Nice russophobia porn, but in reality Russia will be rightly celebrating the 77th anniversary of victory over the Nazi enemy (as well as our enemy, although I don’t recall any victory parade in the US or any thanks given to our Russian allies for their sacrifice to defeat our common enemy.
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Orwell inserted phrases in “1984” such as “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia”. The reality being that “1984” is an anagram for “1948”, and Orwell wasn’t writing about a dystopian future, but a dystopian present.
Did Russia thank us for wearing down Japan while fighting a two front war, only so they could declare war on them mere days before they surrendered, for the sole purpose of annexing the Kurile Islands?
The whole scene of switch of going from being at war with Eurasia to being at war with Eastsasia with barely a blink was a jab at his fellow socialists who were happily supporting Nazi Germany when they were allied with the Soviet Union in slicing up Poland. Then Nazi Germany became enemy number one when they attacked the Soviet Union, showing that the British socialists were not ideological pacifists or inherently antifascist. Instead they were mere puppets of the Soviet Union.