George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He’d Write 1984: "...these things are on the increase. Hitler, no doubt, will soon disappear, but only at the expense of strengthening (a) Stalin, (b) the Anglo-American millionaires and (c) all sorts of petty fuhrers. All the national movements everywhere seem to take non-democratic forms, to group themselves round some superhuman fuhrer and to adopt the theory that the end justifies the means."