* All this sounds very Zionist, and with good reason: Orwell, without being able, in 1948, to clearly designate the Jews (which is why Smith's reading is interrupted when he discovers the "secret of secrets"), has very skillfully indicated the origin of the problem - not only by the famous Goldstein/O'Brien name change, demanded by the publisher (as well as the modification of the original title," Last Man in Europa", a direct allusion to the Führer's final injunction : "to the last man"), but above all by a brief note in which, in an appendix, he explains that the "ancient Hebrews" are the inventors of the "double thought", the basis of Christianity, Communism and the "angsoc": "What was asked of the members of the Party was a view analogous to that of the ancient Hebrews, who knew - and knew little else - that all nations other than their own worshipped "false gods". They knew Jehovah and his commandments. They knew, therefore, that all gods who had other names and attributes were false gods. »