Who Controls the Past Controls the Present

In this chatper it explains how the Party has the people under such mental confusion that they are terrified to even think about their own past without being paranoid of being convicted of a thought crime, which Raymond has explained in the previous post. In example, Winston was absoutely sure that Oceania, even though currently allianced with Eastasia, that only a few years back it was at war with the country. But, since no written or spoken history had been left since that happened he couldn't prove it. Winston thinking this would be considered the highest treason so most likly no one else would, or should, be thinking this. Even the idea that in the past people were able to speak freely, write freely and not be watched was considered ludicrous. I can predict that after the stretches are finished he will go to work and completle the viciously controlled circle of his life.