"The organized lying practiced by totalitarian states is not, as is sometimes claimed, a temporary expedient of the same nature as military deception. It is something integral to totalitarianism, something that would still continue even if concentration camps and secret police forces had ceased to be necessary."
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1947/03/the-prevention-of-literature/655342/