“To be killed was what you expected. But before death, there was the routine confession that had to be gone through: the groveling on the floor and screaming for mercy, the crack of broken bones, the smashed teeth and bloody clots of hair… It was certain that by a given date, you would be dead.” (Orwell 87).

With similar means as violent as this, the secret police forces of totalitarian nations are able to keep the citizens well behaved and loyal to the party. The governments also have a monopoly of all weapons of mass destruction and guns. The dictators normally do not allow citizens to possess weapons so that, in case of a revolution, the government can quietly and easily put it down. Winston, the antagonist of 1984, thinks of the Thought Police and how many of the disappearances during the night were in fact suicides. He also brings to attention that “It needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick and certain poison, were quite unprocurable” (Orwell 86). Therefore, the fact that the common people do not possess weapons, keeps them under the control of the government because they cannot revolt due to scant chances of success.

Most totalitarian nations have been under the control of one party, which is led by a dictator. There is also an ideology “that addresses all aspects of life and the means to attain the final goal” (Bartleby). Citizens of a state are made to be entirely dependant upon the party and the leader of the party. In Germany, Hitler led members of the National Socialist group, also known as the Nazis. Zedong and Stalin led the communists in China and Russia. In 1984, the party of the totalit

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