"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."

I posted this quote because I see parallel between what Orwell says here and today's Iran.  As I have mentioned on various occasions and in various blogs--I find some of the most rabid propagandists of the Islamic Republic to be Iranian women.  Examples are abound, but Soraya Sepahpour and Leila Zand immediately come to mind.  It's a very peculiar phenomenon, considering that women in Iran are the biggest victims of the Islamic Republic's gender apartheid state.  Stockholm Syndrome could be one explanation.