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"The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal." (263)

A lot of the actions committed by Big Brother and the Party are visibly similar to the Nazis and Hitler in World War II. Orwell even admits to this via bits of dialogue throughout the text. The difference between the two are clarified in this quote, and in the next few lines- "Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship." (263) - shows that the mindset is completely different. The Party has the master race idea completely figured out. Their idea of a master race, however, is more of a mindless, emotionless, conforming human being, and less of a physically perfect person. The Party's methods are far more thought out.

Works Cited:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_race

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