Oleg Atbashian
2008-05-26 09:26:42
Tolik –
Yes, I agree that the USSR symbols are morally equivalent to the Nazi symbols. But while nobody puts swastikas on their T-shits (thank God for that), shirts red stars, CCCP, and hammers and sickles are quite common among young Americans. What does that tell you about the state of education and intellectual discourse in the academia?
And thanks for the links to the first Russian publications of 1984. I stand corrected – it happened in 1988 under Gorbachev. This link of yours shows the 1989 soft-cover edition I used to have.
http://www.orwell.ru/library/books/htm_file/002
The book must still be standing on a shelf in my parents’ home among my other books.
