Julia has a theory: that the Party lies a lot more than what Winston thinks. Of course, we know that the past has been falsified, destroyed. Everything has been altered, changed, nothing is true any more. But there more to it. Julia thinks that the bombs that are often hitting the city and killing hundreds of innocent people are not thrown by the enemy. She says that they are thrown by their own government, to make the people fear, and transform that fear into hatred to the country they are at war with. Propaganda, because the government is creating a false image of that superstate.
Later, in Goldestein's book, we learn that the three superstates are always at war, but in the same war. Any of the three superstates could conquer or dominate the other two, but there would be no point in that, there would be no advantage. The people in Oceania know nothing about the other states, they are not allowed to go in them, but they are told to hate the other states and their philosophy, because "they are not true". That is also propaganda. A group of people is forced to believe that another group of people is bad, or different, or horrible so that this first group of people can be controlled more easily. All that is done so that the Party achieves it's two main goals: conquer the entire surface of the Earth and extinguish any possibility of independent thought. If it achieves these goals, then the entire world will become a totalitarian state, where the Party truly has total power. It would not only be able to spy on every people of the society, but they will also be able to control their thoughts, because for now that is impossible. Another theory: Winston says that confessing is not a betrayal (talking to Julia, the conversation is from page 173-174), that when people are caught, they will always end up confessing, since the torture is too great. He says that making him stop loving her would be the real betrayal. Julia, however, says that the Party is not able to do that. "It's the one thing they can't do. They can make you say anything-anything- but they can't make you believe it." (page 174) They can make Winston say that he does not love Julia, and they can make Julia say that she does not love Winston, but as long as they don't believe their words, thy haven't betrayed each other.
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