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I have a small question for you. I am an A-Level student studying history and as part of our coursework we choose a subject which we feel is interesting and write a 3000 word report on it. My question is "How far a likeness is there between the Totalitarian state created by Orwell in "1984" and the Stasi police state in East Germany under Communism". I noticed on your website that you drew a comparison between East Germany and Orwell's creation and so wondered if you would be able to provide me with any information or merely your opinion on the matter. Any reply would be greatly appreciated.

Whoops, you may have ruined your A-levels there.

Ten points to Gryffindor for an Illuminati symbol right off the bat. This guy is an American conspiracy theorist - as a GCSE History student, this is a terrible source to copy from. Ignore the links, and it goes so well up until here:

Towns, cities and countryside that were once ruled by Socialist Germany, were now ruled by Communist Russia.

Before the end of WW2, Germany was FACSIST, not Socialist. Yes, while the NSDAP had the words 'Socialism' in their title and manifesto, socialism is left-wing, not far-right. So correction - "...that were once ruled by Nazi Germany, were now ruled as satellite by the Soviet Union".

Today in Moscow the leader of the USSR - Putin (a Russian Communist who used to be stationed in East Germany working for the STASI police spying on the German people and sending dissenters to prison, Siberia and elsewhereKGB) - is hosting the leaders of USA, France, Japan, China etc. And the Soviet Union's flag and colours - red, white and blue - are being saluted by the United States whose own flag is famously nicknamed "The Red, White and Blue".

If you're copying notes, stop now. This is a biased source. We know the GDR didn't have any bananas, but we don't need to know if you have any. Also, Putin worked for the KGB as a spy in general, not just spying on East Germans, and stop trying to bring up the USSR as modern-day Russia - there's a right-wing government in force. And just shut up about your silly conspiracy theories.

When the people of East Germany (and other countries taken over by the USSR after WWII) read Animal Farm and 1984 they fell totally in love with George Orwell (CITATION NEEDED) because they knew he understood the truth and was "telling it like it is".

I understand that Nineteen-Eighty-Four was Anti-Stalinist, and warned the world of the dangers of totaliarianism, but while exported as 'sazmidat' to the USSR, and lauded as accurate in former Eastern Bloc states, but I don't think it became that popular.

PS - I wasn't born until 1950 and have learned all my WWII history second-hand. My father, grandfather and other relatives risked their lives on the side of the Allies. But I remember I was quite shocked when I learned that the DEMOCRACIES (our side) had been on the same side as the COMMUNISTS, who were led by STALIN, the cruelest and biggest mass-murderer of the 20th century. He tortured, starved and worked to death over 20 million of his own people in the 22 years before WWII and in the six or so years after WWII until his death in 1953.

Important footnote here. Learning information second-hand is acceptable on various degrees - acreditted historians who weren't even born during those times, then there are the usual types we see on here. The moral? Don't let your conspiracy theories get mixed with your history essay?

Oh and PS, I hope that guy got his A-levels. Seriously, this is worryingly-biased info thst could cost him grades.

PPS: I'm not good at expressing stuff on the internet, honestly. Forgive me.