Big Brother

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

Big Brother is a character and symbol in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is ostensibly the leader of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate wherein the ruling party, Ingsoc, wields total power for its own sake over the inhabitants.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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