From: mattfaunce@gmail.com

George Orwell, from his (non-fiction) essay, Looking Back on the Spanish
War.

"I remember saying once to Arthur Koestler, 'History stopped in 1936', at
which he nodded in immediate understanding. We were both thinking of totalitarianism in general, but more particularly of the Spanish civil war. Early in life I have noticed 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, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had
been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been
killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and
traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes
of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies
and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that
had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of
what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various
'party lines'."


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Matt

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