I have to admit that I have been doing The Plague as more relevant to Lock down . I have just got up to "Declarez l'etat de Peste, fermez la ville!" It is really about the German occupation
1984 was written in 1948 - possible twisting of dates and no more (metathesis). The parallels are closer to Stalin for which it was intended - Goldstein is based on Trotsky - but cd be Corbyn I suppose. Two minutes Hate - could be any white power thread on AB - was about loathing Trotsky. Loathed but had been an ally, and hence the re-writing of history.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lenin_and_stalin_crop.jpg
"lthough Stalin did visit Lenin in Gorky frequently, the photograph has been heavily reworked: retouchers smoothed Stalin’s pockmarked complexion, lengthened his shriveled left arm, and increased his stature so that Lenin seems to recede benignly beside his trusted heir apparent. The reality was quite different"
I wanted to do the one where there is just a part of a pair of shoes where someone has been airbrushed
I have to admit I cdnt walk past the Uni of London senate house without thinking that was the basis for minitruth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_House,_London
the economic circumstances were maintained by a state of continuous war ( there wasnt one) and the Victory resaurants based on The British Restaurant - meal for 6d
winston smith remembering that her mother was carted away to a concentration camp - that has no parallel here
horses for courses I suppose