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Areljak t1_it8w2vd wrote

Reply to comment by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS in Does 1984 ever dive into how the Party took control over Oceania? [no direct spoilers please] by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS

Its pretty directly referencing Stalinism and applying it to the UK, some examples:

  • 2+2=5 was a stalinist propaganda slogan

  • The 180° turns in foreign policy and propaganda mirror similar turns in Soviet propaganda from being anti-german then suddenly pro-german following the signing to the Molotov-Ribbentrov pact to then switching suddenly back to anti-german following the German invasion in 1941.

  • The omnipresent Big Brother mirrors Stalin (although Hitler wasnot dissimilar)

  • Goldstein is Trotsky

...I recommend reading 1984 and then reading Child of the Revolution by Wolfgang Loenhard, an autobiographical account from a then young German on the periphery of party politics in the Soviet Union 1938-45 (before going back to Germany to build up the GDR to be to his defection in 1949), its a long book but well worth the read.

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