"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
"Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles."
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Source: George Orwell (2005). “In defence of English cooking”, Penguin Hardcover
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