When Winston asks " Does Big Brother exist the same way I do ? " ( meaning is Big Brother an actual human being ), O'Brien replies " You do not exist " ( meaning that Smith is now an unperson; an example of doublethink ).
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It denotes an attitude and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past, including the " unperson " a person whose past existence is expunged from the public record and memory, practised by modern repressive governments.
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The fact that he got indefinitely banned for that, and is still being treated as an unperson months later, is just a sign of the punitive vindictiveness some on Wikipedia show toward anybody who stumbled onto their raw nerves . talk ) 17 : 33, 17 December 2007 ( UTC)
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In the final scene, Winston returns to the Chestnut Tree Caf? where he had previously seen the rehabilitated thought criminals Jones, Aaronson and Rutherford ( themselves once prominent but later disgraced members of the Inner Party ) who have since been " vaporized " and rendered " unpersons ".
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Rushdie's letter was " vile, " shot back le Carre, an edict from his " throne " proclaiming that " our cause is absolute, it brooks no dissent or qualification; whoever questions it is by definition an ignorant pompous, semi-literate unperson ."
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In the meantime Pierce, with no money or mail, will have to remain, in Pratt's words, an " unperson . " In a fit of anger, Hawkeye decides to accept his fate and Henry's respective departures, Hawkeye argues that the wounded will keep coming whether he's there or not.
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Even though for the rest of the Soviet Union Beria was declared an " enemy of the people ", relegated to " unperson " status and excluded from the 30-volumed Great Soviet Encyclopedia, he remains a highly revered figure within the off-limits structure of the 12th GU MO, and especially within its scientific research institutions.
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An oversighter could declare a user an " unperson ", block them, oversight the block log, and oversight their edits, and there would be no way for an ordinary user to tell this from someone who's created an account but never used it .-- talk ) 19 : 51, 22 July 2008 ( UTC)
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:: : : : : With the Durova scandal in full heat, it's time for everybody to re-examine policies and attitudes where the punitive and vindictive activity of seeking out people to ban and then treating them like Orwellian Unpersons takes precedence over building an encyclopedia . talk ) 20 : 04, 25 November 2007 ( UTC)
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The protagonist Winston Smith, a member of the Outer Party, works in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth as an editor, party line and deleting references to " unpersons ", people who have been " vaporised, " i . e ., not only killed by the state but denied existence even in history or memory.
