In chapter 4 of the prophetic book ‘1984’ by George Orwell (1) we can read about the profession that the main character in the book, Winston Smith, has in that society which is headed by Big Brother in an extreme surveillance society (2). His task is to ‘rectify’ information from older newspapers and magazines, which turned out to be incorrect. The old issues of reports were consequently removed from the archives and replaced with the new rectified version thereby altering the ‘truth’ of what happened (see 3 for a telling example).

On January 24, 2024 a very unfortunate event took place near the Russian town of Belgorod. A Russian military plane carrying 65 Ukrainian Prisoners of War was accidentally downed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The way this was reported is reminiscent of the way Winston Smith in Orwell’s book had to alter the reality to make it fit the desired perspective.

Below you can see the first variant in the Kyiv Post which states that the Ukrainian Armed Forces took responsibility for the plane crash; a bit later a significant change was made as you can see in the second headline: they removed the part that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were responsible.

Below is a video that depicts the boarding of the Prisoners of Wars to the Russian military plane, which would later be shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

In June 2024 an investigative committee concluded that the Russian plane carrying Ukrainian POWs was downed by US-made missile (6)

FOOTNOTES
(1) Orwell, G. (1950) 1984
(2) Surveillance Society – Laura Aboli Archive
(3) Here’s a part from the original book (1) which clearly describes the ways that dystopian society disregards facts and falsifies everything to fit the desired narrative.

“The messages he had received referred to articles or news items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, as the official phrase had it, to rectify. For
example, it appeared from the Times of the seventeenth of March that Big Brother, in his speech of the previous day, had predicted that the South Indian front would remain quiet
but that a Eurasian offensive would shortly be launched in North Africa.

As it happened, the Eurasian Higher Command had launched its offensive in South India and left North Africa alone. It wat therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother’s speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened. Or again, the Times of the nineteenth of December had published the official forecasts of the output of various classes of consumption goods in the fourth quarter of 1983, which was also the sixth quarter of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. Today’s issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong. Winston’s job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones. (1, p.32)

(4) Alex Christoforou on X: “Before and after screen grabs. New narratvie, via KyivPost: Ukrainska Pravda’s sources in the Armed Forces have confirmed the plane crash. Additionally, insiders from the General Staff told UP that the plane was carrying missiles intended for the S-300 air defence system.… https://t.co/240kx7d2id” / X (twitter.com)
(5) Inessa S on Telegram
(6) Russian plane carrying Ukrainian POWs was downed by US-made missile – investigators