Word: doublethinkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results. The paratroop officers made a calculated decision to embrace the "political fiction" of the camp. They signed petitions condemning capitalism, accused themselves of monstrous crimes, made a noisy show of repentance, and even wrote a "progressive" hymn in which each word had a double meaning. They answered the doublethink of the Communists with doubletalk manifestoes that had "just the right amount of exaggeration to make anyone with any sense howl with laughter...
...doublethink of Communism, continues Tertz, has even more ominous overtones : "So that prisons should vanish forever, we built new prisons. So that all frontiers should fall, we surrounded ourselves with a Chinese Wall. So that work should become a rest and a pleasure, we introduced forced labor. So that not one drop of blood should be shed any more, we killed and killed and killed...
...workday was cut to ten hours. Husbands and wives were to be permitted their own room, the unappetizing mess halls were shut down, and commune members were allowed to keep such personal belongings as "houses, bicycles, clothing, blankets, quilts, radios, watches and bank deposits." There was even a typical, doublethink explanation for this return to capitalism. "The small freedom within the big collective-this is dialectical unity...
...happened over a U.N. speech by South Africa's Foreign Minister Eric Louw, who offered a provocative whitewash of his country's apartheid policy, previously condemned by the U.N. While he was clearly practicing doublethink in his contention that South Africa's rigidly repressed blacks are actually enjoying blissful freedom and enlightened education, Louw also uttered some truths and half-truths that hit the mark. Example: he stressed the Africans' high vulnerability to blandishments by the Soviet bloc, "which conveniently ignores conditions existing in Hungary and in the Soviet Union's occupied or colonial territories...
...face of it, Stalin was the loser on his investment of ?88 million sterling. But Stalin got a great hunk of Spain's gold reserve, and-in addition to the preparation for future political maneuvers-Stalin achieved his greatest triumphs of Communist propaganda, doublethink in action. "War for Peace" was his gimmick. It was not in vain that George Orwell fought in Spain. He served with the POUM, a Trotskyite outfit marked for liquidation, was wounded in battle-and thus lived to write 1984, in which "War Is Peace...