According to George Orwell, there’s a simple reason authoritarian cultural campaigns can’t last: They assume that history can be “created rather than learned,” he wrote in a 1947 Atlantic essay , and this produces superficial literature, unstable and fleeting. By contrast, free societies promote “intellectual liberty” and the belief that “a correct knowledge of history is valuable as a matter of course.” Their art lasts because it has depth, and it has depth because it has truth. Take Soviet