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Written by George Orwell
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From the totalitarian point of view,
history is something to be created rather than learned. A totalitarian state is
in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has
to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible,
it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this
or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually
happened.
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