Source: Common Dreams
by Jeffrey C Isaac
“Back in 1997, in the dim pre-history of American Greatness, David King published a book entitled The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin’s Russia. In almost two hundred pages of photos, it demonstrated the ways that Stalin’s Soviet regime literally erased historical events and persons no longer considered to be consistent with the dictat of The Leader. Such efforts involved extensive censorship and coercion, typically requiring the removal not simply of images and documents but the people to whom they were attached, who often wound up in a Gulag if they were lucky or in a ditch if they were not. At the same time, as the book shows, even more insidious than the coercion was the regime’s wholly cynical attitude towards truth, an attitude so well analyzed by George Orwell’s 1984 that it has come to be described by the colloquialism ‘Orwellian.'” (02/17/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gulf-of-america-totatalitarianism