In 1937, George Orwell was shot in the neck by a sniper during the Spanish Civil War. The bullet missed his artery by millimeters. He fell to the ground choking, certain he was about to die, not for fame or country, but for truth.

That moment changed him forever. He had gone to Spain to fight on the side of the Moscow-sponsored Republicans. However, what he found was stab-in-the-back betrayal, censorship, and propaganda.

He watched Republicans lie in the name of justice, and he saw the Republican regime’s media twist facts until the truth disappeared.

When he recovered, he carried the scar for the rest of his life, a thin reminder of how fragile both the human body and honesty could be.

That wound bled into every word he ever wrote. In Animal Farm, he exposed how revolutions rot into tyranny.

In his novel, 1984, he gave the world its greatest warning: that truth itself could be destroyed, rewritten, and replaced by the voices of power.

But Orwell’s brilliance wasn’t born in theory or politics. It was born in poverty and pain.

He scrubbed floors in Paris kitchens. He lived among coal miners in northern England to understand the working class. He wandered through the alleys of London, invisible, hungry, watching how society treated the forgotten.

He believed that writing was not a career; it was a moral act. ‘In a time of deceit,’ he said, ‘telling the truth is a revolutionary act.’

When he wrote 1984, he was dying of tuberculosis, coughing blood as he typed through sleepless nights on a cold island in Scotland.

Friends begged him to rest, but he wouldn’t. He said he had one more truth to tell before his voice gave out. And when it finally did, he left behind more than novels. He left a mirror, one that still reflects our world too clearly.

George Orwell didn’t just write about oppression. He lived through it. He survived it. And with the scar on his neck and fire in his words, he made sure we could never say we weren’t warned.

George Orwell, the prophetic writer and journalist, summed up mainstream media thus: 

“At any given moment, there is orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question.  

It is not exactly forbidden to say this or that or the other, but it is not done. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. 

A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in highbrow periodicals.”

Most, if not all, conventionally published material is endlessly recycled victors’ propaganda.  Thanks to online publishing, real history shunned or censored by mainstream media and publishing houses is now available for those who demand a more balanced appraisal.

ORWELL SPEAKS UP FOR HITLER

“I SHOULD LIKE to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Adolf Hitler. The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs.

He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds.

One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny that he can’t win, and yet that he somehow deserves to.” ~ George Orwell, British writer.

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‘Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented (by mainstream media) not as a war but as an act of self-defence against a homicidal maniac.’ George Orwell

‘Football and beer filled up the horizon of their minds.  To keep them in control was not difficult.’ – George Orwell.

‘The more a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who say it.’  – George Orwell.

The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt….

‘To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary.’: George Orwell in the book 1984. You can and should share this story on social media: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

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