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billymcfar 3 points ago +3 / -0

Political prisoner camps were loosely inspired by stalin’s gulags, and the role of Big Brother supposedly came from a quote by Lenin (something along the lines of “truth is what the communist party says”). History/memory warping (news speak) reconstructs reality for the citizens of Oceania, and their emotions are also manipulated to benefit the party and support their totalitarian agenda (2 minutes of hate/spies). All of which plays into the worship theme you mentioned above. Although i didn’t reference Nazi Germany, hopefully this connects to your research relative to 1984; coincidentally just read this for a course last week so felt obligated to add something to the discussion haha