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George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose wartime BBC career influenced his creation of Oceania. What is known of the society, politics and economics of Oceania, and its rivals, comes from the in-universe book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, a literary device Orwell uses to connect the past and present of 1984. [1]
In 1984, there is a perpetual war between Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, the superstates that emerged from the global atomic war. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, by Emmanuel Goldstein, explains that each state is so strong that it cannot be defeated, even with the combined forces of two superstates, despite changing ...
"THE COLDEST WAR; Frozen in Fury on the Roof of the World". The New York Times. Siachen: Conflict Without End by V.R. Raghavan; Myra MacDonald (2008) Heights of Madness: One Woman's Journey in Pursuit of a Secret War, Rupa, New Delhi ISBN 81-291-1292-2. The first full account of the Siachen war to be told from the Indian and Pakistani sides.
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Sarajevo hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics, but a decade later, terrible conflict ravaged much of the city and killed thousands of civilians.
Part of the Sri Lankan Civil War Sri Lanka: Tamil Tigers: 1983 1986 1983–1986 Kurdish rebellions in Iraq Part of the Iran–Iraq War and the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict: Iraq: KDP PUK: 1983 1983 United States invasion of Grenada United States Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Dominica Jamaica Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Grenada Cuba ...
The 15 August 1984 PKK attacks, which were led by Mahsum Korkmaz (known as "Agit"), [1] marked the start of the last phase of Kurdish–Turkish conflict. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] Since the PKK's second party Congress, which was held from 20 to 25 August 1982 in Daraa , Syria, it was decided that the PKK would start preparing for an insurgency inside Turkey.