Title: Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia
Headings: Political geography of
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Sourcing
Oceania
Eurasia and Eastasia
International relations
Analysis
Contemporary interpretations
Influences
Comparisons
Sources

Content: At any moment, however, an alliance could shift and the two states that had previously been at war with each other may suddenly ally against the other. When this happened, the past immediately had to be re-written—newspapers retyped, new photos glued over old—to provide continuity. In many cases that which contradicted the state was simply destroyed. This occurs during Oceania's Hate Week, when it is announced that the state is at war with Eastasia and allied to Eurasia, despite the assembled crowd—including Winston and Julia—having just witnessed the executions of Eurasian prisoners of war. Winston describes how, when the announcer spoke, "nothing altered in his voice or manner or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different". Orwell describes the war as one of "limited aims between combatants who are unable to destroy one another, have no material cause for fighting and are not divided by any genuine ideological difference". These wars, suggests the writer Roberta Kalechofsky, "sti