Preface - the purpose of this blog

I’m starting this blog on the first anniversary of Guy Fawkes Day revolution for a reason. All those speeches and posts celebrating the fall of Sutler’s regime seem to omit an important point. In the previous century and in the early years of this one it was common opinion that totalitarianism and oppressive governments firmly belong to history, that Hitler’s and Stalin’s example was enough for the world not to follow in their footsteps. It wouldn’t, it couldn’t happen again.

But it did. Less than a century since the destruction of fascism and a mere few decades since the fall of the Soviet Union a single crisis proved to be enough to plunge this country into a decade of darkness and tyranny. I believe it’s because we had forgotten what living in a dictatorship really meant. 1984 was just a book, a parable, a theoretical warning, even as it crept into reality. A little known fact is that the notorious London’s CCTV system, now dubbed “the eye of Sauron” was set up not by Norsefire government, but by a nominally democratic government years before the rise of the fascists.

Perhaps the problem could be explained by the lack of a means to spread the word about the atrocities common for the 20^th century dictatorships. But now, as we have the Internet and social networks, we must use them to spread the word.

This blog is dedicated to just that. I’m currently working in the Nose and Finger archives to gather information for a history book on the so-called Reclamation and “follow-up” repressions. I have to thank the Provisional government for opening them mere weeks after the revolution. Now we can witness the truth of what Norsefire really was about, the truth hidden by the Mouth’s ubiquitous propaganda. I’m witnessing meticulously arranged records of the work of a terrifyingly efficient mass murder machine and, frankly, I’d fear for my sanity had I not the means of sharing this with you.

I’ll update the blog as soon as I find any noteworthy documents. Feel free to share them anywhere you like.