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Orwell uses The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism’s textbook-like purpose and allusion to the USSR to convince the reader of the reality of the situation and his neologisms to assign an official title to brainwashing, in order to scarily display how possible constraining free thought can be. Emmanuel Goldstein states, “The key word here is blackwhite… It means the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This… is known in Newspeak as doublethink” (Orwell 212). With Emmanuel Goldstein and his book, Orwell alludes to the revolutionary against the Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky. He uses this allusion to remind the readers of the realistic twist

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