Orwell said he had used Stalin's dictatorship as a model for the personality cult of the all-seeing Big Brother, whose "thought police" force cowed citizens to engage in "doublethink" in order to believe that "War is peace, freedom is slavery".
The secretaries of ministries have been barred from serving as chairpersons and directors of the 16 state banks and financial institutions in the latest guideline from the finance ministry as the government looks to enhance corporate governance in the organisations.
A team of international scientists says that Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer or malnutrition, rejecting the official cause of death but not laying to rest one of the great mysteries of post-coup Chile.
Orwell said he had used Stalin's dictatorship as a model for the personality cult of the all-seeing Big Brother, whose "thought police" force cowed citizens to engage in "doublethink" in order to believe that "War is peace, freedom is slavery".
The secretaries of ministries have been barred from serving as chairpersons and directors of the 16 state banks and financial institutions in the latest guideline from the finance ministry as the government looks to enhance corporate governance in the organisations.
A team of international scientists says that Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer or malnutrition, rejecting the official cause of death but not laying to rest one of the great mysteries of post-coup Chile.
