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KGB defector predicted Russia-China realignment, like '1984' author - analysis
Golitsyn, Orwell considered previous split to be fake, but differ on end strategy
China's 180 degree turn from a heavily militarized border with Russia to joint military drills with them and “Long live friendship” slogans was predicted in George Orwell's cautionary tale 1984, as noted by Frontline News in “The new Russia-China alignment: Orwell's three super-states prediction in formation stage?"
Orwell, who based his prediction on an understanding that the Sino-Soviet split was a staged conflict which would conclude without a real war, was joined in his expectations by the highest ranking defector in Soviet history, Anatoliy Golitsyn.
https://frontline.news/post/kgb-defector-predicted-russia-china-realignment-analysis