>>>>>Sure, if your brushing away pimples and such it is common. But for a cigarette?
>>>>>Wasn't that part of the real culture back then? Why are they trying to hide it?
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>>>>Oh I see - the Beatles picture was to remove a ciagrette? Very sad commentary on the state of our society and the power of the PC Movement.
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>>>Comrade Smoker was vaporized. He is a nonperson. He never existed.
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>>Ahh, so we imported the "best" features of the USSR. And we do them better than they ever did.
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>I beg to differ. Nineteen eighty-four wasn't modelled exactly on Stalin's propaganda. It was modelled on the behavior of the British government during WWII. Orwell's knowledge of Stalin's dealings in Spanish Civil War only helped him to round it up.
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>And while Stalin relied on system of citizens spying citizens, and keeping government's hand tightly gripping the media, here it's completely different.

wasn't there a proposed program to recruit more internal intelligence assets in the US after 911, postmen (and women) and the like who would alert homeland security or someone of citizens who act suspiciously.
~M