"The phrase ""two plus two equals five"" (""2 + 2 = 5"") popularized by George Orwell is plausibly derived from what developmental policy of the erstwhile Soviet Union?"
Eugene Lyons outspoken account of events, "Assignment in Utopia," published in 1937. Lyons' writing directly influenced George Orwell. In his seminal novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", Orwell borrowed a chapter title from "Assignment in Utopia," "Two Plus Two Equals Five." Lyons recalled that this was a common slogan in the USSR during the drive to complete the first Five-Year Plan in just four years; Orwell adapted it as a metaphor for official totalitarian lying. Following his return from the Soviet Union, Lyons very briefly flirted with Trotskyism. Leon Trotsky himself initially praised "Assignment in Utopia" but later became quite critical of Lyons as he
2 + 2 = 5 2 + 2 = 5 The phrase "two plus two equals five" ("2 + 2 = 5") is a slogan used in many different forms of media, most notably in Part One, Chapter Seven of the book "1984" by George Orwell. In the novel, it is used as an example of an obviously false dogma that one may be required to believe, similar to other obviously false slogans promoted by the Party in the novel. Orwell's protagonist, Winston Smith, uses the phrase to wonder if the State might declare "two plus two equals five" as a fact; he ponders whether,