Claim: Nineteen Eighty-Four is dystopian.

A memory hole is any mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents , photographs , transcripts , or other records , such as from a website or other archive , particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that something never happened . The concept was first popularized by George Orwell 's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four , where the Party 's Ministry of Truth systematically re-created all potential historical documents , in effect , re-writing all of history to match the often-changing state propaganda . These changes were complete .