ABSTRACT

The idea behind it was the determination to extirpate any independent, liberal and unbiased way of thinking which might contain a germ of criticism directed against the rigime. Within a few months this aim was reached by levelling down intellectual standards on a wide front to the niveau of Rohm's Stormtroopers. This was partly achieved by inventing more and more Party organizations, all with specially designed (and mostly brown) uniforms. In this new country-wide equality there were, quite naturally, a few leaders and many more led; or, in the Orwellian phrase, 'All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."