Don’t misunderstand. I’m not challenging or doubting your recollection. I think it’s accurate. I just didn’t remember it myself. I only remember the general gist of the story. I remember Big Brother surveillance (check), newspeak (check), the constantly shifting wars/allegiances (check), the rewriting of history (check).
I regarded 1984 as a warning. I just didn’t realize that the DS would use 1984 as a blueprint.
I'd read it two or three time and held it pretty much same as you.
...although over the past five or ten years (and particularly now) I've come to view it as an observation of existing conditions with a logical extension to the year 1984 as a culmination of the growth of "government" Orwell was seeing in the late 40's. (Although I doubt that Orwell could have even imagined that his "boot in the face" would come from Facebook posts and "Likes".