As George Orwell warned more than half a century ago, a dictatorship that can enforce its definition of key terms on the population provides itself with an incredibly powerful defense because all too often people use the terms it has redefined for its own purposes in discussions about it and are unable to adequately understand the situation.
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Paul Goble: A brief dictionary of Putin newspeak
A screen shows Russian President Vladimir Putin attending a plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg on June 4, 2021.
