Introduction to the Article:
History is written by victors
We humans very rarely question the validity of most historical facts and assume we are being told the truth.
Orwell’s in his novel warns is if a state can control the history books they can skew the past to make it out however they want it
We will see Orwell’s novel is more than a warning by comparing aspects of it to the USSR.
Brief about the USSR
State the structure and maybe its disturbing similarity to 1984
we may see the dangers the winners may have by writing the books

Conclusion
Orwell


Block about alterations of History and the USSR: A piece explaining the nature of history explaining the history using.
Eg how history is made History is written by the victors -Winston Churchill
Talk about that Orwell’s strong stance on the influence of History and how this has lead to features that we see in his novel Nineteen eighty-four
Talk about the structure of what we are going to about
Overall Idea
Orwell Warns us the effect of altering the past can have on the masses and how this relates to the USSR.
1)How a state such as Oceania can alter their History.
2)Orwell’s warning is a reality in the USSR and how this parallels to the USSR
3)How the USSR shows the power changing small things such as photos or words can have on a population.
4)
Paragraph 1: The way the alteration of History is seen in nineteen eighty-four by Wistons edits.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. Talk about that this means Which also reinforces the fact Churchill statement.
This controls what the population knows about the outside world leading them to think they are better off (which will be talked more about later)
This is a contour mechanism
Then go into good detail about it means the state can lie with no proof to prove them wrong.
This is why we can’t believe everything
Today we do have the Internet, with lots of people giving lots of different opinions, but we still need to ask questions of anything we read: who is behind the information? Who is it that wishes us to be manipulated?
Briefly make a statement linking to the next paragraph

Paragraph 2: Briefly spend the first bit of the paragraph restating what the political ideology of the USSR was.
USSR like Oceania altered there statistics and events in History as a way to control there people.
If we take a look at the USSR we can see the disturbing similarities between it and OceaniaSoviet authorities may have completely “invented” statistical data potentially useful in historical research (such as economic data invented to prove the successes of the Soviet industrialization)
A famous example is Stalin used a large group of photo retouchers to cut his enemies out of supposedly documentary photographs[…]Yezhov fell from Stalin’s favour after being usurped by one of his own deputies.
The party needed to remove the people who could see through there lies in order to maintain there control. Starlin did this by removing all photos and articles about former “traitors”. This is a demonstration of them using there power over history so no one could speak out and question the party, therefore, raising awareness to the unaware. Used like nineteen eighty-four for Control
Real-world proof that Orwell’s warning in Nineteen eighty-four is more than fiction.
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The endless purges arrests tortures and vapourisations are not inflated for the crime but merely the wiping out of persons who might commit a crime sometime in the future
Whatever happened you vanished and neither you nor your actions were ever heard of again. You were lifted clean out of the stream of history.

Paragraph 3:
Idea: History is a reference point to thought and morals as it allows people to compare and contrast. Without it we only see what we are shown. Show what the lack of this looks like

the alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons[…] tolerates the present-day conditions because he has no standards of comparison
Why the banned things like Relioous acts as it showed the people believed in something greater than the party
The Purpose of newspeak
if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.

“History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it“.- Howard Zinn

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then

Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad

Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed