s, and their hearts belonged to Adolf Hitler"(Heyes, 42). The Russian people were struggling against their leader and each other, they were scared into believing and doing everything Joseph Stalin said, otherwise they could get turned in because "Informers were encouraged to turn on their neighbors, friends, and family members for a reward of one fourth the victims' property"(Otfinoski, 74). The Russian people knew that if they didn't conform to what Stalin perceived they should be then they ran the risk of having themselves or their families executed so they obeyed; because of this most people of Russia were what the planner (Stalin) thought they were.
             According to Percy a person can lose their sovereignty two ways, "The thing is twice lost to the consumer. First sovereignty is lost: it is theirs not his. Second, it is radically devalued by theory," (Bartholomae & Petrosky, 577). If this idea by Percy is true, then Winston has not lost his sovereignty because what are the Party's ideas are not Winston's own, he knows what they say
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