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George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 topped the list of Russian bestsellers in 2022 According to statistics from the Russian online store LitRes, a book about a totalitarian dictatorship inspired by the Soviet Union under Stalin is the most popular book in the Fiction section and the second most downloaded book in all categories. Perhaps Orwell's work owes its popularity among Russians to Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, who previously stated that it turns out that the whole world was wrong, but in fact the novel describes the dangers of Western liberalism, not totalitarianism.