A Comparison Of Stalin And Big Brother In 1984

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Joseph Stalin, born Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili, was a totalitarian ruler of the Soviet Union from the 1920’s until his death in 1953. Stalin started his rise to power as General Secretary of the Communist Party. After the death of dictator Vladimir Lenin, he became the Soviet dictator. Stalin’s reign of terror, lasting over two decades, included thorough surveillance brainwashing of his countrymen which resulted in the deaths of millions of people. Just as Stalin left his mark as a totalitarian menace, so did Big Brother in George Orwell’s dystopian world of Oceania in his novel 1984. Stalin and Big Brother instilled fear upon their conglomerates by means of surveillance, propaganda, media control, sovereignty, and murder in order to remain in complete control of their countries. The two dictators had one focal, barbaric idea in common: the ability to access and control …show more content…

They were firm believers in the idea that “WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” (1.1.6).
Stalin and Big Brother both belong to two separate but very similar parties. The aims of both parties mirror each other in many ways: “The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought”(CITE). Stalin and Big Brother both focused their attention on complete and utter control of their own people. Just as Stalin uses ample resources to find a way to access and destroy independant thought, so does Big Brother by creating the thought police, spies, etc. The constant war against independent thought in the novel 1984 corresponds to the actions of USSR led by Stalin in the mid 1900’s. Joseph Stalin was a firm believer in communism that is a system in which “all

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