1984 #8

“There were the German Nazis and the Russian Communists” (pg. 254). Orwell compares his created government with those of the German Nazis and Russian Communists in the early to middle nineteen hundreds. The Nazis were a dictatorship who believed in an ultimate race. They experimented on people in concentration camps, similar to the Inner Party of Big Brother’s government in the Ministry of Love. The Russian Communists, under Joseph Stalin, became a totalitarian government; every citizen and party member were dominated by the dictatorship. Orwell’s comparison to these two situations makes the novel more realistic and believable: these things have actually happened before.

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