>>25152 Being in such a broken state do they even remember what happened to them? "I betrayed you" spoken by the characters here makes it sound so, but the book feels more that it's narrated than an actual realisation of the character (mind, I've only read it a few times).
It always suprises me to see people of those days had the capacity to imagine such things - be it fairy tales of visions of the future. My relation to history is merely black and white.
I thought I'd try looking for a version that hadn't been complete ruined by "colorization", but it seems there isn't one easily available, so that's grand. I also love how people constantly talk about 1984 like it was a warning to future generations, as if Orwell was not writing in a time of wall to wall totalitarianism, hatred and mass destruction.
Still, he never had to deal with pic related. As such it's hard to say if bearing witness to the unsettling rise, incredibly bloody fall and the deeply imperfect aftermath of European fascism, was really enough to impart the true terror of a total dictatorship.
