Soviet Russia, the BBC and other UK socialist schemes, the sudden reversal of socialist feeling about the Nazis when they broke their alliance with Stalin, as well as the whole post-war rationing thing in the UK. Plus a nice dash of dystopian worldbuilding.

But feminists on the left claiming that all men are evil oppressors, and that PIV is bad? Nothing at all to do with the Anti-Junior-Sex League, comrades. That's totally the religious right. And we've always been at war with Eastasia.

Soviet Russia, the BBC and other UK socialist schemes, as well as the whole post-war rationing thing in the UK. Plus a nice dash of dystopian worldbuilding, of course.