<P> A department of the Ministry of Plenty is charged with organizing state lotteries . These are very popular among the proles, who buy tickets and hope to win the big prizes--a completely vain hope as the big prizes are in fact not awarded at all, the Ministry of Truth participating in the scam and publishing every week the names of non-existent big winners . </P> <P> In the Michael Radford film adaptation, the ministry is renamed the Ministry of Production, or MiniProd . </P> <P> The Ministry of Truth (Newspeak: Minitrue) is the ministry of propaganda . As with the other ministries in the novel, the name Ministry of Truth is a misnomer because in reality it serves the opposite: it is responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events . </P> <P> As well as administering truth, the ministry spreads a new language amongst the populace called Newspeak, in which, for example, "truth" is understood to mean statements like 2 + 2 = 5 when the situation warrants . In keeping with the concept of doublethink, the ministry is thus aptly named in that it creates / manufactures "truth" in the Newspeak sense of the word . The book describes the doctoring of historical records to show a government - approved version of events . </P>

What is the ministry of truth in 1984