Did George Orwell Say: II

Did George Orwell say ‘The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history’?

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No: this is not an Orwell quote Although the argument, roughly, is one used in Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the sentence should not be attributed to George Orwell.

This column examines how the misunderstanding came about.