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Re: 1984

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:39 pm
by Deuce Bigolo
I hear their always on the look out for strange behavior(mad cow sufferers)
As long as your not married you should be safe

The laws might not exist but I wouldn't be popping my head up above the parapet and espousing any views i couldn't back up with concrete sources

You might face extradition to 1 of 10 European Countries of our convenience

Re: Stalin or Hitler

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:10 am
by jj
> > The total number of men women and children put to death or
> died
> > in Nazi run concentration camps during the war alone was put
> at
> > 12 million by the British prosecution at Nuremberg.
>
> And slightly less biased hisotrians have put the number at c. 9
> million.

Which is why I put that caveat in my first post. It IS important to know the
precise figure, but we mustn't let the 'numbers game' detract from the
horror.


Re: Stalin or Hitler

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:51 pm
by Trumpton
Sam Slater wrote:

> [quote]Yeah, and Irving was a historian too -
> inexcusable.[/quote]
>
> I don't agree with what Irving wrote, but I agree to his right
> to write it!

Who is currently serving time in an Austrian prison for writing these falsehoods.


Re: Stalin or Hitler

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:20 pm
by jj
Sam Slater wrote:
> Side note: Got 'Animal Farm' and 'Nineteen Eighty Four' from
> Amazon this morning. Only ?6.99 each hardback.

Apparently Orwell wanted to call it '1948' but his publishers wouldn't let
him.


Re: Stalin or Hitler

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:23 pm
by Pervert
Like all good sci-fi, it says as much about its own time as any possible future.

Re: Stalin or Hitler

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:37 pm
by jj
The setting is clearly a post-war city, with all the bombed-out buildings.
Shit, even the fags were called Victory [as in V's] !