Along with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the first and most cited works of dystopian fiction to have appeared in English literature. The book has been translated into many languages. Nineteen Eighty-Four has become a byword in discussions of privacy issues. The term "Orwellian" has come to describe actions or organizations that are thought to be reminiscent of the society depicted in the novel.
Chess used this as a cite to quote Marshal Hermann Goring saying it came from the Nuremberg trails. Is this why liberals have a hard time telling truth from fiction?