"'You are a flaw in the pattern, Winston. You are a stain that must be wiped out. Did I not tell you just now that we are different from the persecutors of the past?'" (255)
So many of the events at the Ministry of Love can be easily interpreted as really similar to Hitler's ideas of a perfect society. Orwell uses this moment to show the differences between the Party and Hitler and the Nazis. O'Brien even admits that they're quite unlike persecutors of the past, and that rather than killing every "flaw in the pattern", they essentially brainwash it to make them sane and normal. The idea of the brainwashing wouldn't seem as new as it does to the reader if Orwell hadn't made the clear difference between the actions of the Party and similar actions done in the past.
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