"[T]here is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years."
— George Orwell

January 1, 1970

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George Orwell
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Letter to Humphry House, (11 April 1940). The Collected Essays, Journalism, & Letters, George Orwell: An age like this, 1920–1940, Editors: Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus. p. 532.