Ministries of Nineteen Eighty-Four nature of their society. Perpetual warfare also "helps preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs." Since that means the balance of the country rests in the war, the Ministry of Peace is in charge of fighting the war (mostly centered around Africa and India), but making sure to never tip the scales, in case the war should become one-sided. Oceanic telescreens usually broadcast news reports about how Oceania is continually winning every battle it fights, though these reports have little to no credibility. As with all the other "Nineteen Eighty-Four" ministries, the Ministry of Peace is named
2 + 2 = 5 enthusiasm of the workers=5". Stalin declared the plan a success at the beginning of 1933, noting the creation of several heavy industries. George Orwell may have been influenced by this poster. George Orwell had used this concept before publishing "Nineteen Eighty-Four" in 1949. During his career at the BBC, he became familiar with the methods of Nazi propaganda. In his essay "Looking Back on the Spanish War", published in 1943 (six years before the publication of "Nineteen Eighty-Four"), Orwell wrote: In the view of most of Orwell's biographers, the main source for this was "Assignment in Utopia" by Eugene Lyons,