⁸⁴ “an undifferentiated block of horrors” – Kundera, Testaments Betrayed, p. 255.

⁸⁵ “In their talk of forty horrible years” – Ibid., p. 256.

⁸⁶ “Amalrik is long dead” – Natan Sharansky, press conference, January 29, 1996.

⁸⁷ “a ritualistic code” – Milovan Djilas, “The Disintegration of Leninist Totalitarianism”, in Irving Howe (ed.), 1984 Revisited: Totalitarianism in Our Century (Harper & Row, 1984), p. 140.

⁸⁸ “it must show that power” – Franoise Thom, Newspeak: The Language of Soviet Communism, trans. Ken Connelly (Claridge Press, 1989), p. 118.

⁸⁹ “His inner world consisted” – Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Granta, 2018), p. 65.

⁹⁰ “She took it for granted” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 159.

⁹¹ “Our society is deeply ill” – Quoted in Gessen, p. 86.

⁹² “For Orwell the problem” – Labedz.

⁹³ “The worst kind of Big Brother” – Bob Brewin, “Worldlink 2029”, Village Voice, February 1, 1983.

⁹⁴ mechanical “brain” – Tribune, June 17, 1949, CW XX, 3649, p. 139.

⁹⁵ “smash the old canard” – David Burnham, “The Computer, the Consumer and Privacy”, New York Times, March 4, 1984.

⁹⁶ “If Big Brother could just get” – Walter Cronkite, “Orwell’s “1984” – Nearing?”, New York Times, June 5, 1983.

⁹⁷ “the complaisance, the eagerness” – John Corry, “TV: 1984 Revisited”, New York Times, June 7, 1983.

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¹ “The stubbornness of reality” – Quoted in Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World (Yale University Press, 1982), p. 255.

² “Orwell feared” – Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death (Methuen, 1987), p. viii.

³ “In the Huxleyan prophecy” – Ibid., p. 160.