Real Life Newspeak

What if some dictatorship like Stalinist Russia or North Korea had delibrately created a new language based off the old one to diminish the range of anti-governmental thought?
 
Yes, he truly is. I wonder what would happen if Orwell was killed in the Spanish Civil war?

Fascist sniper's bullet flies a hair's width to the left or right. Orwell's jugular vein is severed and he dies in the trench. He's remembered for Down and Out in Paris and London, along with a couple of interesting novels and a handful of essays. Doesn't get a chance to formulate and define his politics -- but that doesn't matter, 'cause every political stripe claims him as their own IOTL. We miss out on Homage to Catalonia, Coming up for Air, Animal Farm and 1984, along with a lot of really-quite-good essays.

If he's remembered, it'll be as a confused anti-imperialist, who did the decent thing and got his head blown off for it.

As for the original post, we already have newspeak of a sort. We have highly-emotive terms used to describe views that the speaker disagrees with. That's not newspeak, but it does fit in with the concept of hate-on-command that you'll find in a lot of Orwell's later work.
 
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Klemperer The Langauage of Third Reich http://books.google.com/books?id=kwsleqxx_SMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0
As for North Korean Newspeak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language_North-South_differences#Vocabulary
Soviet Russian was not that different from, say, prerevolutionary Russian or emigres' Russian, but I could remember, for example, word "partiia" (political party) with main meaning "Communist Party of Soviet Union". Of course, Soviet people knew about non-Communist parties of the West (or even Eastern Europe), schoolchildren were taught about non-Communist ("counterrevolutionary", "bourgeois") parties of Russian Empire, but that was auxiliary meaning, requiring explanation. Another example: standard Soviet phrase on monuments to Second World War dead reads "To heroes, fallen for freedom and independence of Motherland". Obviously, "freedom" in that phrase meant something different from "freedom", as it is understood now.
So, attempts to create "Newspeak" were made and are made, but Orwellian level of language mutation is beyond wildest dreams of existing dictatorships.
 
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