Although it is thought that the dictatorship of communism was perished with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the monster is still alive. One may find it strange that the symbolic world that George Orwell depicted in \u201c1984\u201d is still practiced in some communities. As a former member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO\/ MEK\/ PMOI\/ the Cult of Rajavi), the book might astonish you with the huge similarity of the real world inside the MKO and the fictional world in Oceania \u2013 the fictional country in the book.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was in Turkey in 1992 when a friend recommended me reading \u201c1984\u201d of George Orwell,\u201d writes Mehdi Khoshal, ex-member of the MKO.
\n\u201cI read the book three times in six months because it was very similar to the situation inside the Cult of Rajavi that I had personally experienced.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nCreating the fictional world of a dictatorship in 1984, George Orwell coined some words and expressions that are called \u2018Orwellian\u2019, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as \u201cCharacteristic or suggestive of the writings of George Orwell, esp. of the totalitarian state depicted in his dystopian account of the future, Nineteen Eighty-four\u201d.<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s the dystopian substance of Oceania which fits so accurately with the Mujahedin Khalq Organization. It is 2019 and members of the MKO are living in an Oceania-like world. This means that ruling system in Oceania is not only a government but also a life style that removes individuality from human beings and make them follow the community and its ruler.
\nThe parallel of the term \u201cBig Brother\u201d\u2014referring to the absolute leader of Oceania\u2014is \u201cBrother Massoud\u201d<\/strong> referring to the co-leaders of the MKO.<\/p>\nUsing the terms brother or sister is a successful attempt to diminish the notion of family in the minds of members of the community. Big Brother and Brother Massoud neglect the identity of members. Under their rule, mother and father are taboos. Members should revolt against the opposite sex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
According to the symbolic world that George Orwell creates in \u201cAnimal Farm\u201d and \u201c1984\u201d, totalitarians can be communists, fascists or terrorist extremist like ISIS and the MKO. The leaders of the MKO were the leftist Islamists in 1970s but turned out to extremist cultists who rule their rank and file by their propaganda that launches lie, hatred, war and hypocrisy among the public.
\nGeorge Orwell also created the word \u201cdoublethink\u201d in his dystopian novel. \u201cDoublethink is the act of holding, simultaneously, two opposite, individually exclusive ideas or opinions and believing in both simultaneously and absolutely\u201d, based on Oxford dictionary.
\nIn \u201c1984\u201d, the three slogans of the party \u2014”War Is Peace; Freedom Is Slavery; Ignorance Is Strength”\u2014 are obvious examples of doublethink. The act of doublethink also occurs in more subtle details throughout the novel. In the MKO, members are called \u201cfreedom fighters\u201d but they are not free. They are not allowed to leave the group. They are called \u201cunique gems\u201d but they bear sever verbal and physical abuses under brainwashing programs imposed by the group leaders everyday.
\nThe novel explicitly shows people learning doublethink and newspeak due to peer pressure and a desire to”fit in”, or gain status within the Party\u2014to be seen as a loyal Party Member. In the novel, for someone to even recognize\u2014let alone mention\u2014any contradiction within the context of the Party line was akin to blasphemy, and could subject that person to disciplinary action and to the instant social disapproval of fellow Party Members. This is exactly what the MKO members have been enduring in their everyday life at least for the past three decades. Amir Yaghmaiee who once has been one of the MKO militia recently recounted the very contradictions he experienced inside the MKO. He ultimately could manage to leave the group after the American invasion of Iraq. He was under a 24-hour-long brainwashing session just because he had declared his willingness to leave the group. [link of the video]<\/a>
\n1984 demonstrates the rule of ignorance instead of the rule of wisdom. Isolation and brainwashing of members of the community leads to the ignorance of the public opinion. In Oceania, technology in form of telescreens and televisions brainwashes people. In the MKO, the group\u2019s satellite TV and its websites together with the bots in the social media deviate the realities, cover the truth and launch misinformation.
\nBig brother is alive even if brother Massoud is dead. Brother Massoud is a notion that rules the minds of victims of the MKO.
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