POLICE STATE U.K./" YOU ARE OLD, GRANDPA ARIEL!"
The popular perception of an archetypical police state: Oceania in George Orwell’s “ 1984”, is dangerously misleading, for despite, for example, Soviet Russia and East Germany having borne no resemblance to Oceania, they were nonetheless police states. It’s not what’s on the label, but what’s in the box that counts. To “ qualify ” as a police state, a nation must embody most, or all, of its defining characteristics; some of which are:- 1. Detention without trial, and the use of violence and... Sign in to see full entry.