‘Big Brother is a capitalist’
NZPA-Reuter East Berlin
“1984,” George Orwell’s novel, accurately portrays the capitalist West, not the communist East, according to the East German Deputy Culture Minister, Mr Klaus Hoepcke. Orwell's “Big Brother” pictured "the multinational concerns and their bloodhounds, that crush national sovereignty, order the removal or installation of presidents, plunder economies, dictate disinformation,” Mr Hoepcke said in the ideology monthly, “Einheit” (Unity). “The grotesque images in the book apply to the characteristic features of capitalist reality,” and efforts to use “1984” for anti-Communist propaganda were “an expression of the historic defensive of capitalism,” he said. The novel is banned in East Germany.
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Press, 15 February 1984, Page 20
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