Who is Joseph Stalin?

was published just
after World War II, and it is set in Oceania, a totalitarian state much like those seen in
Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union. Big Brother is very much like Hitler, Mussolini, and
Stalin, the dictators of those countries. Stalin was known for his purges where he would round
up innocent people and murder them, much like Big Brother's "vaporization" of
Oceania's citizens. There is no doubt thatuses Stalin and his tyrranical practices as a model
for his novel.