Damn good year.
“Totalitarianism is no ordinary dictatorship. A typical dictator is like a gangster; he rules by force for his personal profit and that of his supporters. He interferes in peoples’ lives only to protect himself and to exploit them. A totalitarian dictator wants more; actually, he wants everything. His goal is to remake his people by controlling all they do, think, and feel. In effect, they can have no privacy, no conscience, no life outside the system.”1 This was Joseph Stalin. Without a doubt he was a totalitarian dictator. He was a vicious and ruthless leader with no sympathy at all. Stalin was born Josif Visarionovich Djugashvili, but later changed his name to Stalin, which literally means man of steel in order to show that in his own mind he was as strong as steel. 2 He was constantly manipulating the people around him to get what he wanted, but manipulation works in two ways. When a person manipulates, they themselves become aware of the power of manipulation, and therein become worried about being manipulated.