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zelosyesterday at 10:16 AM0 repliesview on HN

It's been many years since I read 1984, but this seems wrong:

"To Orwell, it must have seemed that neither time nor fortune could budge Stalin, but that he would live on forever with ever increasing strength. - And that was how Orwell pictured Big Brother."

Wasn't the point in 1984 that Big Brother isn't real? So there was no central dictator, just the system.