In a distant nation, only until recently led by a totalitarian madman who may or may not have had weapons of mass destruction, bent on killing millions of his own people as well as his enemies, savaged by war against a relentless coalition of Allies, reconstruction and efforts to bring a democracy seem grim.
In other words, George Orwell looks at Germany in 1945, as World War II was ending.
UPDATE: See also these magazine articles from the same period.
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