I read an interview with a former KGB officer who said that, while the book was formally banned in the soviet union, it was circulated among national security types as a useful fund of ideas.
Do you have a link for the interview?
This was maybe a decade or so after the fall of the USSR, in one of those old fashioned paper magazine things.
Seeing the phrase "smart city" was the trigger for me, the stink of Newspeak and Doublethink is unmistakable. Shame on Eurasia, I mean, Eastasia..
Neither the Snowden leaks. In many countries, the became the blueprint for new security laws …
China has a very different view of personal liberty.