Afraid to Speak Once Again – Orwell Today – by Irakli Zurab Kakabadze

Posted on August 5, 2012

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  • Afraid to Speak Once Again

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    by Irakli Zurab Kakabadze

    I remember growing up in the Soviet Empire and my father always warning me not to talk too much against the authorities on the phone. “They are constantly listening to us and we may be arrested” – he used to tell me and we would cover our phones with the pillows before talking about politics. Read more

Orwell Today

This article is a MUST – A chilling re-evocation of Orwell’s 1984 through the lens of the modern state aparatus of thought and life control in the Republic of Georgia. j.m.

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by Irakli Zurab Kakabadze

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear

– George Orwell

 

Piece originally published at Arcade

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