations such as Poland and Brazil.
The role of international banks in financing wars
and revolutions has been documented in numerous books, few of which are
available in bookshops or libraries. Dr. Anthony Sutton documented the
link between international finance and the Russian Revolution in Wall
Street and the Russian Revolution. The American Red Cross mission to Moscow in 1917 had more financiers than medical doctors. Wall
Street banks helped finance the revolution. This has been almost entirely
swept under the rug by historians since it cuts across conventional ideas
about the political left and right. Uncovering the Forces of War by
Conrad Grieb deals with the role of international financiers in
simultaneously bankrolling both sides in wars.
Organized Incitement to Hatred
The media in all countries are a vehicle for
whipping up hatred against Goldstein-like figures. The aim of hate-week
incitement is to divert attention from domestic problems, promote
national unity, and, where necessary, motivate people to kill other
people in wars. Hate-week campaigns in the Soviet Union
direct invective against the Chinese and Western
"imperialists." In China hatred is whipped up against the Russians, sometimes the
Vietnamese, and, until recently, the Americans. Iran and Iraq use their media outlets to control history, including
recent history, and to keep their respective captive populations in the
psychological state of hatred required to maintain their current war.
Other countries at war or on a war footing use similar tactics. Hate
propaganda is used in the civil-war conditions which prevail in many
multiracial societies such as Zimbabwe, Chad, Sri Lanka, Zaire, Ethiopia, Burma, Uganda and Cyprus, which are paying the price demanded by the fallacious
belief that multi-racial societies are viable.
The most pervasive hate campaigns in the West are
still directed against Hitler, who died almost forty years ago. Hitler is
treated in the Western mass media as a Goldstein figure with no redeeming
features. Hate sessions directed against Hitler and the Nazis are so
pervasive that a visitor from Mars might think that World War II was
still in progress. More than four hundred feature films have been
produced since 1945 with negative stereotyping of Germans, as well as
numerous television series and countless books. (By contrast, the Nazis
made only two or three anti-Semitic feature films between 1933 and 1945.)
Recent films include Sophie's Choice, Playing for Time, The Boys from Brazil, Marathon Man, and The Odessa File. Recent television
series include Winds of War, Holocaust, Kessler, and The Secret War. Many
more films, television series, and books are in the pipeline. The
cumulative effect of this media avalanche of negative stereotyping of
Germans is to incite ethnic hatred against people of German extraction of
whom there are more than twenty million in the United States. Civil-rights, human-rights and church groups which have
been quick to oppose racism and anti-Semitism have done almost nothing to
stem this incitement to ethnic hatred.
The 18-hour Winds of War television saga is a good
example of the docudrama blend of fact, fiction and fantasy
("faction") which is accepted by many viewers as objective
history. The Winds of War film is an instructive example of gross
distortion of history, of incitement to ethnic hatred, and of the use of
the electronic media as a vehicle for propaganda. Winds
of War was written by Herman Wouk, a devout Orthodox Jew. It's an
American-Jewish version of the last world war in which the persecution of
Jews is a dominant theme and war atrocities committed by the Allies, such
as the terror bombing of cities, are almost completely ignored. A
Washington Post reviewer wrote "if you miss the Winds of War you
will be adding 18 hours to your life," while another critic called
the series "essentially a cartoon, a child's history of the war with
all the stock characters of a Hollywood propaganda movie."
Wouk tries to make the Jewish people the axis around
which American and world history revolves. Without exception, he portrays
Jews as warm, sensitive, admirable people who are innocent victims of
mindless persecution. The Germans are stereotypes of evil who are barely
recognizable as real people at all. The German people are portrayed as
suffering from a national character disorder to explain why they admired
and supported Hitler, who is portrayed by Wouk as a raving comic-book
lunatic. If an 18-hour television series were to be shown at peak viewing
time with comparably derogatory portrayals of Jews, there would be a
massive protest about "anti-Semitism." The argument that films
such as Winds of War are made because of popular demand is incorrect,
since much of the demand is created by massive advertising and
promotional campaigns, often as expensive as the films themselves.
The book Dealing in Hate by Michael Connors examines
anti-German hate campaigns in both world wars. Falsehood in Wartime by
Arthur Ponsonby deals with the Allied propaganda lies against Germany in World War I. Second World War propaganda lies are
still being churned out on an almost daily basis. If the Germans had won
the last world war, and had influence in the media, we would doubtless be
having a series of hate sessions against England, America and Russia. If there is another world war, the victors will once
again write the history books and cowardly court historians, acting as
thought police, will ensure that the history of the war is not objective.
Finally, to make a fairly trite but important point -- if the conditions
described in Orwell's 1984 actually existed in the United States and Australia today, we would not be able to publicly attack official
security agencies or query establishment history. Western countries are
still the most free and, fortunately, freedom of
speech is still widely respected.
The Ministry of Truth
and World War II
The attempt to portray the Second World War as a
conflict between total good and total evil is slowly breaking down.
Despite decades of brainwashing by the media, censorship of revisionist
historians, and the cowardice of establishment court historians, a more
balanced history of the origins and course of the war is slowly emerging.
The Origins of the Second World War by A.J.P. Taylor establishes that
Hitler did not plan the war and that the Allies bore important
responsibility for the outbreak of the conflict. Germany's Economic Preparation for War by Burton J. Klein
establishes that Germany was spending a smaller percentage of its GNP on war
preparations than either Britain or France in the late 1930s.
The extent of Allied war crimes is slowly being
documented. Bomber Command by Max Hastings shows that saturation bombing
of cities was initiated by the British and that some 600,000 German
civilians were killed in the levelling of German cities. A review of Hastings' book in the London Spectator was headlined
"Devastating and Exterminating" and described the aerial
destruction of German cities and the killing of 600,000 German civilians
as "the greatest war crime of the Second World War."7 Other
Allied war crimes such as bombing of Japanese cities, the execution of more
than 12,000 Polish officers and other leaders at Katyn and elsewhere by
the Soviets, have also been documented, although the Katyn massacre is
still not widely known in the West. The forced repatriation of millions
of Russians and other Soviet subjects back to the USSR, resulting in many deaths, has also been set out in books
such as The Last Secret. The Nuremberg trials were illegal and yet another Allied crime. This is
discussed in Failure at Nuremberg, Profiles in Courage by the late President John F.
Kennedy, and Dönitz at Nuremberg by H. Keith Thompson.
However, for every book and film about Allied war
crimes there are literally thousands of books and films about German and
Japanese war crimes, particularly those dealing with the concentration
camps. The greatest war crime of the war, the bombing of German cities,
is never dealt with in films, apart from very rare exceptions such as
Slaughterhouse Five.
The central allegation made against the Nazis is
that they exterminated six million Jews during the war, mainly by gassing
in gas chambers. This claim has been established as false by Professor
Arthur Butz in The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, by Dr. Charles Weber in
The Holocaust, by Walter Sanning in The Dissolution of Eastern European
Jewry, by Dr. Wilhelm Stäglich in The Auschwitz Myth, by Dr. Robert
Faurisson in The Problem of the Gas Chambers, and by Professor Paul
Rassinier in Debunking the Genocide Myth. Due to thought-police pressure
and self-censorship by the media and book trade, these books are not
readily available. These books demonstrate that there was no plan to
exterminate Jews in World War II, no mass gassings in gas chambers, that
fewer than 500,000 people died in concentration camps and that most
Jewish deaths were due to diseases such as typhus. Numerous Jewish
writers, including civil libertarians such as J. Cohn-Bendit, C. Karnoouh
and J. Assons, accept the revisionist view of the Holocaust. Most
academics dealing in modern European history are too cowardly even to
investigate the revisionist evidence.
The Holocaust story is repeated ad nauseam to drum
up emotional support for Israel, and Zionist Jews have accurately described it as "Israel's number one propaganda weapon." Anti-Zionist Jews
such as Dr. Alfred Lilienthal describe the constant Holocaust
drum-beating as "holocaustomania" and point out that the
Holocaust has become a kind of new religion among Jews. Jewish
intellectual Noam Chomsky described Dr. Rubenstein's reactions to
Professor Faurisson's claims that there were no gas chambers as the reactions
of a religious fanatic. The Holocaust is so important to Zionist Jews
that Professor Friedlander has said that "the Revisionist School of historians, those who say the Holocaust never existed,
that it is a Jewish invention, are more worrying than countries'
political positions," while Professor H.
Littell has said "you can't discuss the truth of the Holocaust. That
is a distortion of the concept of free speech. The United States should emulate West Germany which outlaws such exercises." Despite cogent
evidence that revisionists are censored and persecuted, one so-called
intellectual recently stated that it is fashionable to claim that
Hitler's gas chambers did not exist.8 A five-page attack in the
Australian magazine Quadrant described revisionists such as Professor
Butz, Professor Faurisson and myself as "lone wolf
malcontents," the "John Hinckley Juniors of the
intelligentsia," and possibly more evil than Himmler and Pol Pot.9
As is customary with such attacks, no right of reply was allowed.
Down the Memory Hole
Chairman Mao, once the Big Brother of China, has
almost vanished down the Chinese memory hole. He has been virtually
written out of Chinese history. A similar fate has befallen Stalin in
official Soviet history. Hitler, on the other hand, has not been written
out of history. He is larger than life, appearing on our 1984-style
telescreens on a regular basis as a Goldstein hate figure He is needed to
assist in the portrayal of World War II as a war between total good (the
victors) and total evil (the vanquished). Hitler is also useful for the
Hollywood World War II industry which churns out a mind-boggling number
of films and TV series about the war. Dr. Alfred Lilienthal has pointed
out in The Zionist Connection that the three major television networks
(NBC, ABC and CBS), the major film companies, book distributors, and
influential newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington
Post, as well as influential news magazines such as Time and Newsweek,
are owned and controlled by Zionist Jews who use the evil Hitler image
and the Holocaust as propaganda weapons for Israel.
Some aspects of popular history are shrouded in
secrecy and receive little publicity. Thus, collaboration between the
Nazis and the Zionists in World War II, revisionist evidence about the
treatment of Jews during that war, the role of Subhas Bose in the
struggle for Indian independence, massacres by the Soviets at Katyn,
Vynnytsia and elsewhere, and the sinking of the passenger ships Wilhelm
Gustloff, General Steuben, and Goya, in each case with greater loss of
life than the Titanic, are seldom mentioned in the controlled media of
the West. Collaboration between the Nazis and the Zionists is established
by Jewish writers in books such as Perfidy by Ben Hecht, The Holocaust Victims
Accuse by M. Shonfeld, Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt and Zionism in the Age of the Dictators
by Lenni Brenner. The massacre of Polish leaders by the Soviets in 1940
is documented in Katyn by Louis Fitzgibbon, while the massacre of some
10,000 Ukrainians at Vynnytsia is covered in The Crime of Moscow in
Vynnytsia. The sinking of three passenger ships in the Baltic in 1945
with more than 18,000 deaths, mainly German women and children, is dealt
with in The Cruelest Night by Dobson. Anne Frank's Diary, A Hoax by
Ditlieb Felderer, which proves that Anne Frank did not write the famous
"diary," has been given the silent treatment by the media. In
case after case, historical truth has been consigned to the memory hole.
There has also been a fairly successful cover-up in
relation to the American entry into the Pacific war in 1941. The largest
ethnic group in America is of German origin. Resistance from this and
other groups had to be overcome to get the United States into the First
and Second World Wars. The attack against the Lusitania was used as a
pretext for entry into World War I. The attack against Pearl Harbor was
the excuse for entry into World War II. Both of these attacks involved
gross deception of the American public. The Watergate cover-up was
nothing compared with the cover-up over Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt incited
the attack with an oil embargo, and knew that the attack was coming. It
was not a surprise attack. The Pacific war began in deception and
cover-up and ended the same way. The Japanese offered to surrender prior
to the bombing of Hiroshima on condition that the office of Japanese
Emperor be retained, and after the bombing the
war was concluded with that condition accepted. Why then was Hiroshima
bombed? Most people's understanding of the Pearl Harbor attack is based
on popular portrayals such as the docudrama film Tora, Tora, Tora, which
presents the attacks as a surprise. The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor by
Rear Admiral Theobald, which examines the days immediately preceding the attack,
shows that it was not a surprise. It shows instead that Washington
authorities had ample foreknowledge of the time and place of the Japanese
attack, and that the failure to warn General Short and Admiral Kimmel was
due to Roosevelt's order that no warning be sent lest their preparations
for defense might deter the Japanese from attacking. Theobald also shows
that Pearl Harbor was denied a "Purple" decoding machine lest
the commanders there might independently decode Japanese messages and take
steps to ward off the attack.
Similar deceptions were used by the U.S. government
in the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the bombing of Cambodia, and in military
interventions in the Middle East, Central America and Grenada.
Some of Simon Wiesenthal's activities have likewise
gone down the memory hole. His wartime collaboration with the Nazis was
discussed by the former Chancellor of Austria, Bruno Kreisky, himself of
Jewish origin, and others. Wiesenthal's criminal "Nazi hunter"
role in persecuting innocent individuals such as Frank Walus and wrecking
their lives has been amply documented but has received only minimal media
coverage.
Down With Big Brother
Control of the past, Big Brother surveillance, and
the use of "doublethink" are much more extensive in Communist
and many third world countries than in the United States, western Europe
or Australia. People in the West can help combat Big
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